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Web Browser Usage (Trend Analysis)

Browser market share and market penetration by version

The data below is trend analysis based upon the version market share for the browser(s) you selected. Please remember that we only display web browser versions that tallied at least 0.1% of the overall market share for these selected browsers:
  • Internet Explorer
To modify the list of selected browsers, please return to the main web browser market share trend report and make your new selections in the "Report Drill-Downs" section underneath the graph/chart.
Date Range Interval Chart Type Browser Operating System Search Engine Connection
Nov '12 - Apr '13 monthly 2D Column All Browsers All Operating Systems All Search Engines All Connections

Web Browser Usage Trend

Report Drill-Downs

You may click any of the Browser results below to drill down to a more detailed report for that individual Browser.
You can also check "Explore" to view multiple Browsers at a time.
Explore Browser Total Avg Nov '12 Dec '12 Jan '13 Feb '13 Mar '13 Apr '13
Internet Explorer Version 9x 50.73% 50.73% 0.00% 0.00% 0.00% 0.00% 0.00%
Internet Explorer Version 8x 39.58% 39.58% 0.00% 0.00% 0.00% 0.00% 0.00%
Internet Explorer Version 7x 7.13% 7.13% 0.00% 0.00% 0.00% 0.00% 0.00%
Internet Explorer Version 10x 1.97% 1.97% 0.00% 0.00% 0.00% 0.00% 0.00%
Internet Explorer Version 6x 0.60% 0.60% 0.00% 0.00% 0.00% 0.00% 0.00%
  Report Details  

Wikipedia Definition:
The term "browser wars" refers to the competition for dominance in the web browser marketplace. The term is used to denote two specific periods of time: the competition between market-dominating Netscape Navigator and its eventual defeat by Microsoft Internet Explorer during the late 1990s, and the competition from 2003 onwards between the dominating Internet Explorer and several other emerging browsers including Mozilla Firefox, Safari, Opera and, since mid-2008, Google Chrome.
  Related News  

  • Users of Internet Explorer 8 at risk of 'water hole attack,' urged to take security ...
    WWBT / 5/10/13
    (RNN) - Users of Internet Explorer 8 could be at risk for a major cyber security threat unless they take steps to safeguard their browser. Microsoft, which owns the Internet Explorer browser system, issued a security advisory that explained users of Internet ...
  • Microsoft offers fix-it for IE 8 zero-day
    Virus Bulletin / 5/9/13
    ... 8 zero-day. CVE-2013-1347 used in watering hole attacks. Following this weekend's discovery of a new zero-day vulnerability in version 8 of Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser, the company has released a 'fix-it' that addresses the known attack vectors.
  • Internet Explorer Browser is King Among IT Professionals at Work
    Midsize Insider / 5/8/13
    IT professionals are a diverse bunch but often come together around certain standards. Though the browser landscape is vast, IT professionals only chose a select few to work with and often make these decisions based on two factors: speed and compatibility ...
  • Google looks to spark iOS browser war with OpenInChrome function
    Apple Insider / 5/8/13
    Google looks to spark iOS browser war with OpenInChrome function. By Kevin Bostic. Google looks to be attempting to grow its mini-ecosystem on Apple's iOS platform, as the search giant is now enticing developers to have their apps open web links in its Chrome browser. chromed out. Google on ... Google's Chrome browser debuted to some degree of popularity, but the inability to set it as a default browsing app on iOS has relegated the browser to a very distant second place to Apple's Safari among iOS browsers.
  • US nuclear weapons researchers targeted with Internet Explorer virus
    RT / 5/7/13
    Hackers have exploited a flaw in the widely popular Internet Explorer browser that allowed them to target the computers of nuclear researchers within the United States. The party responsible for the recently discovered security flaw in the IE 8 browser has yet ...
  • Internet Explorer 0-day attacks on US nuke workers hit 9 other sites
    Ars Technica / 5/6/13
    Attacks exploiting a previously unknown and currently unpatched vulnerability in Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser have spread to at least nine other websites, including those run by a big European company operating in the aerospace, defense, and ...
  • Internet Explorer 10 climbs to 6.02% in market share as of April 2013, catching ...
    WinBeta / 5/1/13
    April 2013 has come to a close and its time to see how well Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser did against its competitors, Google's Chrome and Mozilla's Firefox. Internet Explorer has actually gone down by 0.02% in market share when compared to the ...
  • IE 10 doubles its share of desktop browser market
    CNET / 5/1/13
    ... desktop browser market. The latest version of IE now claims 6 percent of the browser desktop market, according to Net Applications. ... Among the rival browsers in general, IE holds the overall lead with almost 56 percent of the market. Firefox takes second ...
  • IE10 Doubles Share of Browser Market
    Datamation / 5/1/13
    NetApplications has published its browser market statistics for April, and the big story is that Microsoft's Internet Explorer 10 (IE10) doubled its market share. IE remained most popular desktop browser, while Apple's Safari continued its reign as the most ...
  • UCWeb eyes top spot in Indian mobile browser market
    Times of India / 4/24/13
    China-based mobile internet browser company UCWeb today said it aims to become the number one mobile browser in the country by the end of this year. "We currently hold more than 25% of market share of the mobile browser market in India. We aim to ...
  • Microsoft And The Hunger Games Partner Up To Promote Internet Explorer
    Ubergizmo / 4/15/13
    I am not quite sure about you, but seriously, how many folks do you know still use Internet Explorer voluntarily as the browser of their choice? Well, Microsoft certainly wants to continue pushing the legacy of the once all conquering Internet Explorer browser by ...
  • Browser war brewing: Google ditches Webkit for Blink, Mozilla partners with ...
    TechSpot / 4/4/13
    But with Google controlling a majority of the browser market share on desktop and mobile combined -- 38% according to StatCounter -- maybe they feel confident enough to part ways with Apple. There's still work to be done before that can happen, however.
  User Comments  
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Great info but last 3 months stacked in one category. Can this be fixed?

Anonymous 3/13/13 2:26PM

This seems to be the most useful site around for such metrics, but the information is severely impacted by monthly 100% alignment to one line item. Can this be fixed? (again...)

Anonymous 9/11/12 7:26AM

Hey StatOwl team - could you revise the stats, fixing the prior 2 months? They are reporting 100% under one category - an issue that seems to occur repetitively, rendering the information unusable. Thanks!

Anonymous 7/16/12 7:47AM

Note, February and March stats are reporting one grouping. The same issue has occurred in prior months, hope it can be resolved, as this site is chock full of good info!

Anonymous 4/13/12 12:42PM

fd - probably a lot of possible reasons for the discrepancy. My company manages numerous sites and the usage trends differ greatly based upon each user audience. A site appealing to techies will typically rank higher in FireFox, Linux, etc., while sites with broader appeal typically closely resemble the stats shown on this site.

Johnny5 6/4/09 2:14PM

This doesn't reflect what I am seeing on our site at a university. Registering ~700,000 external visits (excluding internal visitors) in the month of May we saw 40% using IE 7, but only 10.5% using IE 6. Firefox was over 31% and Safari was over 13%. Quite a difference from what is reported here.

fd 6/4/09 1:04PM

@Dardoz

w3cschools stats are based on their own visitors, not globaly

Anonymous 6/2/09 8:24AM

This doesn't exactly tally up with the w3c schools stats here:

http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_stats.asp

Dardoz 6/2/09 8:11AM