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Statcounter measures the amount of browsing, not unique people. Netmarketshare attempts to measure the latter and shows IE on top. http://www.netmarketshare.c

Statcounter measures the amount of browsing, not unique people. Netmarketshare attempts to measure the latter and shows IE on top. http://www.netmarketshare.com/browser-market-share.aspx?qprid=1 http://www.netmarketshare.com/browser-market-share.aspx?qpri... So it depends on what your definition of "popular browser" is. Is it the browser that's used by most people? That would be IE. Is it the browser that most browsing happens? That would be Chrome. Of course, this is ignoring the fact that both Statcounter and Netmarketshare are not perfect and don't cover all or even most sites' logs. As others have noted, W3schools only measures hits to the W3Schools site, which is not even close to be being representative of the web.

jamesaguilar 13y ago
To be honest, I mostly wanted to comment to share my anecdote and make a Prince reference. I'm not really trying to make an argument one way or another for browser popularity. BTW, I personally think the browsing-time metric is better than unique-users, because applying the latter metric to music would have had Rebecca Black as the most popular artist of 2011. Which conclusion, though true under some definitions, might not be quite as useful as other possible conclusions.
- victorf 13y ago
  After I read that she donated the money from her YouTube to a charity to help Japan, she became my favorite pop artist of 2011. I do concede that you're right in general.