{"id":4532,"date":"2011-12-27T09:21:39","date_gmt":"2011-12-26T22:21:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelwyres.com\/?p=4532"},"modified":"2011-12-27T09:21:39","modified_gmt":"2011-12-26T22:21:39","slug":"browser-update-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/2011\/12\/browser-update-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"Browser Update 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"

With just a few days left in 2011, I’ve taken a moment to have a look at the web statistics for this site, with a view to having a look at how the ongoing browser wars are travelling. <\/p>\n

In March, I had a look at how things had been over the previous six months<\/a>, and found that Google Chrome<\/a> was emerging as the big winner over that period.<\/p>\n

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I was, however, curious to have a look at a bigger picture over the last four years for which I have detailed statistics – and while it has slipped a lot, Microsoft’s Internet Explorer<\/a> isn’t quite dead yet.<\/p>\n

The following table shows the annual percentage of hits on this site since 2008, that have originated from browsers identifying themselves as Internet Explorer, Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox<\/a>, or Apple Safari<\/a> – the four main browsers in the marketplace these days:<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
 <\/td>\n2008<\/td>\n2009<\/td>\n2010<\/td>\n2011<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
 <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
IE<\/td>\n46.1%<\/td>\n65.2%<\/td>\n48.8%<\/td>\n27.9%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Chrome<\/td>\n–<\/td>\n3.2%<\/td>\n9.9%<\/td>\n20.1%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Firefox<\/td>\n21.2%<\/td>\n20.0%<\/td>\n22.4%<\/td>\n25.8%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Safari<\/td>\n3.7%<\/td>\n3.8%<\/td>\n6.9%<\/td>\n9.0%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

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The most obvious thing to note from these numbers, is that while Internet Explorer’s market share has taken a hammering over the last couple of years – (dropping from 65.2% in 2009 to 27.9% in 2011) – it still leads the field.<\/p>\n

On a monthly basis however, Chrome often beats IE into first place.<\/p>\n

I feel that tends to be because of the subject matter I post month to month – in months that I post a lot of “techy” or “nerdy” stuff, Chrome tends to win – suggesting that Chrome has gotten, or is getting, a foothold amongst the geeks. I don’t think this is a surprise.<\/p>\n

In months where I post predominantly other kinds of material, Internet Explorer does well.<\/p>\n

Interestingly, the share of the market held by Firefox – the previous geek favourite – has remained relatively stable across the four years, and actually recorded its best year on this site in 2011. Go figure.<\/p>\n

Perennially fourth placed Safari is still on the rise – but I suspect this is largely due to the proliferation of the Safari-equipped Apple iPad<\/a> and iPhone<\/a> in the community. For this reason, Safari’s share will be interesting to watch over time.<\/p>\n

While Internet Explorer remains on top – (at least with visitors to my site) – it is clear that the massive share of the market it previously enjoyed is on the wain.<\/p>\n

It seems the majority of people who have jumped the IE ship have landed on Chrome, but even Firefox – (which by anecdotal evidence seemed to be on the slide) – appears to have picked up some of the IE refugees, with a healthy gain in 2011.<\/p>\n

Internet Explorer still rules – but the challengers have their foot on its throat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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