Craig, are there any figures for Firefox use on mobiles? I use it because it’s a much better browser than the default Android.
I don’t know of any statistics collators who publish the sites they record - and they probably shouldn’t because it’d make it too easy to sway results.
Again, site scraping could be part of the increase but why is it only occurring in the US? It doesn’t seem likely to me.
Firefox usage on Android is very low. Download the StatCounter CSV files to take a look.
Hmm. I’m not convinced. Neither NMS or SC publish which sites they use so how has he arrived at that assumption? I’d also be concerned that the top 40,000 sites are very US/Europe oriented - a random distribution would be more preferable.
Besides, we’re only calculating a proportion of browser usage. The figures above are effectively probabilities. According to StatCounter, there’s a 50% chance that a single hit on an average site originates from Chrome. Even going by your figures, three billion hits is still a good sample.
Well, I have two teories.
- I’ve seen a surge in vulnerability scans on every kind of websites, not only wordpress. While I also don’t expect this to be targeted against some country in particular, I have also no reason to be sure the distribution would be equal in the world and no form of targeting exists;
- Other sources account IE8 at 10%, 15%, 18% of the market share. This only means that we can not trust just one statistics website as they all heavily depend on their sources. StatCounter could have added more sources affecting the results or even have adjusted them with the purpose to reflect more accurate numbers.
I support many small businesses in the US and have noticed that recently, several large insurance web sites have made changes to upgrade their browser support. I’ve had to install Chrome (finally) just to get my users on the insurance web sites. I think that IE users are switching their browsers to compatibility mode in a futile attempt to connect to these insurance web sites. The issues I’ve seen are tricky, IE will log you in but not give you all the proper functionality for search and auto fill features within the insurance sites. Also, remember that this is the last month to sign up for government health insurance in the US. Maybe a large group of people dusted off the computer to try and sign up? I do believe that it is correlated to the insurance industry. Just a guess.
That’s an interesting thought. But why would people enable/use an older browser to use a site which now supports newer browsers? It’s certainly possible many misunderstood what compatibility mode does but I suspect few people use it in the numbers which would be required.
Also, compatibility mode is normally set on a site-by-site basis. IE doesn’t remain in that mode for all sites.
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