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Browser statistics

Thursday, March 20th, 2008 at 10:09 am

Browsers statistics are never completely accurate as most sites collect them from their visitors. This can be biased as the target audience for one site may be hi-tech people on the latest Macs, whereas another site might be students on their schools PC’s that were never updated. Add to that the country and language of the user and it’s hard to get a complete overview from one place. The best way is to take a look at a bunch of sites to try and guess an average, as accurate as that can be. Here are the sites I have found to work:

Upsdell collects their information from 5 different sources and compares them, giving a better perspective:
http://www.upsdell.com/BrowserNews/stat.htm
thecounter.com are a good resource as they take their stats from people installing their tracking code on their site.
http://www.thecounter.com/stats/

Market share have a rather nice pie graph, but their information is collected from traffic to their own site:
http://marketshare.hitslink.com/report.aspx?qprid=0

W3Schools have stats collected from traffic to their site, therefore biased towards tech people. It is good to know what like minded people are using:
http://marketshare.hitslink.com/report.aspx?qprid=0

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