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The same wikipedia page gives the methodology applied for those calculations. - StatsCounter (hits, not unique visitors) - W3Counter (last 15,000 views from 5

by jeswin 13y ago

The same wikipedia page gives the methodology applied for those calculations. - StatsCounter (hits, not unique visitors) - W3Counter (last 15,000 views from 50,000 websites) - Net Applications (stats from 40k websites having 160 million unique visitors per month) - Wikipedia (page requests) Only NetApplications is using unique visitor stats, the rest are tracking views. The results are in line with what most people would assume; Chrome and Firefox users are more active users. But in terms of number of unique visitors IE is still far ahead.

trycatch 13y ago
> The results are in line with what most people would assume; Chrome and Firefox users are more active users. It's not true. top.mail.ru (large Russian counter, ~250M views per day) publishes both number of visitors and number of views. Visits/visitor ratio are about the same for different browser families. Also, stats from top.mail.ru are very similar to the stats from StatCounter on Russian Federation [2], while Net Applications hide their per country totals behind pay wall, and their China-weighted totals are completely outlandish. [1] http://top.mail.ru/browsers?id=250&period=0&date=&aggregation=sum&#sids=chrome,mob,firefox,opera,msie&percent=0 http://top.mail.ru/browsers?id=250&period=0&date=&aggregatio... [2] http://gs.statcounter.com/#browser-RU-monthly-201210-201310 http://gs.statcounter.com/#browser-RU-monthly-201210-201310
lucideer 13y ago
The same wikipedia page has a lengthy discussion on the questionable nature of NetApplication's stats: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Usage_share_of_web_browsers#NetApplications http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Usage_share_of_web_browser...