2006 Website Browser Stats Review

2006 Website Browser Stats

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2006 Website Browser Statistics - Year End Results 

Well another year is gone and here is the browser war roundup for the year of 2006. This year we saw the much anticipated IE 7 browser release and although they have taken some nice strides forward , and having it rollout in the Microsoft Update , there still is a lack of early adopters (although many of the IE 7 percentages below come from December of this year after the rollout).

As with last year's stats , Firefox continues to gain footing in the techy sector (as seen below from Site 1 & 6). IE's total market share has dropped from 85.58 to 72.54% and Firefox has moved from 10.55 to 22.67% over last year.

  Site 1 Site 2 Site 3 Site 4 Site 5 Site 6 Averages
MSIE 7.+ 5.97% 6.09% 7.35% 3.45% 3.05% 5.98% 5.46%
MSIE 6.+ 56.56% 77.21% 76.62% 88.48% 78.23% 46.07% 65.11%
MSIE 5.5 + 0.91% 1.12% 0.79% 0.71% 0.33% 0.23% 0.69%
MSIE 5.0+ 2.78% 0.70% 0.22% 1.18% 0.13% 0.91% 1.28%
Firefox 29.88% 11.11% 8.55% 5.00% 14.26% 38.58% 22.67%
Safari 2.23% 3.07% 5.53% 0.63% 3.10% 6.75% 3.62%
Netscape 0.85% 0.50% 0.94% 0.94% 0.80% 0.31% 0.61%
Opera 0.81% 0.20% 0.01% 0.07% 0.10% 1.19% 0.57%

Averages are calculated based on the total aggregate page views from all sites to eliminate biases from sites with fewer page views.