Firefox Usage Passes 15 Percent in US - Go Baby Go
Mozilla's Firefox browser continues to post gains in market share, according to Web analytics firm OneStat.com, while usage of Internet Explorer has fallen more than 2 percent since May. Opera, meanwhile, has surpassed 1 percent market share worldwide.
Worldwide, Firefox now holds 12.93 percent of the market, up from 11.79 percent in May. The open source browser commands a 15.82 percent usage share in the United States, and a whopping 39.02 percent in Germany. Australians are also big Firefox users, with the browser holding 24.23 percent of the market down under.
Internet Explorer use worldwide has fallen below 80 percent in the United States to 79.78 percent, according to OneStat, although IE still accounts for 83.05 percent of the browser market globally. British Web surfers are the biggest IE users, giving Microsoft's browser 86.23 percent of the market.
Opera, which recently launched version 9.0 of its now-free namesake browser, continues to inch up the rankings. Usage of Opera is 4.69 percent in Australia and over 1 percent in Canada and Germany. Worldwide, Opera accounts for exactly 1 percent of the browser market, OneStat says.
Apple's Safari retained its number three position behind IE and Firefox, accounting for 1.84 percent of the browser market around the world. In the United States, where Apple primarily focuses, Safari holds a usage share of 3.28 percent. AOL's Netscape, which is now based on Firefox, is the fifth top browser with a 0.16 percent share.
The browser race is expected to heat up again later this year. Both Mozilla and Microsoft hope to have new versions of their browsers -- Firefox 2.0 and IE7 -- released to the public by the end of 2006. In the past, Mozilla has been able to successfully use its new browser releases as opportunities to expand market share.
W3Counter: Internet Explorer 67%, Firefox 25% as of July 8, 2006
Just read a report about the market share of web browsers from W3Counter: Internet Explorer 67% (IE6 66% + IE7 1%), Firefox 25% (FF1.5 21% + FF1.0 4%), it looks that Firefox is doing very well.
You can also find that the majority screen resolution is 1024 x 768 or above, that means we should design our web pages layout based on 1024 x 768 instead of 800x600.
This report shows statistics aggregated across all active websites tracked by W3Counter. It was last generated on July 8, 2006 based on an analysis of 1,022,601 distinct visits across 1,177 websites.
Web Browsers |
Screen Resolutions | |||||
| Web Browser | % | Screen Resolution | % | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Internet Explorer 6.0 | 66% | 1 | 1024x768 | 54% | |
| 2 | Firefox 1.5 | 21% | 2 | 1280x1024 | 16% | |
| 3 | Firefox 1.0 | 4% | 3 | 800x600 | 11% | |
| 4 | Internet Explorer 7.0 | 1% | 4 | 1280x800 | 5% | |
| 5 | Safari 2.0 | 1% | 5 | 1152x864 | 4% | |
| 6 | Opera 8.5 | <1% | 6 | 1440x900 | 1% | |
| 7 | Opera 9.0 | <1% | 7 | 1400x1050 | 1% | |
| 8 | Mozilla 1.7 | <1% | 8 | 1680x1050 | 1% | |
| 9 | Internet Explorer 5.5 | <1% | 9 | 1600x1200 | 1% | |
| 10 | Safari 1.3 | <1% | 10 | 1280x768 | 1% | |
I reference part of the report here for your convenience, please see W3Counter for more details.
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