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Firefox Passes IE6 In Market Share

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Re: Firefox Passes IE6 In Market Share

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Post by aodhan »

dcurtis wrote: post #18
JoelSutherland wrote: post #4

According to StatCounter. It's numbers are much different from the other big players (Net Applications, Alexa etc.): http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/statcounter_launches_gl...

Their numbers for Safari are hilariously wrong; they suggest Opera has a bigger share (at 1.9%). Considering all other metrics seem to indicate Safari has a 3-6% share now, this leads me to question all of their other numbers.

Hi,

Thanks for the comment. StatCounter tracks over 10 billion pageviews monthly from across the entire world. The current global stats are based on a sample of 4 billion monthly page views from it (to be expanded shortly!).

There are very few other web stat providers out there who would have anywhere close to that reach we have. The ones that are currently providing global stats would be very us-centric and if you check our US stats they will more closely match them.

http://gs.statcounter.com/#browser-US-daily-20080701-2009030...

I hope that helps.

Aodhan Cullen

StatCounter

Re: Firefox Passes IE6 In Market Share

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Post by anatoli »

aasarava wrote: post #17

Does anyone know where to get current stats on IE5.0 and IE5.5 use? I'm guessing it's below 1% if you look at a wide variety of "general use" sites, like portals and news, but it'd be great to have some solid data on that -- especially to show to clients who request that their sites support it.

Microsoft dropped support for IE5.0 and IE5.5 on their websites. I think that's a sufficient argument right there. :) Haven't had anyone argue with that so far...

Re: Firefox Passes IE6 In Market Share

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Post by GavinB »

axod wrote: post #12
chairface wrote: post #11

The title seems a little triumphant for my tastes - wouldn't it arguably be more accurate as "IE6 dips below Firefox in market share"?

"dip" implies it may recover. I'm pretty skeptical that we'll see a resurgence of IE6 usage.

IE6 is like vinyl, man. It's a timeless classic. The pages just look better through it, like they did when I was a kid!

Re: Firefox Passes IE6 In Market Share

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Post by electromagnetic »

alecst wrote: post #3

Forgive me for being that guy , but: > Please don't do things to make titles stand out, like using uppercase or exclamation points, or adding a parenthetical remark saying how great an article is. It's implicit in submitting something that you think it's important. From: http://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Be that guy more often; HN needs all the help it can get to keep it in the environment we all came here for. Just like we clean up trash to keep our gardens clean, we have to clean up some titles and comments from time to time.

Re: Firefox Passes IE6 In Market Share

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Post by aasarava »

anatoli wrote: post #22
aasarava wrote: post #17

Does anyone know where to get current stats on IE5.0 and IE5.5 use? I'm guessing it's below 1% if you look at a wide variety of "general use" sites, like portals and news, but it'd be great to have some solid data on that -- especially to show to clients who request that their sites support it.

Microsoft dropped support for IE5.0 and IE5.5 on their websites. I think that's a sufficient argument right there. :) Haven't had anyone argue with that so far...

Thanks for that info -- definitely a helpful bit of ammo.

Would still love to see some stats from a general pool, though, if anyone knows where to find them. You could argue that just because MS stopped supporting the versions doesn't mean there aren't people who just can't figure out how to upgrade or don't know they need to out there. Knowing that that number is some trivial percent would be very helpful.

Barring that, maybe the argument can be strengthened if Google and Yahoo have also dropped support. Will check it out.

Re: Firefox Passes IE6 In Market Share

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Post by anatoli »

aasarava wrote: post #26
anatoli wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Microsoft dropped support for IE5.0 and IE5.5 on their websites. I think that's a sufficient argument right there. :) Haven't had anyone argue with that so far...

Thanks for that info -- definitely a helpful bit of ammo. Would still love to see some stats from a general pool, though, if anyone knows where to find them. You could argue that just because MS stopped supporting the versions doesn't mean there aren't people who just can't figure out how to upgrade or don't know they need to out there. Knowing that that number is some trivial percent would be very helpful. Barring t…

Not sure about Google, but Yahoo dropped IE5 and IE5.5 support long, long time ago.
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