Usage share, in web browser statistics, is the percentage of visitors to a group of web sites that use a particular browser. For example, when it is said that Internet Explorer has 85% usage share, it means that Internet Explorer is used by 85% of visitors that visit a given set of sites. Typically, the user agent string is used to identify which browser a visitor is using.
Check out the following site to view this month’s browser market share, giving developers an idea what browsers to cover in their cross-browser, cross-platform testing.
OneStat.com provides tracker services to more than 50,000 sites in 100 countries. It publishes press releases every few months. According to OneStat’s July 2006 press release, Internet Explorer’s global market share had fallen to 83.05%, while Mozilla-based browsers had risen to 12.93%. The press release includes a breakdown of the most popular browsers in the USA, Canada, UK, Australia, Germany, France, Italy, Belgium and the Netherlands.
