| Firefox continues to gain on IE |
Jul. 14, 2006
Amsterdam-based web analytics firm OneStat reported this week that the combined usage share of Firefox and Mozilla browsers (now mostly Firefox) has climbed to nearly 13 percent worldwide, and almost 16 percent in the U.S.
OneStat, a consultancy that also offers free hit-counting software, said that usage share of Microsoft's Internet Explorer series -- including the new IE7 betas -- dropped by 2.12 percent in the last 60 days.
Mozilla/Firefox's share climbed about a percentage point during that same period.
Usage share is a very different metric from market-share numbers, which would track the number -- and brand -- of browsers installed on users' systems.
Mozilla Corp. spokeswoman Elizabeth Anderson told DesktopLinux.com that the company doesn't comment on market-share questions.
OneStat said its figures are determined scientifically by registering the identification reported by browsers that visit websites whose publishers are OneStat's customers, and normalizing that figure against Internet traffic numbers worldwide.
According to OneStat's charting of major countries, Canada shows a Firefox usage of about 14.6 percent against IE's 80.1 percent, while IEs numbers are higher in the UK (86.2 percent over Firefox's 11.6 percent).
Firefox is especially popular in Australia (24.2 percent versus IE's 69.3 percent) and in Germany, where Firefox has 39 percent versus IE's 56 percent.
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