Saturday, January 2, 2010 10:52:00 PM
stats, browser stats, net applications, hitslink
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Net Applications reports an
increase in market share for both Opera Mini and Opera (desktop) in December 2009. What's odd is that Opera for desktop is reported as having a market share of 2.40%, while Opera Mini has a mere 0.53%.
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Wednesday, March 4, 2009 11:32:18 AM
stats, statcounter, opera, net applications
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With more and more of Net Applications's
dirty secrets being dug up all the time, other stats companies are taking the opportunity to speak up and try to gather a following. One of them,
StatCounter, has apparently been doing stats since 1999, but they don't seem to be quoted much by the media.
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Friday, December 12, 2008 12:58:45 PM
stats, browser stats, opera, net applications
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Now that Google have announced that Chrome has reached
10 million users worldwide and our
quarterly reports report the number of active Opera desktop users, we can actually compare these numbers to various browser stats.
Since I've been writing a lot about Net Applications lately, let's take a look at how they are doing. According to them,
Opera's market share is 0.71%, and
Chrome is at 0.83% for November.
If the numbers reported by Chrome and ourselves are accurate, Opera has three times more users than Google worldwide. However, Net Applications reports that Chrome actually has a higher market share.
Food for thought.
Congratulations to Google, by the way, for the official release of Chrome!
Wednesday, December 3, 2008 12:56:55 PM
browser stats, opera, net applications, stats
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In an article at "The Industry Standard", Net Applications apparently
admit that their numbers are skewed. More specifically, they admit that they are skewed towards certain regions of the world (US-centric, anyone?). In such an amazing moment of honesty, I wonder why they didn't also admit to actively
editing their own statistics.
Update: Their claim to be skewed towards Europe doesn't really match
XiTi Monitor's statistics for Europe. This would indicate that Net Applications is
heavily skewed towards the US.
Thursday, September 4, 2008 7:13:29 PM
browser stats, net applications, chrome, hitslink
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I was curious to see how the uptake of Google's Chrome browser would be, considering that they were promoting it on their front page. I looked it up on a
special page set up by Net Applications to track Chrome usage before I left for work. It seemed to do pretty well, as it climbed above 1%, passing Opera's alleged market share. Not really surprising considering the massive media coverage it was getting.
When I got back later and reloaded the page, I noticed that it had gone down to 0.5% or so the last few hours. I still left the page open, and returned a little later. To my surprise, the page was no longer showing the same numbers for the same time. It's as if it had never shown 0.5%.
I tried to get my hands on a cached copy of the page to make sure that it wasn't just a mistake on my part, and indeed, it was not. Apparently Net Applications decided to change the numbers after they had been published.
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Thursday, November 22, 2007 9:08:03 AM
stats, browser
In its
"Browsers barometer" for september 2007, XiTi Monitor points to Firefox usage in Europe stabilizing. Opera isn't mentioned at all, but back in July, they
referred to Opera with a single sentence:
Opera arrives in 3rd, far behind Firefox, with a visit share of 3.5%.
What's interesting if you look at the stats is that a certain European country where Opera is doing rather well is missing. Where is Russia?
People may not be aware of this, but Opera is doing pretty well in Russia. In fact, some Russian stats suggest that
Opera may have more users than Firefox (
July stats). Whether this is the case or not is not that important (and as we know, browser stats are highly unreliable), but it is rather interesting that this particular country is left out, as if it wasn't part of Europe at all!
Rather than malicious intent on XiTi Monitor's part, my guess is that the data they are using is as crappy as everyone else's, and that they are based purely on sites that choose to use their services. And no one in Russia does, apparently. The same goes for a few other countries, according to the blanks on their map (including Iceland, our CEO's country of origin). If I am not mistaken, Opera does rather well in Belarus as well, and some stats pointed to more Opera users than Firefox users over there.
What I don't get is how XiTi Monitor can refer to "browser usage in Europe" when they are probably just referring to a tiny subset of European sites that use their services. So not only are their browser stats misleading (like everyone else's), but their claims are as well.
My Opera
(27%)
