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Firefox achieves 100% market share in over 14% of continents

21 points by kirubakaran 18y ago

throw_away 18y ago
I'm sure that this has been noted, but in this graph: http://gs.statcounter.com/#browser_version-ww-daily-20090101-20090306 http://gs.statcounter.com/#browser_version-ww-daily-20090101... it's interesting to see how ie6's number dips down every weekend---presumably due to office workers under corporate mandates during the week and left to their own devices on saturday and sunday.
- ROFISH 18y ago
  Interestingly, there's the same weekend bump for Vista over XP. http://gs.statcounter.com/#os-ww-daily-20090101-20090306 http://gs.statcounter.com/#os-ww-daily-20090101-20090306
  - whughes 18y ago
    Not the same bump -- Vista is bundled with IE7. Presumably we are looking at bumps for different segments of the population, using Vista and XP/IE6 respectively.
truebosko 18y ago
I didn't know Europe was so heavy into Firefox, a major difference between other parts of the world.
- DEinspanjer 18y ago
  Yep. Germany is the second largest country for Firefox usage. US 27% Germany 11% France 5%
  - aodhan 18y ago
    Where did you get your figures from? According to StatCounter Global Stats, for Germany in February 2009 Firefox usage was at 58% and IE usage was at 34%. http://gs.statcounter.com/#browser-DE-monthly-200902-200902-bar http://gs.statcounter.com/#browser-DE-monthly-200902-200902-...
    - DEinspanjer 18y ago
      Sorry for the confusion. I was referring to the percentage of average daily Firefox usage by country. e.g. 27% of Firefox usage originates in the US, 11% from Germany, etc. The numbers you are quoting are the percentage of a sampling of all internet users in Germany who use Firefox v.s. IE.
tvon 18y ago
90% of statistics are 100% B.S..
- tlrobinson 18y ago
  But 5 out of 4 people don't understand fractions anyway.
zain 18y ago
Summary: Firefox has 100% marketshare in one continent, Antarctica, out of what is most likely a very tiny sample size. Please stop with the linkbait titles.
- alecst 18y ago
  I think you missed the joke.
  - deleted 18y ago
    [deleted]
  - Raphael 18y ago
    I think he got it but has no sense of humor.
    - unalone 18y ago
      I think he got it, and thinks it's very stupid to submit a story that's already been on Hacker News with a title that manages at once to both make something look overblown, and to make a stupid lame joke that's below the standards of this site. Perhaps I have no sense of humor either.
simoncoggins 18y ago
I'm not sure which clients would indicate they were browsing from Antarctica. All the British stations use a satellite link to the British Antarctic Survey headquarters in Cambridge, UK. The link to the Antarctic is transparent to the outside world so all browsing down on the stations (and ships) appears to come from a Cambridge IP address. I'm sure many of the other Antarctic stations work the same way. The VoIP phone system works the same way so you can ring the station using a "local" Cambridge number. This often lead to strange conversations when people dialled the wrong number and found out they had accidentally phoned the Antarctic.
- DEinspanjer 18y ago
  That is an interesting issue, and one I've never considered before cause I just took the data from MaxMind for granted. I work for Mozilla crunching numbers. There isn't any way I could share any IP addresses of course. If you pull down the data from MaxMind and do a search for AQ, you'll see a set of IP address ranges that are recorded as being located in Antarctica. We get a small amount of traffic from IP addresses in those ranges.
noamsml 18y ago
Why the FUCK does that graph go to 110%?
mindaugas 18y ago
checkout russian federation - Opera has largest market share! This is really wierd ... At least after 2009 01 01
- slater 18y ago
  It seems that statcounter was having trouble figuring out Opera usage, check out the wild swings in this graph: http://gs.statcounter.com/#browser-RU-daily-20080701-20090306 http://gs.statcounter.com/#browser-RU-daily-20080701-2009030... Either IE dropped by 15% overnight, last September (with Opera taking those 15%), or SC figured a way around Opera's IE cloaking. Or maybe a new version of Opera came out that had Opera set by default as its UA string? Anyone know?
  - DEinspanjer 18y ago
    Opera has several different levels of cloaking, and it can really through a UA parser for a loop. Opera can declare itself solely as Opera, or as IE but still mention that it is Opera, or as Firefox but still mention it is Opera, or as IE or Firefox without mentioning it is Opera, or whatever the user wants to type in there to be clever.
- chorny 18y ago
  Opera is very popular in Russia and other CIS countries.

21 points by kirubakaran 18y ago

I'm sure that this has been noted, but in this graph: http://gs.statcounter.com/#browser_version-ww-daily-20090101-20090306 http://gs.statcounter.com/#browser_version-ww-daily-20090101... it's interesting to see how ie6's number dips down every weekend---presumably due to office workers under corporate mandates during the week and left to their own devices on saturday and sunday.

ROFISH 18y ago
Interestingly, there's the same weekend bump for Vista over XP. http://gs.statcounter.com/#os-ww-daily-20090101-20090306 http://gs.statcounter.com/#os-ww-daily-20090101-20090306
- whughes 18y ago
  Not the same bump -- Vista is bundled with IE7. Presumably we are looking at bumps for different segments of the population, using Vista and XP/IE6 respectively.

truebosko 18y ago

I didn't know Europe was so heavy into Firefox, a major difference between other parts of the world.

DEinspanjer 18y ago
Yep. Germany is the second largest country for Firefox usage. US 27% Germany 11% France 5%
- aodhan 18y ago
  Where did you get your figures from? According to StatCounter Global Stats, for Germany in February 2009 Firefox usage was at 58% and IE usage was at 34%. http://gs.statcounter.com/#browser-DE-monthly-200902-200902-bar http://gs.statcounter.com/#browser-DE-monthly-200902-200902-...
  - DEinspanjer 18y ago
    Sorry for the confusion. I was referring to the percentage of average daily Firefox usage by country. e.g. 27% of Firefox usage originates in the US, 11% from Germany, etc. The numbers you are quoting are the percentage of a sampling of all internet users in Germany who use Firefox v.s. IE.

tvon 18y ago

90% of statistics are 100% B.S..

tlrobinson 18y ago
But 5 out of 4 people don't understand fractions anyway.

zain 18y ago

Summary: Firefox has 100% marketshare in one continent, Antarctica, out of what is most likely a very tiny sample size. Please stop with the linkbait titles.

alecst 18y ago
I think you missed the joke.
- deleted 18y ago
  [deleted]
- Raphael 18y ago
  I think he got it but has no sense of humor.
  - unalone 18y ago
    I think he got it, and thinks it's very stupid to submit a story that's already been on Hacker News with a title that manages at once to both make something look overblown, and to make a stupid lame joke that's below the standards of this site. Perhaps I have no sense of humor either.

simoncoggins 18y ago

I'm not sure which clients would indicate they were browsing from Antarctica. All the British stations use a satellite link to the British Antarctic Survey headquarters in Cambridge, UK. The link to the Antarctic is transparent to the outside world so all browsing down on the stations (and ships) appears to come from a Cambridge IP address. I'm sure many of the other Antarctic stations work the same way. The VoIP phone system works the same way so you can ring the station using a "local" Cambridge number. This often lead to strange conversations when people dialled the wrong number and found out they had accidentally phoned the Antarctic.

DEinspanjer 18y ago
That is an interesting issue, and one I've never considered before cause I just took the data from MaxMind for granted. I work for Mozilla crunching numbers. There isn't any way I could share any IP addresses of course. If you pull down the data from MaxMind and do a search for AQ, you'll see a set of IP address ranges that are recorded as being located in Antarctica. We get a small amount of traffic from IP addresses in those ranges.

noamsml 18y ago

Why the FUCK does that graph go to 110%?

mindaugas 18y ago

checkout russian federation - Opera has largest market share! This is really wierd ... At least after 2009 01 01

slater 18y ago
It seems that statcounter was having trouble figuring out Opera usage, check out the wild swings in this graph: http://gs.statcounter.com/#browser-RU-daily-20080701-20090306 http://gs.statcounter.com/#browser-RU-daily-20080701-2009030... Either IE dropped by 15% overnight, last September (with Opera taking those 15%), or SC figured a way around Opera's IE cloaking. Or maybe a new version of Opera came out that had Opera set by default as its UA string? Anyone know?
- DEinspanjer 18y ago
  Opera has several different levels of cloaking, and it can really through a UA parser for a loop. Opera can declare itself solely as Opera, or as IE but still mention that it is Opera, or as Firefox but still mention it is Opera, or as IE or Firefox without mentioning it is Opera, or whatever the user wants to type in there to be clever.
chorny 18y ago
Opera is very popular in Russia and other CIS countries.