Browser usage

According to the fairly reliable OneStat browser usage statistics, Internet Explorer has a usage share of 95% while Gecko-based browsers like Mozilla and Netscape have a global share of only 3.5%.

It’s a shame they report no information on the distribution of browser usage across the sample. On this site 44% of all visitors use Internet Explorer and 37% is using a Mozilla browser.

My weblog is primarily of interest to a more geeky audience and I actively encourage IE users to give Mozilla a try. However, one of my company’s more mainstream projects, the Dutch RSS channel listing Syndicatie.nl, still sees a 14% browser usage share for Mozilla and 72% for Internet Explorer.

To my surprise, much bigger sites also see increasing Mozilla usage. Germany’s most visited news site reports a usage share of 15%, while the Internet Explorer share went down to 84%, calculated from a 125 million lines logfile sample.

Could this be a trend?

Note: If you were looking at this page in a more modern browser like Mozilla Firefox or Safari, it would look and work better and faster.
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