Comments on: Browser Trends May 2013: IE8 Drops Below 10%

By: Craig Buckler

Craig Buckler — Thu, 09 May 2013 07:32:15 +0000

Really? Dale — are you real? If not, you’re not a very effective spammer — you didn’t leave a link!

I’ve not experienced poor video with Firefox? No more than any other browser, anyway. Is it any particular format?

By: jack the rapper

jack the rapper — Thu, 09 May 2013 00:01:40 +0000

Where were you that you can’t tell it is a comment from an url dropping troll :)

I switched back to FF recently having gone through IE > NN (ahhh the good old days) > Opera >FF > Chrome…and now back to FF due to extensions but FF still suffers performance issues with video media that I might defect back to Chrome if they can port (fully) a few extensions.
Browsers are like cars…when new they are shiny, exciting, fun, have something unique but then you realize you get there with the same utilitarian pains.

By: Alabi

Alabi — Fri, 03 May 2013 20:48:51 +0000

I started with IE because it was pre-shipped with my Windows OS moved to Firefox did not really spend time with it before moving to Chrome. Some I think this statistics my behaviour on the net.

By: Todd Nevins

Todd Nevins — Fri, 03 May 2013 18:27:51 +0000

We are seeing similar results on our site with Chrome in the lead but still showing IE7 at around 1%. Yea, seriously. Wish 7 and 8 were 0%. Interesting post Craig, thanks.

By: Craig Buckler

Craig Buckler — Fri, 03 May 2013 12:47:54 +0000

If that’s the case, you can’t extrapolate any poll or survey! StatCounter collate statistics from three million websites — certainly one of the highest samples. While no web statistics can ever be 100% accurate, it’s a reasonable estimate of overall usage.

That said, you should always check your own site statistics first.

By: abdussamad

abdussamad — Fri, 03 May 2013 00:35:55 +0000

So Chrome is the most popular browser! Who would have predicted that a few years ago?!

By: Ivo De Wispelaere

Ivo De Wispelaere — Thu, 02 May 2013 17:59:58 +0000

These figures are only relevant to websites with Statcounter-statistics… I’m nog sure you can extrapolate them to the whole web…

By: Craig Buckler

Craig Buckler — Thu, 02 May 2013 15:09:39 +0000

Welcome to 2013. Where have you been for the past five years?!

By: Craig Buckler

Craig Buckler — Thu, 02 May 2013 15:06:44 +0000

I understand what you’re saying but Opera has always been a power-user browser. Many of those people will be developers who probably don’t use it as much now. I think the figures speak for themselves.

By: Craig Buckler

Craig Buckler — Thu, 02 May 2013 15:04:53 +0000

How would you generate those figures? It’s not really possible unless you could survey every web user to determine what they used. Even then, what if I use two or more browsers?

By: Craig Buckler

Craig Buckler — Thu, 02 May 2013 15:02:52 +0000

Is it? I’d suggest IE is simpler to use now!

By: dale

dale — Thu, 02 May 2013 14:26:06 +0000

this is news to me, I thought everyone left IE and moved on to Firefox and as far as Chrome i didn’t think they were even in the top 10 or even 20.

By: Stevie D

Stevie D — Thu, 02 May 2013 11:32:16 +0000

Fair point, but I'd be a bit upset if a significant chunk of the handful of Opera-users were just webbists who were testing their sites in Opera – that would push the number of actual Opera-users down even lower. Although somehow I don't think that's likely – I doubt that the number of "test hits" using Presto (as opposed to webbists who use Opera because, well, because it's a darned good browser and that's what they do most of their primary site development with) is out of proportion with the number of Opera users.

By: Michael

Michael — Wed, 01 May 2013 23:48:06 +0000

Chrome is the easier to use the IE or Firefox for people who want to keep their browser use simple.