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Anyone know how they estimate the market shares of various browsers? On an average day, I'll use Firefox 3, Chrome, IE7 and sometimes Konqueror & IE8. How wou

• jacquesm 18y ago
  Most of the estimation is done by log analysis, hitlinks.com is one such party, they have a panel of several 10's of thousands of sites that they get browser information for. If you have a large enough portfolio of sites then you can do your own analysis. It doesn't look like you are a 'typical' user, who will use a single browser only unless they run into some kind of compatibility problem.
• russell 18y ago
  Nearly any site using a web analytics package will collect browser statistics, even to the version number. Even better if you aggregate the statistics from a number of sites with different user demographics. For example, just the Apple site or the Mozilla site would give you skewed statistics. Most analytics packages will find unique users over a specified time period. Given that you use all your browsers at the participating sites, you would be counted as a unique user for all 5 browsers, distorting the statics somewhere off in the 6th or 7th decimal place.
• michaelneale 18y ago
  I think you would be an unusual outlier ;) As are we all ! So I guess that would end up as noise in the stats?
• kaiserama 18y ago
  Do you use the different browsers to test functionality or because different sites you visit function better with each browser? Just curious, as I pretty much only use FF3, but I will test my sites on FF3, Safari, Chrome, Opera, IE6 and IE7...in which case I would assume they wouldn't get counted as I'm doing internal testing.