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Relative numbers: https://gs.statcounter.com/browser-market-share/desktop/worldwide/#monthly-201509-202009 https://gs.statcounter.com/browser-market-share/deskt
by devenblake 6y ago
Relative numbers: https://gs.statcounter.com/browser-market-share/desktop/worldwide/#monthly-201509-202009 https://gs.statcounter.com/browser-market-share/desktop/worl...
Absolute numbers: https://data.firefox.com/dashboard/user-activity https://data.firefox.com/dashboard/user-activity
The numbers are worse when you look at American data alone. It looks like Firefox is slowly shedding users. Probably because of Mozilla's questionable practices recently (the enlarged awesome bar, the layoffs, etc).
- berkes 6y agoMaybe I am missing a zoom function, or the visualisation is poor, but I see an almost flat curve, in some cases even slightly upwards (hours per day, probably Covid/work-from-home effect?). US data does show a very small downtrend on some graphs, but so small, that it hardly counts as "trend", IMO.
- devenblake 6y agoAccording to statcounter in September 2016 Firefox had a roughly 15% market share. It now has roughly 9%. In America it's 13.7% down to 7.1%. The monthly active users chart for Firefox shows that the last time there were 250M+ active users was April 2019 and the last time there were 240M+ active was October of that year. The graph as presented shows a very slight curve downward, it would be more clear if the Y axis started at 200M (which would however bring about its own caveats - data visualization sucks).
- gilrain 6y agoFirefox usage is flat or slightly trending down. However, overall internet usage grows each year, which means their market share is shrinking.
- bzbarsky 6y agoNote that StatCounter measures "page views", not "users". They're proportional if all users use the web an equal amount, but that last bit is just not true.