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> How does Net Apps measure browser market share that they get such huge difference for IE, which they put at 54%, compared to StatCounter who puts it at around
by azakai 14y ago
> How does Net Apps measure browser market share that they get such huge difference for IE, which they put at 54%, compared to StatCounter who puts it at around 30%? To me the StatCounter numbers seem more accurate.
Apples and oranges. Net Applications measures users, while StatCounter measures usage. It is entirely possible both are right, and the different numbers are both accurate about what they measure.
It is also possible one or both is wrong, possibly by a large amount - we don't have any good data against which to validate them (that data exists, but it isn't public - Google and Facebook know the truth).
- mtgx 14y agoNet Apps seems to be doing it the other way around for mobile browsers, though. Because iOS always comes out with something like 60% market share, and Android with 20%, even though there are more Android devices than iOS devices now, but the iPad browser usage is much higher than the browser usage of any phone, and Android doesn't have that many tablets in the market yet.
- mddw 14y agoThe numbers that matter are your websites' numbers and no others. I had to make a website for a brand with strong sales in China. The client asked for a full IE6 support "because chinese use IE6 according to X and Y." IE6 support is expensive. I was quite doubtful, the brand is a luxury one, kinda confidential, so the user had to belong to the new rich class which can afford a real computer. But they did not have any data and did not want me to gather data on their actual website to confirm or infirm my hypothesis. The IE6 friendly website lauched. The stats reports less than 4% IE7 and less usage (including funny browser derived from IE.)