Usage share of web browsers in April 2025 according to StatCounter

The usage share of web browsers is the portion, often expressed as a percentage, of visitors to a group of web sites that use a particular web browser.

Accuracy

Measuring browser usage in the number of requests (page hits) made by each user agent can be misleading.

Overestimation

Not all requests are generated by a user, as a user agent can make requests at regular time intervals without user input. In this case, the user's activity might be overestimated. Some examples:

  • Certain anti-virus products fake their user agent string to appear to be popular browsers. This is done to trick attack sites that might display clean content to the scanner, but not to the browser.The Register reported in June 2008 that traffic from AVG Linkscanner, using an IE6 user agent string, outstripped human link clicks by nearly 10 to 1.
  • A user who revisits a site shortly after changing or upgrading browsers may be double-counted under some methods; overall numbers at the time of a new version's release may be skewed.
  • Occasionally websites are written in such a way that they effectively block certain browsers. One common reason for this is that the website has been tested to work with only a limited number of browsers, and so the site owners enforce that only tested browsers are allowed to view the content, while all other browsers are sent a "failure" message, and instruction to use another browser. Many of the untested browsers may still be otherwise capable of rendering the content. Sophisticated users who are aware of this may then "spoof" the user agent string in order to gain access to the site.
  • Firefox, Chrome, Safari, and Opera will, under some circumstances, fetch resources before they need to render them, so that the resources can be used faster if they are needed. This technique, prerendering or pre-loading, may inflate the statistics for the browsers using it because of pre-loading of resources which are not used in the end.

Underestimation

It is also possible to underestimate the usage share by using the number of requests, for example:

  • Firefox 1.5 (and other Gecko-based browsers) and later versions use fast Document Object Model (DOM) caching. JavaScript is executed on page load only from net or disk cache, but not if it is loaded from DOM cache. This can affect JavaScript-based tracking of browser statistics.
  • While most browsers generate additional page hits by refreshing web pages when the user navigates back through page history, some browsers (such as Opera) reuse cached content without resending requests to the server.
  • Generally, the more faithfully a browser implements HTTP's cache specifications, the more it will be under-reported relative to browsers that implement those specifications poorly.
  • Browser users may run site, cookie and JavaScript blockers which cause those users to be under-counted. For example, common AdBlock blocklists such as EasyBlock include sites such as StatCounter in their privacy lists, and NoScript blocks all JavaScript by default. The Firefox Add-ons website reports 15.0 million users of AdBlock variants and 2.2 million users of NoScript.
  • Users behind a caching proxy (e.g. Squid) may have repeat requests for certain pages served to the browser from the cache, rather than retrieving it again via the Internet.

User agent spoofing

Websites often include code to detect the browser version to adjust the page design sent according to the user agent string received. This may mean that less popular browsers are not sent complex content (even though they might be able to deal with it correctly) or, in extreme cases, refused all content. Thus, various browsers have a feature to cloak or spoof their identification to force certain server-side content.

  • Default user agent strings of most browsers have pieces of strings from one or more other browsers, so that if the browser is unknown to a website, it can be identified as one of those. For example, Safari has not only "Mozilla/5.0", but also "KHTML" (from which Safari's WebKit was forked) and "Gecko" (the engine of Firefox).
  • Some Linux browsers such as GNOME Web identify themselves as Safari in order to aid compatibility.

Differences in measurement

Net Applications, a web analytics firm, in their NetMarketShare report, uses unique visitors to measure web usage. The effect is that users visiting a site ten times will only be counted once by these sources, while they are counted ten times by statistics companies that measure page hits. The statistics released by the company routinely place operating systems sold by Microsoft (Windows) and Apple (Mac OS X) with a high market share in the desktop computer category (through 2013). Vincent Vizzaccaro (EVP – Marketing and Strategic Alliances, Net Applications, 2002–present) has stated that Microsoft and Apple are among the company's clients. The company has also admitted that their statistics are skewed.

Net Applications uses country-level weighting as well. The goal of weighting countries based on their usage is to mitigate selection area based sampling bias. This bias is caused by the differences in the percentage of tracked hits in the sample, and the percentage of global usage tracked by third party sources. This difference is caused by the heavier levels of market usage.

Statistics from the United States government's Digital Analytics Program (DAP) do not represent world-wide usage patterns. DAP uses raw data from a unified Google Analytics account.

Summary tables

The following tables summarize the usage share of all browsers for the indicated months.

Usage share of all browsers
BrowserNetMarketShare October 2024StatCounter August 2025Wikimedia May 2025Cloudflare May 2025
Chrome66.64%69.26%56.2%68%
Safari13.92%14.98%24.1%20%
Edge4.55%4.99%5.11%5.7%
Firefox2.18%2.26%5.83%3.6%
Samsung Internet3.04%1.97%1.9%1.8%
Opera3.02%1.85%0.92%1.5%
Others4.69%
Usage share of desktop browsers
BrowserW3Counter October 2024NetMarketShare October 2024StatCounter October 2024Wikimedia October 2024
Chrome68.6%79.44%65.24%56.1%
Safari15.2%3.31%9.06%9.4%
Edge3.7%12.19%13.56%11.6%
Firefox2.8%3.27%6.39%15.3%
Opera1.1%0.67%3.2%2.4%
Others2.55%
Usage share of mobile browsers
BrowserNetMarketShare October 2024StatCounter October 2024Wikimedia October 2024
Chrome55.78%68%51.4%
Safari33.11%23.01%31.9%
Samsung Internet2.70%3.62%3.5%
UC0.13%1.37%0.1%
Opera0.49%1.64%0.6%
Firefox0.37%0.51%1.6%
Others0.68%
Usage share of tablet browsers
BrowserNetMarketShare October 2024Statcounter October 2024
Chrome14.90%50.56%
Safari84.83%33.4%
AOSP13.3%
Edge0.95%
Opera0.78%
Others1.02%

Crossover to smartphones having majority share

According to StatCounter web use statistics (a proxy for all use), in the week from 7–13 November 2016, "mobile" (meaning smartphones) alone (without tablets) overtook desktop for the first time and by the end of the year smartphones were in the majority. Since 27 October, the desktop has not shown a majority, even on weekdays.

Previously, according to StatCounter press release, the world has become desktop-minority; as of October 2016[update], there was about 49% of desktop usage for that month. The two biggest continents, Asia and Africa, have been mobile-majority for a while, and Australia is by now desktop-minority too. A few countries in Europe and South America have also followed this trend of being mobile-majority.

In March 2015, for the first time in the US the number of mobile-only adult internet users exceeded the number of desktop-only internet users with 11.6% of the digital population only using mobile compared to 10.6% only using desktop; this also means the majority, 78%, use both desktop and mobile to access the internet.

Older reports (2000–2019)

StatCounter (Jan 2009 to October 2019)

Usage share of web browsers according to StatCounter from 2008-07 to 2019-05

StatCounter statistics are directly derived from hits (not unique visitors) from 3 million sites using StatCounter totaling more than 15 billion hits per month. No weightings are used.

Global Desktop stats from (Top 5 browsers)
DateChromeFirefoxSafariInternet ExplorerEdge LegacyOtherMobile
68.91%9.25%8.68%4.45%4.51%4.20%
69.08%9.54%7.41%4.99%4.71%4.27%
71.15%9.52%5.80%4.40%4.71%4.43%
71.05%9.52%5.41%5.00%4.60%4.41%
70.71%9.76%5.64%5.03%4.50%4.36%
69.09%10.01%7.25%5.14%4.32%4.21%
69.55%9.78%6.91%5.16%4.37%4.23%
69.52%9.58%6.46%5.44%4.56%4.44%
71.58%8.72%5.77%5.34%4.34%4.24%
70.88%9.50%5.15%5.74%4.41%4.32%
70.95%10.05%5.06%5.40%4.17%4.38%
72.38%9.10%5.06%5.38%4.00%4.07%
69.64%10.14%5.61%6.01%4.21%4.38%
67.88%10.94%5.58%6.45%4.36%4.78%
67.66%10.96%5.13%6.97%4.24%5.03%
67.60%11.23%5.01%6.97%4.19%5.00%
66.87%11.44%5.38%7.13%4.16%5.02%
66.93%11.55%5.48%6.97%4.15%4.92%
66.17%11.78%5.48%7.17%4.26%5.14%
66.93%11.60%5.37%7.02%4.18%4.90%
67.49%11.54%5.42%6.91%4.04%4.60%
65.98%11.87%5.87%7.28%4.11%4.88%
64.72%12.21%6.29%7.71%4.18%4.88%
64.02%12.55%6.08%8.47%4.29%4.59%
63.60%13.04%5.89%8.34%4.43%4.69%
63.98%13.60%5.46%8.21%4.30%4.46%
63.58%13.73%5.51%8.61%3.95%4.61%
63.48%13.82%5.04%9.03%3.95%4.68%
63.23%13.98%5.15%9.28%3.89%4.47%
63.36%14.17%5.25%9.20%3.74%4.28%
63.45%14.53%5.20%9.00%3.71%4.11%
62.81%14.97%5.28%9.39%3.64%3.92%
62.95%14.81%5.34%9.62%3.68%3.60%
62.09%14.85%5.28%10.49%3.58%3.71%
62.38%15.43%4.59%10.67%3.04%3.85%
DateChromeInternet ExplorerFirefoxSafariOperaOtherMobile
57.75%16.00%15.95%4.60%2.03%3.68%
55.39%18.86%17.24%4.70%1.91%1.90%
51.72%21.16%18.70%4.94%1.67%1.81%
48.69%22.52%19.25%4.89%1.45%2.19%
46.60%24.65%20.39%5.09%1.32%1.96%
45.40%26.50%21.31%4.80%1.11%1.32%
38.08%32.25%22.47%5.12%1.22%0.86%
33.81%32.04%23.73%7.12%1.72%1.58%
28.40%37.45%24.78%6.62%1.95%0.79%
22.14%42.45%27.95%5.14%1.66%0.63%
15.68%46.00%30.68%5.09%2.00%0.55%
9.88%52.68%30.69%4.09%1.91%0.74%
6.04%55.25%31.64%3.76%2.00%1.31%
3.01%60.11%30.50%3.02%2.64%0.72%
1.38%65.41%27.03%2.57%2.92%0.70%

W3Counter (May 2007 to December 2022)

This site counts the last 15,000 page views from each of approximately 80,000 websites. This limits the influence of sites with more than 15,000 monthly visitors on the usage statistics. W3Counter is not affiliated with the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C).

Global Web Stats from
DateGoogle ChromeSafariInternet Explorer & EdgeFirefoxOpera
71.2%15.1%3.7%3.0%1.3%
67.9%17.2%4.2%3.3%1.5%
66.7%17.7%4.4%3.2%1.5%
69.2%15.6%4.2%3.4%1.2%
69.9%15.7%3.7%3.5%1.1%
68.7%16.9%3.4%3.6%1.3%
68.3%16.3%3.3%3.8%1.3%
71.6%15.2%3.8%2.6%1.1%
70.2%15.4%4.8%2.8%1.1%
64.9%15.4%6.3%4.1%2.5%
67.9%16.2%5.5%3.2%1.4%
64.4%17.0%6.1%4.0%1.4%
66.0%16.9%5.2%3.2%1.5%
66.6%16.4%5.2%3.2%1.3%
65.4%16.5%5.9%3.6%1.2%
63.3%17.7%5.4%5.8%1.3%
62.9%17.7%4.9%4.8%1.1%
65.7%16.6%4.7%2.9%1.1%
65.3%16.7%5.2%3.3%1.4%
65.2%16.6%4.9%3.2%1.4%
65.3%16.7%5.7%4.1%1.6%
65.2%17.5%5.6%4.4%1.6%
65.3%17.1%5.6%4.3%1.5%
65.3%17.0%5.6%4.1%1.5%
65.3%16.7%5.5%4.4%1.5%
66.1%17.1%5.3%4.5%1.5%
63.8%17.9%5.6%4.6%1.6%
62.6%18.0%6.3%4.8%1.6%
61.8%17.3%7.1%4.8%1.5%
61.0%16.1%8.9%5.0%1.6%
63.0%14.4%8.0%5.1%1.8%
63.7%13.6%6.3%4.5%2.1%
62.4%12.2%7.0%4.6%2.5%
59.3%12.3%9.1%4.5%3.0%
58.1%13.0%12.9%5.4%2.7%
58.2%17.7%7.1%5.5%2.6%
56.1%18.1%7.5%5.5%3.7%
59.2%14.6%9.6%6.1%3.5%
57.0%13.4%9.4%6.9%3.3%
58.7%12.5%8.1%6.3%3.0%
56.8%12.3%7.8%5.3%2.1%
55.4%12.5%8.6%6.5%2.8%
56.8%13.3%8.1%6.8%2.4%
57.4%13.5%6.8%6.8%2.4%
60.1%12.7%6.8%6.1%2.8%
65.4%13.6%6.2%6.3%3.0%
63.9%14.1%7.1%6.5%3.1%
64.5%14.3%7.0%6.3%3.0%
64.4%14.6%7.2%6.3%3.0%
64.7%14.2%7.4%6.7%3.0%
61.7%13.1%6.6%6.5%2.8%
62.2%13.4%6.3%7.1%3.0%
60.3%13.1%6.7%7.2%3.1%
57.8%14.0%5.9%6.0%3.7%
55.2%13.5%6.1%5.4%3.2%
56.6%14.7%7.1%6.5%3.5%
58.8%14.6%6.9%6.4%3.5%
60.6%15.4%7.6%7.2%2.9%
59.9%15.7%7.3%8.5%3.4%
58.4%15.3%7.8%9.1%3.9%
58.8%14.5%8.0%9.3%4.0%
59.2%14.3%8.1%9.3%4.0%
58.8%13.4%9.8%9.1%3.2%
57.0%13.2%11.2%9.1%3.2%
56.8%14.9%9.1%8.1%5.0%
64.0%13.6%8.0%6.8%3.2%
62.4%13.5%8.9%7.8%3.2%
58.1%14.9%9.7%9.0%3.0%
61.2%15.9%8.2%6.3%2.9%
58.9%15.2%7.2%7.2%3.8%
57.2%13.2%8.5%9.0%5.0%
58.4%13.3%8.1%9.5%4.4%
59.5%13.1%10.2%10.1%2.6%
47.3%20.7%12.3%11.4%3.2%
46.5%16.5%13.6%13.3%3.9%
43.2%15.2%17.3%15.3%3.1%
38.7%15.4%21.3%15.3%3.1%
34.3%17.9%20.4%18.4%2.7%
33.4%15.2%23.0%19.1%2.4%
30.1%14.8%27.6%20.1%2.3%
28.5%13.4%28.7%23.2%2.2%
25.3%6.7%31.8%25.5%2.5%
20.2%6.6%36.6%28.5%2.4%
14.6%6.0%41.1%31.9%2.1%
10.6%2.1%48.3%34.1%2.3%
6.4%5.5%50.6%32.9%2.2%
3.4%4.8%54.4%32.4%1.8%
0.2%2.8%60.2%32.1%2.0%
2.5%62.3%30.4%2.1%
2.8%63.1%29.1%2.0%
2.2%66.9%25.1%1.8%
2.4%67.7%25.0%1.8%
DateGoogle ChromeSafariInternet ExplorerFirefoxOpera

Net Applications (May 2016 to November 2019)

Net Applications bases its usage share on statistics from 40,000 websites having around 160 million unique visitors per month. The mean site has 1300 unique visitors per day.

Global usage share of desktop browsers data from:
PeriodChromeFirefoxInternet ExplorerEdge LegacySafariSogou ExplorerQQOperaYandexUC
67.15%8.15%6.81%5.97%5.29%1.78%1.66%1.28%0.81%0.40%
67.38%8.62%6.47%6.10%4.82%1.83%1.66%1.32%0.84%0.31%
68.33%8.68%6.30%5.93%4.26%1.59%1.45%1.42%0.98%0.34%
68.60%8.43%7.50%6.34%3.85%1.72%1.58%1.39%0.86%0.26%
67.22%8.34%7.44%5.80%3.40%1.70%1.52%1.43%0.88%0.34%
66.29%8.86%7.30%6.03%3.32%1.35%1.30%1.54%0.87%0.32%
67.90%9.46%7.70%5.36%3.30%1.47%1.33%1.52%0.95%0.39%
65.64%10.23%8.44%5.53%3.58%1.63%1.40%1.57%0.89%0.37%
67.88%9.27%7.34%5.20%3.69%1.50%1.33%1.65%0.97%0.44%
66.89%9.39%8.23%4.79%3.56%1.49%1.60%1.63%0.83%0.46%
67.29%9.92%7.94%4.61%4.00%1.24%1.31%1.60%0.80%0.44%
67.18%9.58%8.31%4.09%3.71%1.69%1.71%1.68%0.68%0.51%
65.57%8.96%9.64%4.22%3.74%1.73%1.68%1.56%0.67%0.55%
66.43%9.25%9.48%4.28%3.74%1.43%1.53%1.55%0.63%0.49%
66.28%9.62%9.94%4.08%3.59%1.23%1.20%1.61%0.59%0.60%
65.21%9.76%10.86%4.30%3.65%1.15%1.14%1.66%0.64%0.52%
64.67%9.68%11.15%4.21%3.49%1.49%1.55%1.58%0.46%0.60%
62.77%10.12%12.22%4.25%3.70%1.45%1.49%1.58%0.56%0.59%
62.85%9.92%11.82%4.26%3.71%1.47%1.55%1.67%0.58%0.75%
61.77%10.52%12.20%4.46%3.94%1.60%1.72%1.50%0.72%0.80%
61.77%10.52%12.20%4.46%3.94%1.49%1.38%1.45%0.65%0.66%
61.55%11.15%11.66%4.44%4.39%1.32%1.21%1.73%0.72%0.63%
61.41%10.85%11.84%4.67%4.18%1.64%1.20%1.60%0.62%0.71%
60.57%11.02%12.36%4.61%4.00%1.79%1.47%1.56%0.58%0.76%
60.61%11.42%12.04%4.21%3.85%1.84%1.53%1.51%0.77%0.78%
59.99%11.71%12.25%4.06%3.78%1.92%1.80%1.41%0.55%0.70%
60.67%13.26%11.80%3.71%3.54%1.70%1.28%1.38%0.55%0.66%
61.05%12.26%12.07%3.67%3.14%1.74%1.70%1.52%0.59%0.74%
59.65%12.59%12.96%3.78%3.22%1.72%1.64%1.58%0.61%0.82%
60.08%12.53%12.75%3.80%3.24%1.66%1.40%1.55%0.66%0.97%
58.92%12.90%12.91%3.97%3.38%1.81%1.32%1.56%0.91%0.78%
55.95%13.13%14.41%3.97%3.35%1.86%1.98%1.77%1.29%0.72%
55.81%15.50%14.61%3.63%3.26%1.69%0.96%1.93%0.38%0.78%
59.17%14.88%11.82%3.22%3.13%1.32%0.84%1.59%0.52%0.61%
56.65%15.56%14.93%3.32%3.43%1.33%0.85%1.41%0.36%0.52%
55.50%15.27%14.79%2.97%4.57%1.34%0.79%1.61%0.86%0.32%
56.20%14.79%14.89%2.31%4.67%1.05%0.60%2.95%0.50%0.31%

Wikimedia (April 2009 to March 2015)

Usage in Wikimedia during 2012

Wikimedia traffic analysis reports are based on server logs of about 4 billion page requests per month, based on the user agent information that accompanied the requests. These server logs cover requests to all the Wikimedia Foundation projects, including Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons, Wiktionary, Wikibooks, Wikiquote, Wikisource, Wikinews, Wikiversity and others.

Note: Wikimedia has recently[when?] had a large percentage of unrecognised browsers, previously counted as Firefox, that are now assumed to be Internet Explorer 11 fixed in the February 2014 and later numbers. And February 2014 numbers include mobile for Internet Explorer and Firefox (not included in Android). Chrome did not include the mobile numbers at that time while Android does since there was an "Android browser" that was the default browser at that time.

Usage share data from Wikimedia visitor log analysis report: All Requests
PeriodChromeFirefoxInternet ExplorerSafariOperaAndroidMobile Total
DesktopMobileTotalDesktopMobileTotal
March 201529.61%14.23%10.86%2.97%16.68%19.65%0.65%1.41%2.06%17.45%38.37%
February 2014 18 March 2014 at the Wayback Machine27.94%12.00%17.01%3.83%17.97%21.80%1.50%1.27%2.77%12.59%35.03%
January 201427.32%18.15%11.78%3.88%19.41%23.29%1.51%1.32%2.83%12.89%35.01%
December 201330.70%17.90%11.48%3.45%18.03%21.48%1.54%1.32%2.86%11.52%32.20%
November 201335.04%17.37%13.80%2.52%15.17%17.69%1.49%1.16%2.65%9.45%26.99%
October 201333.93%16.12%15.46%2.36%14.34%16.70%1.53%1.17%2.70%9.00%26.32%
August 201331.07%17.17%15.98%2.69%15.92%18.61%1.87%1.14%3.01%9.18%28.25%
July 201332.33%16.90%15.65%2.63%15.66%18.29%2.06%1.18%3.24%8.56%27.38%
June 201335.16%17.83%15.93%2.37%13.13%15.50%2.18%1.10%3.28%6.45%22.32%
May 201335.23%17.79%16.99%2.19%12.63%14.82%2.41%1.14%3.55%6.32%21.83%
April 201334.16%18.16%16.95%2.31%13.61%15.92%2.42%1.18%3.60%6.55%23.13%
March 201333.22%16.28%17.03%4.34%13.59%17.93%2.55%1.18%3.73%6.51%23.13%
February 201332.21%16.80%18.27%4.56%13.06%17.62%2.57%1.21%3.78%6.25%22.44%
January 201331.34%17.61%18.68%4.64%12.66%17.30%2.72%1.16%3.88%6.01%21.71%
July 2012 21 August 2012 at the Wayback Machine27.20%19.23%23.70%4.88%10.60%15.48%3.00%1.50%4.50%4.55%18.19%
January 2012 23 July 2012 at the Wayback Machine22.20%22.30%29.51%5.87%7.58%13.45%3.94%1.21%5.15%3.21%13.40%
July 2011[dead link]16.81%24.98%36.78%5.44%5.31%10.75%3.32%0.90%4.22%1.71%9.80%
January 2011 28 February 2011 at the Wayback Machine11.75%28.71%41.56%5.53%3.73%9.26%3.55%0.70%4.25%0.90%6.90%
Usage share data from Wikimedia visitor log analysis report
PeriodInternet ExplorerFirefoxChromeSafariOperaOther MozillaMobile
December 2010 16 January 2011 at the Wayback Machine42.12%28.82%11.18%5.70%3.67%0.52%6.4%
July 2010 11 August 2011 at the Wayback Machine47.74%30.43%7.52%5.18%2.89%0.53%4.5%
January 2010 11 March 2011 at the Wayback Machine51.01%30.85%4.81%5.13%3.18%0.56%3.1%
July 2009 11 August 2011 at the Wayback Machine54.55%31.52%2.77%4.51%2.38%0.70%2.4%
April 2009 10 August 2011 at the Wayback Machine57.37%30.71%1.93%3.86%2.57%0.68%1.9%

Clicky (September 2009 to August 2013)

Global usage share data from
PeriodInternet ExplorerChromeFirefoxSafariOperaOther Mozilla
August 201328.76%39.48%20.86%9.55%1.04%0.31%
July 201328.64%39.44%21.27%9.19%1.14%0.31%
June 201329.08%38.92%21.22%9.28%1.17%0.32%
May 201329.14%38.39%21.19%9.86%1.13%0.29%
April 201330.57%37.12%21.36%9.48%1.22%0.27%
March 201331.92%35.83%21.29%9.52%1.21%0.24%
February 201333.10%34.57%21.40%9.51%1.21%0.20%
January 201335.67%32.79%20.79%9.41%1.16%0.19%
July 201235.77%29.87%23.61%9.18%1.43%0.13%
January 201238.59%25.75%24.74%9.55%1.28%0.09%
July 201142.06%20.25%27.35%9.07%1.20%0.07%
January 201146.00%15.25%28.74%8.62%1.27%0.12%
July 201049.26%10.53%30.88%7.89%1.26%0.18%
January 201050.73%6.85%32.89%7.79%1.51%0.23%
September 200954.58%4.25%31.96%7.44%1.34%0.43%

StatOwl.com (September 2008 to November 2012)

US usage share data from 16 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine
PeriodInternet ExplorerFirefox, Other MozillaChromeSafariOperaGeckoNetscape Navigator
13 January 2015 at the Wayback Machine43.38%19.42%24.91%9.27%0.75%0.84%
13 January 2015 at the Wayback Machine44.40%19.62%24.09%9.42%0.68%0.55%
13 January 2015 at the Wayback Machine45.03%19.26%23.31%9.84%0.65%0.78%
13 January 2015 at the Wayback Machine45.87%19.49%22.53%10.14%0.59%0.43%
2 April 2016 at the Wayback Machine46.95%19.03%22.31%9.96%0.52%0.36%
4 April 2016 at the Wayback Machine46.69%19.42%21.76%9.80%0.55%0.30%
13 January 2015 at the Wayback Machine46.47%20.47%20.88%10.04%0.55%0.30%
6 April 2016 at the Wayback Machine48.28%19.73%19.39%10.51%0.44%0.27%
3 April 2016 at the Wayback Machine49.18%19.46%18.10%11.14%0.38%0.29%
4 April 2016 at the Wayback Machine50.98%19.00%17.05%11.16%0.33%0.22%
4 April 2016 at the Wayback Machine51.81%18.98%16.77%10.93%0.38%0.15%
13 January 2015 at the Wayback Machine51.42%19.73%16.78%10.69%0.39%0.16%
5 April 2016 at the Wayback Machine51.17%20.15%16.13%11.29%0.38%0.16%
3 April 2016 at the Wayback Machine52.59%20.06%15.01%11.13%0.36%0.17%
3 April 2016 at the Wayback Machine53.79%20.18%13.79%10.81%0.37%0.21%
5 April 2016 at the Wayback Machine53.81%20.61%13.64%10.75%0.39%0.15%
3 April 2016 at the Wayback Machine55.26%20.29%12.58%10.68%0.37%0.13%
5 April 2016 at the Wayback Machine56.23%20.85%12.04%9.77%0.46%
4 April 2016 at the Wayback Machine57.48%20.43%11.06%9.88%0.49%
2 April 2016 at the Wayback Machine57.08%21.40%10.85%9.47%0.53%
2 April 2016 at the Wayback Machine60.27%19.57%9.60%9.62%0.42%
4 April 2016 at the Wayback Machine60.92%19.21%9.13%9.59%0.40%0.42%
4 April 2016 at the Wayback Machine61.28%19.57%8.80%9.40%0.39%0.31%
13 January 2015 at the Wayback Machine60.98%20.14%8.61%9.33%0.40%0.24%
13 January 2015 at the Wayback Machine62.13%19.69%7.46%9.42%0.37%0.18%
11 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine62.54%19.76%7.17%9.03%0.36%0.15%
13 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine62.68%20.51%6.99%8.83%0.36%0.15%
13 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine62.66%20.94%6.83%8.83%0.35%0.14%
13 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine61.73%21.66%6.95%8.94%0.36%0.11%
13 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine63.37%21.26%6.24%8.52%0.33%
12 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine64.17%21.12%5.59%8.31%0.37%
13 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine64.55%21.35%5.23%8.12%0.40%
13 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine66.34%19.90%4.39%8.59%0.31%
12 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine66.99%19.48%3.98%9.00%0.24%0.06%
13 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine66.33%20.31%3.87%8.94%0.26%0.06%
13 January 2015 at the Wayback Machine66.12%20.82%3.51%8.73%0.30%0.07%
13 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine67.74%20.15%2.88%8.56%0.28%0.10%
13 January 2015 at the Wayback Machine68.38%20.32%2.56%8.09%0.27%0.14%
11 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine67.25%21.12%2.41%8.46%0.28%0.21%
12 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine68.37%21.32%2.21%7.29%0.28%0.23%
11 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine69.29%21.06%2.05%6.77%0.30%0.24%
12 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine71.44%19.48%1.93%6.30%0.33%0.22%
13 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine71.35%20.26%1.64%5.95%0.31%0.21%
13 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine71.38%20.46%1.43%5.80%0.31%0.19%
13 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine72.03%20.00%1.19%5.91%0.30%0.10%
13 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine74.04%18.64%0.97%5.57%0.27%0.10%
12 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine73.05%19.39%0.96%5.72%0.29%0.12%
13 January 2015 at the Wayback Machine70.89%20.87%0.95%6.32%0.33%0.13%
13 January 2015 at the Wayback Machine72.07%19.78%0.68%6.57%0.29%0.13%
13 January 2015 at the Wayback Machine73.45%18.88%0.57%6.22%0.26%0.16%
13 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine74.53%18.14%0.52%5.98%0.22%0.17%

92% of sites monitored by StatOwl serve predominantly United States market.

AT Internet Institute (Europe, July 2007 to June 2010)

AT Internet Institute was formerly known as XiTi.

Method: Only counts visits to local sites in 23 European countries and then averages the percentages for those 23 European countries independent of population size.

Europe usage share data from AT Internet Institute
DateInternet ExplorerNetscapeFirefoxOperaSafariChromeSource
June 201053.8%30.6%2.4%6.8%5.7%
March 201057.1%29.6%2.2%5.2%5.3%
September 200962.0%28.4%2.2%4.3%2.8%
April 200963.6%0.6%28.4%2.2%3.4%1.7%
March 200964.6%0.6%27.8%2.2%3.3%1.4%
February 200965.6%0.5%27.4%2.1%3.0%1.3%
January 200958.1%0.6%32.5%4.1%3.0%1.5%
December 200858.5%0.6%32.3%4.5%2.7%1.3%
November 200859.5%0.6%31.1%5.1%2.5%1.1%
October 200859.2%0.6%31.1%5.4%2.4%1.1%
September 200860.2%0.4%31.2%4.8%2.4%1.0%
August 200859.4%0.3%33.0%4.5%2.6%
July 200860.4%0.3%32.2%4.5%2.4%
June 200860.5%0.3%31.4%5.1%2.5%
May 200861.7%0.4%30.7%4.7%2.4%
April 200864.5%0.5%28.9%3.6%2.4%
March 200865.0%0.5%28.8%3.3%2.3%
February 200865.6%0.5%28.5%3.2%2.2%
January 200866.1%0.5%28.0%3.2%2.1%
December 200766.1%0.5%28.0%3.3%2.0%
November 200766.9%0.5%27.3%3.2%1.9%
October 200767.5%0.4%27.0%3.1%1.8%
September 200766.6%0.3%27.7%3.4%1.8%
2–8 July 200766.5%0.3%27.8%3.5%1.7%

TheCounter.com (2000 to 2009)

TheCounter.com, a defunct web counter service, identified sixteen versions of six browsers (Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari, Opera, Netscape, and Konqueror). Other browsers are categorised as either "Netscape compatible" (including Google Chrome, which may also be categorized as "Safari" because of its "Webkit" subtag) or "unknown". Internet Explorer 8 is identified as Internet Explorer 7. Monthly data includes all hits from 2008-02-01 until the end of the month concerned. More than the exact browser type, this data identifies the underlying rendering engine used by various browsers, and the table below aggregates them in the same column.

Global usage share data from
PeriodInternet ExplorerNetscape, Other Mozilla, FirefoxSafariOperaNetscape NavigatorSources
2009 Q466.42%21.13%10.05%1.00%0.05%, ,
2009 Q369.07%20.59%8.10%0.89%0.06%, ,
2009 Q270.31%20.12%6.44%0.94%0.06%, ,
2009 Q171.25%20.01%5.47%0.92%0.08%, ,
2008 Q474.24%18.66%4.52%0.89%0.07%, ,
2008 Q376.33%17.97%3.76%0.84%0.07%, ,
2008 Q278.30%16.36%3.41%0.81%0.06%, ,
2008 Q178.80%15.87%3.32%0.79%0.06%, ,
2007 Q481.14%13.81%3.21%0.67%0.06%, ,
2007 Q381.63%13.49%3.00%0.66%0.06%, ,
2007 Q282.97%12.41%2.87%0.64%0.06%, ,
2007 Q183.69%11.57%2.92%0.57%0.06%, ,
2006 Q484.11%11.13%2.80%0.60%0.05%, 9 December 2006 at the Wayback Machine
2006 Q384.48%10.56%2.27%0.73%0.06%1 November 2011 at the Wayback Machine
2006 Q286.32%9.03%1.89%0.70%0.05%1 November 2011 at the Wayback Machine
2006 Q190.01%6.77%1.40%0.58%0.05%1 November 2011 at the Wayback Machine
2005 Q487.25%8.60%1.83%0.71%0.07%1 November 2011 at the Wayback Machine
2005 Q387.58%8.42%1.60%0.67%0.07%1 November 2011 at the Wayback Machine
2005 Q290.90%6.02%0.99%0.51%0.09%13 August 2008 at the Wayback Machine
2005 Q190.77%5.73%1.00%0.54%0.11%1 November 2011 at the Wayback Machine
2004 Q490.98%5.10%0.77%0.68%0.18%1 November 2011 at the Wayback Machine
2004 Q392.70%3.57%0.73%0.65%0.20%1 November 2011 at the Wayback Machine
2004 Q295.04%2.37%0.67%0.51%0.32%1 November 2011 at the Wayback Machine
2004 Q194.28%2.70%0.52%0.36%6 October 2011 at the Wayback Machine
2003 Q4, ,
2003 Q3, ,
2003 Q294.43%2.22%0.66%1.45%, ,
2003 Q194.18%2.15%0.65%1.77%, ,
2002 Q493.94%1.67%0.83%2.31%, ,
2002 Q393.32%1.36%0.94%3.04%, ,
2002 Q292.47%1.13%0.82%4.13%, ,
2002 Q192.40%0.93%0.52%4.67%, ,
2001 Q490.83%0.71%0.36%5.23%, ,
2001 Q388.43%0.26%0.31%6.49%, ,
2001 Q287.99%0.27%0.28%7.46%, ,
2001 Q186.80%0.30%0.22%9.84%, ,
2000 Q483.95%0.14%0.14%12.61%, ,
2000 Q382.76%0.04%0.14%14.35%, ,
2000 Q280.30%0.02%0.12%17.54%, ,
2000 Q179.09%0.00%0.13%19.25%, ,
PeriodInternet ExplorerNetscape, Other Mozilla, FirefoxSafariOperaNetscape NavigatorSources

OneStat.com (April 2002 to March 2009)

Global usage share data from 2 May 2021 at the Wayback Machine (press releases)
PeriodInternet ExplorerOther Mozilla, FirefoxSafariChromeOperaNetscapeNetscape Navigator
25 February 2021 at the Wayback Machine79.79%15.59%2.65%0.86%0.54%0.31%
26 February 2021 at the Wayback Machine81.36%14.67%2.42%0.54%0.55%0.32%
24 February 2021 at the Wayback Machine83.27%13.76%2.18%0.55%0.14%
26 February 2021 at the Wayback Machine84.66%12.72%1.79%0.61%0.11%
27 February 2021 at the Wayback Machine85.81%11.69%1.64%0.58%0.13%
25 February 2021 at the Wayback Machine85.24%12.15%1.61%0.69%0.11%
4 March 2021 at the Wayback Machine85.85%11.49%1.61%0.69%0.12%
27 April 2021 at the Wayback Machine83.05%12.93%1.84%1.00%0.16%
25 February 2021 at the Wayback Machine85.17%11.79%2.02%0.79%0.15%
25 February 2021 at the Wayback Machine85.82%11.23%1.88%0.77%0.16%
14 April 2021 at the Wayback Machine85.45%11.51%1.75%0.77%0.26%
26 January 2021 at the Wayback Machine86.63%8.69%1.26%1.03%1.08%
24 February 2021 at the Wayback Machine87.28%8.45%1.21%1.09%1.11%
25 February 2021 at the Wayback Machine88.90%7.35%0.91%1.33%
27 February 2021 at the Wayback Machine93.9%2.1%0.71%1.02%
12 February 2021 at the Wayback Machine94.8%1.8%0.48%0.8%
11 February 2021 at the Wayback Machine95.4%1.6%0.25%0.6%1.9%0.6%
25 February 2021 at the Wayback Machine95.2%1.2%0.11%0.7%1.9%1.0%
25 February 2021 at the Wayback Machine95.0%1.1%0.8%1.9%1.1%
25 February 2021 at the Wayback Machine94.9%0.8%0.9%1.8%1.2%
11 April 2021 at the Wayback Machine95.3%0.4%0.7%1.5%1.9%
24 February 2021 at the Wayback Machine96.6%0.5%0.7%2.1%
US usage share data from 2 May 2021 at the Wayback Machine (press releases)
PeriodInternet ExplorerOther Mozilla, FirefoxSafariChromeOperaNetscape
25 February 2021 at the Wayback Machine72.69%20.40%4.53%1.05%0.49%0.38%
26 February 2021 at the Wayback Machine75.54%18.74%3.95%0.62%0.39%0.50%
26 February 2021 at the Wayback Machine75.69%19.65%3.77%0.61%0.17%
26 February 2021 at the Wayback Machine78.13%16.11%3.68%0.73%0.18%
Canadian usage share data from 2 May 2021 at the Wayback Machine (press releases)
PeriodInternet ExplorerOther Mozilla, FirefoxSafariChromeOperaNetscape
25 February 2021 at the Wayback Machine65.55%23.09%7.36%1.32%0.75%0.56%
26 February 2021 at the Wayback Machine69.67%20.38%7.56%0.92%0.76%0.56%
26 February 2021 at the Wayback Machine75.76%16.47%5.72%0.69%0.13%
26 February 2021 at the Wayback Machine79.00%14.13%4.70%0.71%0.14%
UK usage share data from 2 May 2021 at the Wayback Machine (press releases)
PeriodInternet ExplorerOther Mozilla, FirefoxSafariChromeOperaNetscape
25 February 2021 at the Wayback Machine80.91%15.16%1.94%0.85%0.60%0.36%
26 February 2021 at the Wayback Machine 26 February 2021 at the Wayback Machine83.77%11.45%1.76%0.43%0.60%0.34%
26 February 2021 at the Wayback Machine86.00%11.22%1.61%0.53%0.10%
26 February 2021 at the Wayback Machine86.72%10.86%1.78%0.49%0.10%
Australian usage share data from 2 May 2021 at the Wayback Machine (press releases)
PeriodInternet ExplorerOther Mozilla, FirefoxSafariChromeOperaNetscape
26 February 2021 at the Wayback Machine66.42%26.32%1.86%4.05%0.24%
26 February 2021 at the Wayback Machine 26 February 2021 at the Wayback Machine65.71%26.68%1.77%4.28%0.24%
French usage share data from 2 May 2021 at the Wayback Machine 2 May 2021 at the Wayback Machine (press releases)
PeriodInternet ExplorerOther Mozilla, FirefoxSafariChromeOperaNetscape
25 February 2021 at the Wayback Machine 25 February 2021 at the Wayback Machine71.57%23.48%2.90%0.86%0.54%0.46%
26 February 2021 at the Wayback Machine71.50%23.45%3.23%0.59%0.56%0.51%

ADTECH (Europe, 2004 to 2009)

Europe usage share data from 18 July 2005 at the Wayback Machine 's press releases; this is an ad serving company
PeriodInternet ExplorerFirefoxSafariChromeOperaOther MozillaNetscape
25 November 2010 at the Wayback Machine63.6%26.7%3.6%2.8%1.7%0.7%
17 August 2009 at the Wayback Machine67.7%25.3%2.6%1.0%1.4%1.1%
5 March 2009 at the Wayback Machine76.2%18.1%1.7%1.0%2.6%
3 March 2009 at the Wayback Machine76.0%18.0%1.6%1.0%2.9%
21 November 2018 at the Wayback Machine77.5%15.5%1.6%0.9%3.9%
15 December 2018 at the Wayback Machine77.34%14.34%1.63%0.85%5.11%
21 November 2018 at the Wayback Machine83.36%12.38%1.67%0.77%0.82%0.38%
21 November 2018 at the Wayback Machine83.31%12.41%1.40%0.90%1.06%0.61%
21 November 2018 at the Wayback Machine85.10%10.11%1.34%1.21%1.05%0.60%
15 December 2018 at the Wayback Machine86.73%8.96%1.12%1.14%0.71%
15 December 2018 at the Wayback Machine87.57%7.85%1.05%1.26%0.76%
15 December 2018 at the Wayback Machine87.13%7.43%1.70%1.33%0.85%
21 November 2018 at the Wayback Machine89.47%5.51%1.01%2.50%0.92%
21 November 2018 at the Wayback Machine92.63%2.91%1.00%2.10%0.82%
21 November 2018 at the Wayback Machine93.08%2.15%0.89%2.18%0.95%
21 November 2018 at the Wayback Machine93.08%1.64%0.99%2.62%0.97%
6 August 2004 at the Wayback Machine94.72%0.73%2.50%1.49%

WebSideStory (US, February 1999 to June 2006)

US usage share data from:
DateInternet ExplorerNetscape, Other MozillaFirefoxSource
June 200686.64%9.95%
5 January 200687.63%8.88%
4 November 200588.16%1.61%8.13%
23 September 200588.46%1.69%7.86%
29 April 200588.86%2.23%6.75%
18 February 200589.85%2.47%5.69%
14 January 200590.28%2.64%4.95%
3 December 200491.80%2.83%4.06%
5 November 200492.89%2.95%3.03%
8 October 200493.21%3.05%2.66%
4 June 200495.48%3.53%
26 August 200295.97%3.39%
25 October 200189.03%10.47%
25 April 200186.61%13.10%
21 February 200187.71%12.01%
18 June 200086.08%13.90%
2 August 199975.31%24.68%
6 April 199968.75%29.46%
1 March 199966.90%31.21%
8 February 199964.60%33.43%

Older reports (pre-2000)

Market share for several browsers between 1995 and 2010, illustrating the First Browser War (NN vs IE). Firefox was originally named "Phoenix", a name which implied that it would rise like a Phoenix after Netscape was killed off by Microsoft.

GVU WWW user survey (January 1994 to October 1998)

Usage share data from:
DateMosaicNetscape NavigatorInternet ExplorerSource
October 199864%32.2%
April 199870%22.7%
October 199759.67%15.13%
April 199781.13%12.13%
October 199680.45%12.18%
April 199689.36%3.76%
April 19959%54%
October 199468%18%
January 199497%

EWS Web Server at UIUC (1996 Q2 to 1998)

Usage share data from: 8 March 2012 at the Wayback Machine
DateMosaicInternet ExplorerNetscape NavigatorSource
1998 Q450.43%46.87%, ,
1998 Q347.90%48.97%, ,
1998 Q243.17%53.57%, ,
1998 Q139.67%57.63%, ,
1997 Q435.53%62.23%, ,
1997 Q332.40%64.93%, ,
1997 Q20.37%27.67%69.77%, ,
1997 Q10.60%22.87%74.33%, ,
1996 Q41.20%19.07%77.13%, ,
1996 Q32.47%13.97%80.37%, ,
1996 Q26.93%9.60%82.77%, ,

ZD Market Intelligence (US, January 1997 to January 1998)

Usage share data from: ZD Market Intelligence
DateInternet ExplorerNetscape NavigatorSource
January 199839%54%
January 199721%63%

Zona Research (US, Jan 1997 to Jan 1998)

Usage share data from: Zona Research
DateInternet ExplorerNetscape NavigatorSource
July 199845%54%
September 199736%62%
January 199728%70%

AdKnowledge (January 1998 to June 1998)

Usage share data from: AdKnowledge
DateInternet ExplorerNetscape NavigatorSource
June 199846%52%
March 199842%57%
January 199836%61%

Dataquest (1995 to 1997)

Usage share data from: Dataquest
DateInternet ExplorerNetscape NavigatorSource
199739.4%57.6%
199620%73%
19952.9%80.1%

International Data Corporation (US, 1996 to 1997)

Usage share data from: International Data Corporation
DateInternet ExplorerNetscape NavigatorSource
199723%51%
199616%55%

See also

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