Who’s winning the battle of the browsers?
Posted on Thursday, January 1st, 2009 at 10:15am. #
Should you be coding for Firefox, or Internet Explorer?
Seems the figures show that personal users are Firefox, while corporate users are heavily Internet Explorer (still).
Google Chrome isn’t doing too badly: over the last 30 days, it’s achieved a 2.7% ‘visit share’, significantly beating Opera. And interesting watching Safari’s figures too – Mac visitors to my site have increased (from 7.2% to 7.5%) yet visits using Safari have slumped.
james.cridland.net in 2008 (2007)
Firefox: 71% (59%)
Internet Explorer: 25% (35%)
Safari: 1.6% (2.9%)
Opera: 1% (1%)
Chrome: 0.3% (–)
www.mediauk.com in 2008 (2007)
Internet Explorer: 76% (83%)
Firefox: 17% (12%)
Safari: 3.7% (3.0%)
Opera: 0.5% (0.4%)
Chrome: 0.4% (–)
Source: Google Analytics. Photo: Garrett LeSage. Used under licence.
Callum
And will the BBC and Siemens ever let us use something better than IE6? Lord, I hope so.