Usage share of web browsers
The usage share of web browsers is the proportion, often expressed as a percentage, of visitors to a group of web sites that use a particular web browser.
Accuracy
Measuring browser usage in the number of requests made by each user agent can be misleading.Overestimation
Not all requests are generated by a user, as a user agent can make requests at regular time intervals without user input. In this case, the user's activity might be overestimated. Some examples:- Certain anti-virus products fake their user agent string to appear to be popular browsers. This is done to trick attack sites that might display clean content to the scanner, but not to the browser. The Register reported in June 2008 that traffic from AVG Linkscanner, using an IE6 user agent string, outstripped human link clicks by nearly 10 to 1.
- A user who revisits a site shortly after changing or upgrading browsers may be double-counted under some methods; overall numbers at the time of a new version's release may be skewed.
- Occasionally websites are written in such a way that they effectively block certain browsers. One common reason for this is that the website has been tested to work with only a limited number of browsers, and so the site owners enforce that only tested browsers are allowed to view the content, while all other browsers are sent a "failure" message, and instruction to use another browser. Many of the untested browsers may still be otherwise capable of rendering the content. Sophisticated users who are aware of this may then "spoof" the user agent string in order to gain access to the site.
- The browsers: Firefox, Chrome, Safari, and Opera will, under some circumstances, fetch resources before they need to render them, so that the resources can be used faster if they are needed. This technique, prerendering or pre-loading, may inflate the statistics for the browsers using it because of pre-loading of resources which are not used in the end.
Underestimation
- Firefox 1.5 and later versions use fast Document Object Model caching. JavaScript is only executed on page load from net or disk cache, but not if it is loaded from DOM cache. This can affect JavaScript-based tracking of browser statistics.
- While most browsers generate additional page hits by refreshing web pages when the user navigates back through page history, some browsers reuse cached content without resending requests to the server.
- Generally, the more faithfully a browser implements HTTP's cache specifications, the more it will be under-reported relative to browsers that implement those specifications poorly.
- Browser users may run site, cookie and JavaScript blockers which cause those users to be under-counted. For example, common AdBlock blocklists such as EasyBlock include sites such as StatCounter in their privacy lists, and NoScript blocks all JavaScript by default. The Firefox Add-ons website reports 15.0 million users of AdBlock variants and 2.2 million users of NoScript.
- Users behind a caching proxy may have repeat requests for certain pages served to the browser from the cache, rather than retrieving it again via the Internet.
User agent spoofing
- Default user agent strings of most browsers have pieces of strings from one or more other browsers, so that if the browser is unknown to a website, it can be identified as one of those. For example, Safari has not only "Mozilla/5.0", but also "KHTML" and "Gecko".
- Some Linux browsers such as GNOME Web identify themselves as Safari in order to aid compatibility.
Differences in measurement
Net Applications uses country-level weighting as well. The goal of weighting countries based on their usage is to mitigate selection area based sampling bias. This bias is caused by the differences in the percentage of tracked hits in the sample, and the percentage of global usage tracked by third party sources. This difference is caused by the heavier levels of market usage.
Statistics from the United States government's do not represent world-wide usage patterns. DAP uses raw data from a unified Google Analytics account.
Summary tables
The following tables summarize the usage share of all browsers for the indicated months. All of Apple Inc.'s platforms use the Safari browser, including macOS and iOS systems with the WebKit engine. Therefore, for the "all browsers" stats, Safari's percentage is counting all of these users.| Browser | StatCounter April 2020 | NetMarketShare April 2020 | Wikimedia November 2019 |
| Chrome | 62.48% | 65.96% | 48.7% |
| Safari | 19.94% | 17.26% | 22.0% |
| Firefox | 4.21% | 3.19% | 4.9% |
| Samsung Internet | 3.40% | 2.68% | 2.7% |
| UC | 1.97% | 0.82% | 0.3% |
| Opera | 1.73% | 0.89% | 1.1% |
| Edge | 2.67% | 3.03% | 1.9% |
| IE | 1.41% | 2.13% | 3.9% |
| AOSP | 0.57% | 0.47% | 0.2% |
| Others | 1.62% | 3.57 % | 14.3% |
| Browser | StatCounter June 2020 | NetMarketShare June 2020 | W3Counter November 2019 | Wikimedia November 2019 |
| Chrome | 69.42% | 70.19% | 59.3% | 49.4% |
| Firefox | 8.48% | 7.58% | 6.1% | 12.0% |
| Safari | 8.74% | 3.56% | 14.6% | 6.7% |
| Edge | 5.82% | 8.07% | 4.2% | 4.5% |
| IE | 2.88% | 4.53% | 5.3% | 9.2% |
| Opera | 2.39% | 1.06% | 3.5% | 2.0% |
| Others | 2.27% | 5.01% | 7.0% | 16.2% |
| Browser | StatCounter June 2020 | NetMarketShare June 2020 | Wikimedia November 2019 |
| Chrome | 63.42% | 61.92% | 48.3% |
| Safari | 22.98% | 26.93% | 32.4% |
| Samsung Internet | 6.55% | 4.65% | 4.5% |
| UC | 3.40% | 0.79% | 0.5% |
| Opera | 1.60% | 0.52% | 0.3% |
| Firefox | 0.47% | 2.04% | 0.8% |
| Others | 1.58% | 2.00% | 13.2% |
| Browser | Statcounter April 2020 | NetMarketShare April 2020 |
| Chrome | 34.91% | 45.48% |
| Safari | 50.56% | 44.05% |
| AOSP | 12.07% | 2.02% |
| Samsung Internet | 4.29% | |
| Opera | 0.47% | 1.34% |
| Firefox | 0.76% | 0.43% |
| Others | 1.23% | 2.93% |
Crossover to smartphones having majority share
According to StatCounter web use statistics, in the week from 7–13 November 2016, "mobile" alone overtook desktop for the first time and by the end of the year smartphones were in the majority. Since 27 October, the desktop hasn't shown a majority, even on weekdays.Previously according to StatCounter press release, the world has turned into a desktop-minority; as of 2016, there was about 49% of desktop usage for that month. The two biggest continents, Asia and Africa, have been a mobile-majority for a while, and Australia is by now desktop-minority too. A few countries in Europe and South America have also followed this trend of being mobile-majority.
In March 2015, for the first time in the US the number of mobile-only adult internet users exceeded the number of desktop-only internet users with 11.6% of the digital population only using mobile compared to 10.6% only using desktop; this also means the majority, 78%, use both desktop and mobile to access the internet.
Older reports (2000–2019)
StatCounter (Jan 2009 to October 2019)
statistics are directly derived from hits from 3 million sites using StatCounter totaling more than 15 billion hits per month. No weightings are used.| Date | Chrome | Firefox | Safari | Internet Explorer | Edge | Other | Mobile |
| 68.91% | 9.25% | 8.68% | 4.45% | 4.51% | 4.20% | ||
| 69.08% | 9.54% | 7.41% | 4.99% | 4.71% | 4.27% | ||
| 71.15% | 9.52% | 5.80% | 4.40% | 4.71% | 4.43% | ||
| 71.05% | 9.52% | 5.41% | 5.00% | 4.60% | 4.41% | ||
| 70.71% | 9.76% | 5.64% | 5.03% | 4.50% | 4.36% | ||
| 69.09% | 10.01% | 7.25% | 5.14% | 4.32% | 4.21% | ||
| 69.55% | 9.78% | 6.91% | 5.16% | 4.37% | 4.23% | ||
| 69.52% | 9.58% | 6.46% | 5.44% | 4.56% | 4.44% | ||
| 71.58% | 8.72% | 5.77% | 5.34% | 4.34% | 4.24% | ||
| 70.88% | 9.50% | 5.15% | 5.74% | 4.41% | 4.32% | ||
| 70.95% | 10.05% | 5.06% | 5.40% | 4.17% | 4.38% | ||
| 72.38% | 9.10% | 5.06% | 5.38% | 4.00% | 4.07% | ||
| 69.64% | 10.14% | 5.61% | 6.01% | 4.21% | 4.38% | ||
| 67.88% | 10.94% | 5.58% | 6.45% | 4.36% | 4.78% | ||
| 67.66% | 10.96% | 5.13% | 6.97% | 4.24% | 5.03% | ||
| 67.60% | 11.23% | 5.01% | 6.97% | 4.19% | 5.00% | ||
| 66.87% | 11.44% | 5.38% | 7.13% | 4.16% | 5.02% | ||
| 66.93% | 11.55% | 5.48% | 6.97% | 4.15% | 4.92% | ||
| 66.17% | 11.78% | 5.48% | 7.17% | 4.26% | 5.14% | ||
| 66.93% | 11.60% | 5.37% | 7.02% | 4.18% | 4.90% | ||
| 67.49% | 11.54% | 5.42% | 6.91% | 4.04% | 4.60% | ||
| 65.98% | 11.87% | 5.87% | 7.28% | 4.11% | 4.88% | ||
| 64.72% | 12.21% | 6.29% | 7.71% | 4.18% | 4.88% | ||
| 64.02% | 12.55% | 6.08% | 8.47% | 4.29% | 4.59% | ||
| 63.60% | 13.04% | 5.89% | 8.34% | 4.43% | 4.69% | ||
| 63.98% | 13.60% | 5.46% | 8.21% | 4.30% | 4.46% | ||
| 63.58% | 13.73% | 5.51% | 8.61% | 3.95% | 4.61% | ||
| 63.48% | 13.82% | 5.04% | 9.03% | 3.95% | 4.68% | ||
| 63.23% | 13.98% | 5.15% | 9.28% | 3.89% | 4.47% | ||
| 63.36% | 14.17% | 5.25% | 9.20% | 3.74% | 4.28% | ||
| 63.45% | 14.53% | 5.20% | 9.00% | 3.71% | 4.11% | ||
| 62.81% | 14.97% | 5.28% | 9.39% | 3.64% | 3.92% | ||
| 62.95% | 14.81% | 5.34% | 9.62% | 3.68% | 3.60% | ||
| 62.09% | 14.85% | 5.28% | 10.49% | 3.58% | 3.71% | ||
| 62.38% | 15.43% | 4.59% | 10.67% | 3.04% | 3.85% |
| Date | Chrome | Internet Explorer | Firefox | Safari | Opera | Other | Mobile |
| 57.75% | 16.00% | 15.95% | 4.60% | 2.03% | 3.68% | ||
| 55.39% | 18.86% | 17.24% | 4.70% | 1.91% | 1.90% | ||
| 51.72% | 21.16% | 18.70% | 4.94% | 1.67% | 1.81% | ||
| 48.69% | 22.52% | 19.25% | 4.89% | 1.45% | 2.19% | ||
| 46.60% | 24.65% | 20.39% | 5.09% | 1.32% | 1.96% | ||
| 45.40% | 26.50% | 21.31% | 4.80% | 1.11% | 1.32% | ||
| 38.08% | 32.25% | 22.47% | 5.12% | 1.22% | 0.86% | ||
| 33.81% | 32.04% | 23.73% | 7.12% | 1.72% | 1.58% | ||
| 28.40% | 37.45% | 24.78% | 6.62% | 1.95% | 0.79% | ||
| 22.14% | 42.45% | 27.95% | 5.14% | 1.66% | 0.63% | ||
| 15.68% | 46.00% | 30.68% | 5.09% | 2.00% | 0.55% | ||
| 9.88% | 52.68% | 30.69% | 4.09% | 1.91% | 0.74% | ||
| 6.04% | 55.25% | 31.64% | 3.76% | 2.00% | 1.31% | ||
| 3.01% | 60.11% | 30.50% | 3.02% | 2.64% | 0.72% | ||
| 1.38% | 65.41% | 27.03% | 2.57% | 2.92% | 0.70% |
W3Counter (May 2007 to March 2020)
This site counts the last 15,000 page views from each of approximately 80,000 websites.This limits the influence of sites with more than 15,000 monthly visitors on the usage statistics.
W3Counter is not affiliated with the World Wide Web Consortium.
| Date | Google Chrome | Safari | Internet Explorer & Edge | Firefox | Opera |
| 59.3% | 12.3% | 9.1% | 4.5% | 3.0% | |
| 58.1% | 13.0% | 12.9% | 5.4% | 2.7% | |
| 58.2% | 17.7% | 7.1% | 5.5% | 2.6% | |
| 56.1% | 18.1% | 7.5% | 5.5% | 3.7% | |
| 59.2% | 14.6% | 9.6% | 6.1% | 3.5% | |
| 57.0% | 13.4% | 9.4% | 6.9% | 3.3% | |
| 58.7% | 12.5% | 8.1% | 6.3% | 3.0% | |
| 56.8% | 12.3% | 7.8% | 5.3% | 2.1% | |
| 55.4% | 12.5% | 8.6% | 6.5% | 2.8% | |
| 56.8% | 13.3% | 8.1% | 6.8% | 2.4% | |
| 57.4% | 13.5% | 6.8% | 6.8% | 2.4% | |
| 60.1% | 12.7% | 6.8% | 6.1% | 2.8% | |
| 65.4% | 13.6% | 6.2% | 6.3% | 3.0% | |
| 63.9% | 14.1% | 7.1% | 6.5% | 3.1% | |
| 64.5% | 14.3% | 7.0% | 6.3% | 3.0% | |
| 64.4% | 14.6% | 7.2% | 6.3% | 3.0% | |
| 64.7% | 14.2% | 7.4% | 6.7% | 3.0% | |
| 61.7% | 13.1% | 6.6% | 6.5% | 2.8% | |
| 62.2% | 13.4% | 6.3% | 7.1% | 3.0% | |
| 60.3% | 13.1% | 6.7% | 7.2% | 3.1% | |
| 57.8% | 14.0% | 5.9% | 6.0% | 3.7% | |
| 55.2% | 13.5% | 6.1% | 5.4% | 3.2% | |
| 56.6% | 14.7% | 7.1% | 6.5% | 3.5% | |
| 58.8% | 14.6% | 6.9% | 6.4% | 3.5% | |
| 60.6% | 15.4% | 7.6% | 7.2% | 2.9% | |
| 59.9% | 15.7% | 7.3% | 8.5% | 3.4% | |
| 58.4% | 15.3% | 7.8% | 9.1% | 3.9% | |
| 58.8% | 14.5% | 8.0% | 9.3% | 4.0% | |
| 59.2% | 14.3% | 8.1% | 9.3% | 4.0% | |
| 58.8% | 13.4% | 9.8% | 9.1% | 3.2% | |
| 57.0% | 13.2% | 11.2% | 9.1% | 3.2% | |
| 56.8% | 14.9% | 9.1% | 8.1% | 5.0% | |
| 64.0% | 13.6% | 8.0% | 6.8% | 3.2% | |
| 62.4% | 13.5% | 8.9% | 7.8% | 3.2% | |
| 58.1% | 14.9% | 9.7% | 9.0% | 3.0% | |
| 61.2% | 15.9% | 8.2% | 6.3% | 2.9% | |
| 58.9% | 15.2% | 7.2% | 7.2% | 3.8% | |
| 57.2% | 13.2% | 8.5% | 9.0% | 5.0% | |
| 58.4% | 13.3% | 8.1% | 9.5% | 4.4% | |
| 59.5% | 13.1% | 10.2% | 10.1% | 2.6% | |
| 47.3% | 20.7% | 12.3% | 11.4% | 3.2% | |
| 46.5% | 16.5% | 13.6% | 13.3% | 3.9% | |
| 43.2% | 15.2% | 17.3% | 15.3% | 3.1% | |
| 38.7% | 15.4% | 21.3% | 15.3% | 3.1% | |
| 34.3% | 17.9% | 20.4% | 18.4% | 2.7% | |
| 33.4% | 15.2% | 23.0% | 19.1% | 2.4% | |
| 30.1% | 14.8% | 27.6% | 20.1% | 2.3% | |
| 28.5% | 13.4% | 28.7% | 23.2% | 2.2% | |
| 25.3% | 6.7% | 31.8% | 25.5% | 2.5% | |
| 20.2% | 6.6% | 36.6% | 28.5% | 2.4% | |
| 14.6% | 6.0% | 41.1% | 31.9% | 2.1% | |
| 10.6% | 2.1% | 48.3% | 34.1% | 2.3% | |
| 6.4% | 5.5% | 50.6% | 32.9% | 2.2% | |
| 3.4% | 4.8% | 54.4% | 32.4% | 1.8% | |
| 0.2% | 2.8% | 60.2% | 32.1% | 2.0% | |
| 2.5% | 62.3% | 30.4% | 2.1% | ||
| 2.8% | 63.1% | 29.1% | 2.0% | ||
| 2.2% | 66.9% | 25.1% | 1.8% | ||
| 2.4% | 67.7% | 25.0% | 1.8% | ||
| Date | Google Chrome | Safari | Internet Explorer | Firefox | Opera |
Net Applications (May 2016 to November 2019)
bases its usage share on statistics from 40,000 websites having around 160 million unique visitors per month. The mean site has 1300 unique visitors per day.| Period | Chrome | Firefox | Internet Explorer | Edge | Safari | Sogou Explorer | QQ | Opera | Yandex | UC |
| 67.15% | 8.15% | 6.81% | 5.97% | 5.29% | 1.78% | 1.66% | 1.28% | 0.81% | 0.40% | |
| 67.38% | 8.62% | 6.47% | 6.10% | 4.82% | 1.83% | 1.66% | 1.32% | 0.84% | 0.31% | |
| 68.33% | 8.68% | 6.30% | 5.93% | 4.26% | 1.59% | 1.45% | 1.42% | 0.98% | 0.34% | |
| 68.60% | 8.43% | 7.50% | 6.34% | 3.85% | 1.72% | 1.58% | 1.39% | 0.86% | 0.26% | |
| 67.22% | 8.34% | 7.44% | 5.80% | 3.40% | 1.70% | 1.52% | 1.43% | 0.88% | 0.34% | |
| 66.29% | 8.86% | 7.30% | 6.03% | 3.32% | 1.35% | 1.30% | 1.54% | 0.87% | 0.32% | |
| 67.90% | 9.46% | 7.70% | 5.36% | 3.30% | 1.47% | 1.33% | 1.52% | 0.95% | 0.39% | |
| 65.64% | 10.23% | 8.44% | 5.53% | 3.58% | 1.63% | 1.40% | 1.57% | 0.89% | 0.37% | |
| 67.88% | 9.27% | 7.34% | 5.20% | 3.69% | 1.50% | 1.33% | 1.65% | 0.97% | 0.44% | |
| 66.89% | 9.39% | 8.23% | 4.79% | 3.56% | 1.49% | 1.60% | 1.63% | 0.83% | 0.46% | |
| 67.29% | 9.92% | 7.94% | 4.61% | 4.00% | 1.24% | 1.31% | 1.60% | 0.80% | 0.44% | |
| 67.18% | 9.58% | 8.31% | 4.09% | 3.71% | 1.69% | 1.71% | 1.68% | 0.68% | 0.51% | |
| 65.57% | 8.96% | 9.64% | 4.22% | 3.74% | 1.73% | 1.68% | 1.56% | 0.67% | 0.55% | |
| 66.43% | 9.25% | 9.48% | 4.28% | 3.74% | 1.43% | 1.53% | 1.55% | 0.63% | 0.49% | |
| 66.28% | 9.62% | 9.94% | 4.08% | 3.59% | 1.23% | 1.20% | 1.61% | 0.59% | 0.60% | |
| 65.21% | 9.76% | 10.86% | 4.30% | 3.65% | 1.15% | 1.14% | 1.66% | 0.64% | 0.52% | |
| 64.67% | 9.68% | 11.15% | 4.21% | 3.49% | 1.49% | 1.55% | 1.58% | 0.46% | 0.60% | |
| 62.77% | 10.12% | 12.22% | 4.25% | 3.70% | 1.45% | 1.49% | 1.58% | 0.56% | 0.59% | |
| 62.85% | 9.92% | 11.82% | 4.26% | 3.71% | 1.47% | 1.55% | 1.67% | 0.58% | 0.75% | |
| 61.77% | 10.52% | 12.20% | 4.46% | 3.94% | 1.60% | 1.72% | 1.50% | 0.72% | 0.80% | |
| 61.77% | 10.52% | 12.20% | 4.46% | 3.94% | 1.49% | 1.38% | 1.45% | 0.65% | 0.66% | |
| 61.55% | 11.15% | 11.66% | 4.44% | 4.39% | 1.32% | 1.21% | 1.73% | 0.72% | 0.63% | |
| 61.41% | 10.85% | 11.84% | 4.67% | 4.18% | 1.64% | 1.20% | 1.60% | 0.62% | 0.71% | |
| 60.57% | 11.02% | 12.36% | 4.61% | 4.00% | 1.79% | 1.47% | 1.56% | 0.58% | 0.76% | |
| 60.61% | 11.42% | 12.04% | 4.21% | 3.85% | 1.84% | 1.53% | 1.51% | 0.77% | 0.78% | |
| 59.99% | 11.71% | 12.25% | 4.06% | 3.78% | 1.92% | 1.80% | 1.41% | 0.55% | 0.70% | |
| 60.67% | 13.26% | 11.80% | 3.71% | 3.54% | 1.70% | 1.28% | 1.38% | 0.55% | 0.66% | |
| 61.05% | 12.26% | 12.07% | 3.67% | 3.14% | 1.74% | 1.70% | 1.52% | 0.59% | 0.74% | |
| 59.65% | 12.59% | 12.96% | 3.78% | 3.22% | 1.72% | 1.64% | 1.58% | 0.61% | 0.82% | |
| 60.08% | 12.53% | 12.75% | 3.80% | 3.24% | 1.66% | 1.40% | 1.55% | 0.66% | 0.97% | |
| 58.92% | 12.90% | 12.91% | 3.97% | 3.38% | 1.81% | 1.32% | 1.56% | 0.91% | 0.78% | |
| 55.95% | 13.13% | 14.41% | 3.97% | 3.35% | 1.86% | 1.98% | 1.77% | 1.29% | 0.72% | |
| 55.81% | 15.50% | 14.61% | 3.63% | 3.26% | 1.69% | 0.96% | 1.93% | 0.38% | 0.78% | |
| 59.17% | 14.88% | 11.82% | 3.22% | 3.13% | 1.32% | 0.84% | 1.59% | 0.52% | 0.61% | |
| 56.65% | 15.56% | 14.93% | 3.32% | 3.43% | 1.33% | 0.85% | 1.41% | 0.36% | 0.52% | |
| 55.50% | 15.27% | 14.79% | 2.97% | 4.57% | 1.34% | 0.79% | 1.61% | 0.86% | 0.32% | |
| 56.20% | 14.79% | 14.89% | 2.31% | 4.67% | 1.05% | 0.60% | 2.95% | 0.50% | 0.31% |
Wikimedia (April 2009 to March 2015)
Wikimedia traffic analysis reports are based on server logs of about 4 billion page requests per month, based on the user agent information that accompanied the requests. These server logs cover requests to all the Wikimedia Foundation projects, including Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons, Wiktionary, Wikibooks, Wikiquote, Wikisource, Wikinews, Wikiversity and others.Note: Wikimedia has recently had a large percentage of unrecognised browsers, previously counted as Firefox, that are now assumed to be Internet Explorer 11 fixed in the February 2014 and later numbers. And February 2014 numbers include mobile for Internet Explorer and Firefox. Chrome did not include the mobile numbers at that time while Android does since there was an "Android browser" that was the default browser at that time.
| Period | Internet Explorer | Firefox | Chrome | Safari | Opera | Other Mozilla | Mobile |
| 42.12% | 28.82% | 11.18% | 5.70% | 3.67% | 0.52% | 6.4% | |
| 47.74% | 30.43% | 7.52% | 5.18% | 2.89% | 0.53% | 4.5% | |
| 51.01% | 30.85% | 4.81% | 5.13% | 3.18% | 0.56% | 3.1% | |
| 54.55% | 31.52% | 2.77% | 4.51% | 2.38% | 0.70% | 2.4% | |
| 57.37% | 30.71% | 1.93% | 3.86% | 2.57% | 0.68% | 1.9% |
Clicky (September 2009 to August 2013)
StatOwl.com (September 2008 to November 2012)
92% of sites monitored by StatOwl serve predominantly United States market.AT Internet Institute (Europe, July 2007 to June 2010)
AT Internet Institute was formerly known as XiTi.Method: Only counts visits to local sites in 23 European countries and then averages the percentages for those 23 European countries independent of population size.
| Date | Internet Explorer | Netscape | Firefox | Opera | Safari | Chrome | Source |
| June 2010 | 53.8% | 30.6% | 2.4% | 6.8% | 5.7% | ||
| March 2010 | 57.1% | 29.6% | 2.2% | 5.2% | 5.3% | ||
| September 2009 | 62.0% | 28.4% | 2.2% | 4.3% | 2.8% | ||
| April 2009 | 63.6% | 0.6% | 28.4% | 2.2% | 3.4% | 1.7% | |
| March 2009 | 64.6% | 0.6% | 27.8% | 2.2% | 3.3% | 1.4% | |
| February 2009 | 65.6% | 0.5% | 27.4% | 2.1% | 3.0% | 1.3% | |
| January 2009 | 58.1% | 0.6% | 32.5% | 4.1% | 3.0% | 1.5% | |
| December 2008 | 58.5% | 0.6% | 32.3% | 4.5% | 2.7% | 1.3% | |
| November 2008 | 59.5% | 0.6% | 31.1% | 5.1% | 2.5% | 1.1% | |
| October 2008 | 59.2% | 0.6% | 31.1% | 5.4% | 2.4% | 1.1% | |
| September 2008 | 60.2% | 0.4% | 31.2% | 4.8% | 2.4% | 1.0% | |
| August 2008 | 59.4% | 0.3% | 33.0% | 4.5% | 2.6% | ||
| July 2008 | 60.4% | 0.3% | 32.2% | 4.5% | 2.4% | ||
| June 2008 | 60.5% | 0.3% | 31.4% | 5.1% | 2.5% | ||
| May 2008 | 61.7% | 0.4% | 30.7% | 4.7% | 2.4% | ||
| April 2008 | 64.5% | 0.5% | 28.9% | 3.6% | 2.4% | ||
| March 2008 | 65.0% | 0.5% | 28.8% | 3.3% | 2.3% | ||
| February 2008 | 65.6% | 0.5% | 28.5% | 3.2% | 2.2% | ||
| January 2008 | 66.1% | 0.5% | 28.0% | 3.2% | 2.1% | ||
| December 2007 | 66.1% | 0.5% | 28.0% | 3.3% | 2.0% | ||
| November 2007 | 66.9% | 0.5% | 27.3% | 3.2% | 1.9% | ||
| October 2007 | 67.5% | 0.4% | 27.0% | 3.1% | 1.8% | ||
| September 2007 | 66.6% | 0.3% | 27.7% | 3.4% | 1.8% | ||
| 2–8 July 2007 | 66.5% | 0.3% | 27.8% | 3.5% | 1.7% |
TheCounter.com (2000 to 2009)
TheCounter.com identifies sixteen versions of six browsers. Other browsers are categorised as either "Netscape compatible" or "unknown". Internet Explorer 8 is identified as Internet Explorer 7. Monthly data includes all hits from 2008-02-01 until the end of the month concerned. More than the exact browser type, this data identifies the underlying rendering engine used by various browsers, and the table below aggregates them in the same column.| Period | Internet Explorer | Netscape, Other Mozilla, Firefox | Safari | Opera | Netscape Navigator | Sources |
| 2009 Q4 | 66.42% | 21.13% | 10.05% | 1.00% | 0.05% | , , |
| 2009 Q3 | 69.07% | 20.59% | 8.10% | 0.89% | 0.06% | , , |
| 2009 Q2 | 70.31% | 20.12% | 6.44% | 0.94% | 0.06% | , , |
| 2009 Q1 | 71.25% | 20.01% | 5.47% | 0.92% | 0.08% | , , |
| 2008 Q4 | 74.24% | 18.66% | 4.52% | 0.89% | 0.07% | , , |
| 2008 Q3 | 76.33% | 17.97% | 3.76% | 0.84% | 0.07% | , , |
| 2008 Q2 | 78.30% | 16.36% | 3.41% | 0.81% | 0.06% | , , |
| 2008 Q1 | 78.80% | 15.87% | 3.32% | 0.79% | 0.06% | , , |
| 2007 Q4 | 81.14% | 13.81% | 3.21% | 0.67% | 0.06% | , , |
| 2007 Q3 | 81.63% | 13.49% | 3.00% | 0.66% | 0.06% | , , |
| 2007 Q2 | 82.97% | 12.41% | 2.87% | 0.64% | 0.06% | , , |
| 2007 Q1 | 83.69% | 11.57% | 2.92% | 0.57% | 0.06% | , , |
| 2006 Q4 | 84.11% | 11.13% | 2.80% | 0.60% | 0.05% | , |
| 2006 Q3 | 84.48% | 10.56% | 2.27% | 0.73% | 0.06% | , , |
| 2006 Q2 | 86.32% | 9.03% | 1.89% | 0.70% | 0.05% | , , |
| 2006 Q1 | 90.01% | 6.77% | 1.40% | 0.58% | 0.05% | , , |
| 2005 Q4 | 87.25% | 8.60% | 1.83% | 0.71% | 0.07% | , , |
| 2005 Q3 | 87.58% | 8.42% | 1.60% | 0.67% | 0.07% | , , |
| 2005 Q2 | 90.90% | 6.02% | 0.99% | 0.51% | 0.09% | , , |
| 2005 Q1 | 90.77% | 5.73% | 1.00% | 0.54% | 0.11% | , , |
| 2004 Q4 | 90.98% | 5.10% | 0.77% | 0.68% | 0.18% | , , |
| 2004 Q3 | 92.70% | 3.57% | 0.73% | 0.65% | 0.20% | , , |
| 2004 Q2 | 95.04% | 2.37% | 0.67% | 0.51% | 0.32% | , , |
| 2004 Q1 | 94.28% | 2.70% | 0.52% | 0.36% | , , | |
| 2003 Q4 | , , | |||||
| 2003 Q3 | , , | |||||
| 2003 Q2 | 94.43% | 2.22% | 0.66% | 1.45% | , , | |
| 2003 Q1 | 94.18% | 2.15% | 0.65% | 1.77% | , , | |
| 2002 Q4 | 93.94% | 1.67% | 0.83% | 2.31% | , , | |
| 2002 Q3 | 93.32% | 1.36% | 0.94% | 3.04% | , , | |
| 2002 Q2 | 92.47% | 1.13% | 0.82% | 4.13% | , , | |
| 2002 Q1 | 92.40% | 0.93% | 0.52% | 4.67% | , , | |
| 2001 Q4 | 90.83% | 0.71% | 0.36% | 5.23% | , , | |
| 2001 Q3 | 88.43% | 0.26% | 0.31% | 6.49% | , , | |
| 2001 Q2 | 87.99% | 0.27% | 0.28% | 7.46% | , , | |
| 2001 Q1 | 86.80% | 0.30% | 0.22% | 9.84% | , , | |
| 2000 Q4 | 83.95% | 0.14% | 0.14% | 12.61% | , , | |
| 2000 Q3 | 82.76% | 0.04% | 0.14% | 14.35% | , , | |
| 2000 Q2 | 80.30% | 0.02% | 0.12% | 17.54% | , , | |
| 2000 Q1 | 79.09% | 0.00% | 0.13% | 19.25% | , , | |
| Period | Internet Explorer | Netscape, Other Mozilla, Firefox | Safari | Opera | Netscape Navigator | Sources |
OneStat.com (April 2002 to March 2009)
| Period | Internet Explorer | Other Mozilla, Firefox | Safari | Chrome | Opera | Netscape |
| 72.69% | 20.40% | 4.53% | 1.05% | 0.49% | 0.38% | |
| 75.54% | 18.74% | 3.95% | 0.62% | 0.39% | 0.50% | |
| 75.69% | 19.65% | 3.77% | 0.61% | 0.17% | ||
| 78.13% | 16.11% | 3.68% | 0.73% | 0.18% |
| Period | Internet Explorer | Other Mozilla, Firefox | Safari | Chrome | Opera | Netscape |
| 65.55% | 23.09% | 7.36% | 1.32% | 0.75% | 0.56% | |
| 69.67% | 20.38% | 7.56% | 0.92% | 0.76% | 0.56% | |
| 75.76% | 16.47% | 5.72% | 0.69% | 0.13% | ||
| 79.00% | 14.13% | 4.70% | 0.71% | 0.14% |
| Period | Internet Explorer | Other Mozilla, Firefox | Safari | Chrome | Opera | Netscape |
| 80.91% | 15.16% | 1.94% | 0.85% | 0.60% | 0.36% | |
| 83.77% | 11.45% | 1.76% | 0.43% | 0.60% | 0.34% | |
| 86.00% | 11.22% | 1.61% | 0.53% | 0.10% | ||
| 86.72% | 10.86% | 1.78% | 0.49% | 0.10% |
| Period | Internet Explorer | Other Mozilla, Firefox | Safari | Chrome | Opera | Netscape |
| 66.42% | 26.32% | 1.86% | 4.05% | 0.24% | ||
| 65.71% | 26.68% | 1.77% | 4.28% | 0.24% |
| Period | Internet Explorer | Other Mozilla, Firefox | Safari | Chrome | Opera | Netscape |
| 71.57% | 23.48% | 2.90% | 0.86% | 0.54% | 0.46% | |
| 71.50% | 23.45% | 3.23% | 0.59% | 0.56% | 0.51% |
ADTECH (Europe, 2004 to 2009)
WebSideStory (US, February 1999 to June 2006)
Older reports (pre-2000)
GVU WWW user survey| Date | Mosaic | Netscape Navigator | Internet Explorer | Source |
| October 1998 | 64% | 32.2% | ||
| April 1998 | 70% | 22.7% | ||
| October 1997 | 59.67% | 15.13% | ||
| April 1997 | 81.13% | 12.13% | ||
| October 1996 | 80.45% | 12.18% | ||
| April 1996 | 89.36% | 3.76% | ||
| April 1995 | 9% | 54% | ||
| October 1994 | 68% | 18% | ||
| January 1994 | 97% |
EWS Web Server at UIUC
| Date | Mosaic | Internet Explorer | Netscape Navigator | Source |
| 1998 Q4 | 50.43% | 46.87% | , , | |
| 1998 Q3 | 47.90% | 48.97% | , , | |
| 1998 Q2 | 43.17% | 53.57% | , , | |
| 1998 Q1 | 39.67% | 57.63% | , , | |
| 1997 Q4 | 35.53% | 62.23% | , , | |
| 1997 Q3 | 32.40% | 64.93% | , , | |
| 1997 Q2 | 0.37% | 27.67% | 69.77% | , , |
| 1997 Q1 | 0.60% | 22.87% | 74.33% | , , |
| 1996 Q4 | 1.20% | 19.07% | 77.13% | , , |
| 1996 Q3 | 2.47% | 13.97% | 80.37% | , , |
| 1996 Q2 | 6.93% | 9.60% | 82.77% | , , |
ZD Market Intelligence
| Date | Internet Explorer | Netscape Navigator | Source |
| January 1998 | 39% | 54% | |
| January 1997 | 21% | 63% |
Zona Research
| Date | Internet Explorer | Netscape Navigator | Source |
| July 1998 | 45% | 54% | |
| September 1997 | 36% | 62% | |
| January 1997 | 28% | 70% |
AdKnowledge
| Date | Internet Explorer | Netscape Navigator | Source |
| June 1998 | 46% | 52% | |
| March 1998 | 42% | 57% | |
| January 1998 | 36% | 61% |
Dataquest
| Date | Internet Explorer | Netscape Navigator | Source |
| 1997 | 39.4% | 57.6% | |
| 1996 | 20% | 73% | |
| 1995 | 2.9% | 80.1% |
International Data Corporation
| Date | Internet Explorer | Netscape Navigator | Source |
| 1997 | 23% | 51% | |
| 1996 | 16% | 55% |