Browser Statistics Month by Month
| 2008 |
IE7 |
IE6 |
IE5 |
Fx |
Moz |
S |
O |
| August |
26.0% |
24.5% |
0.1% |
43.7% |
0.5% |
2.6% |
2.1% |
| July |
26.4% |
25.3% |
0.3% |
42.6% |
0.5% |
2.5% |
1.9% |
| June |
27.0% |
26.5% |
0.5% |
41.0% |
0.5% |
2.6% |
1.7% |
| May |
26.5% |
27.3% |
0.7% |
39.8% |
0.7% |
2.4% |
1.5% |
| April |
24.9% |
28.9% |
1.0% |
39.1% |
0.9% |
2.2% |
1.4% |
| March |
23.3% |
29.5% |
1.1% |
37.0% |
1.1% |
2.1% |
1.4% |
| February |
22.7% |
30.7% |
1.3% |
36.5% |
1.2% |
2.0% |
1.4% |
| January |
21.2% |
32.0% |
1.5% |
36.4% |
1.3% |
1.9% |
1.4% |
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| IE |
Internet Explorer |
| Fx |
Firefox (identified as Mozilla before 2005) |
| Moz |
The Mozilla Suite (Gecko, Netscape) |
| S |
Safari (and Konqueror. Both identified as Mozilla before 2007) |
| O |
Opera |
| N |
Netscape (identified as Mozilla after 2006) |
| AOL |
America Online (based on both Internet Explorer and Mozilla) |
Source: W3school (accessed on the 6th of Sept 2008)
And now is time to include Google Chrome as well! I am pretty sure Google Chrome is going to be the first of the class very soon! It is just great: very wide screen, clear, easy to use and very fast! The only negative point (and people are complaining about it) is the google toolbar! Unfortunately Google Chrome was released without Google Toolbar.
I guess GG (Google Guys) are doing a great job around the google toolbar for Google Chrome. I think of something like… fading effect (same effect than the property hover), with a non invasive Google Toolbar that appears and disappears when the mouse ‘hover‘ the Google Toolbar button, and a fading drop down menu (including page rank, translator button, autofill and so on) will gently appear.
This will be also a good additional point to immediately gain points over the competitors.
How long will Google Chrome need to be in the 3 most used browsers?
Ciao,
Marco 
Two months are already gone since the launch of Google Chrome. Its market share still around 3% (source: w3school accessed on the 6th of November 2008). From the data available, we can see how IE still losing market share. Users who leave IE6 (-2.1%) are more than the ones who move on IE7 (+0.6%). The winner in this battle still Firefox that gained 1.4% of the market share.
