June 2006 Browser Stats

2006 Browser Stats

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Browser stats for 2006 through June 15th.

It has been interesting to see the changes that have happened in the past 6 months in relation to web browser usage. Here are the numbers for 2006 so far this year:


Site 1 Site 2 Site 3 Site 4 Site 5 Site 6 Averages
MSIE 7
0.96% 0.16% 1.08% 0.15% 0.79% 0.32% 0.53%
MSIE 6.+ 57.68% 85.06% 56.22% 90.53% 91.14% 84.39% 77.54%
MSIE 5.5 + 0.90% 2.14% 0.28% 1.31% 0.98% 0.73% 1.06%
MSIE 5.0+ 2.00% 1.02% 0.71% 1.09% 1.34% 1.31% 1.17%
Firefox 34.79% 9.06% 34.55% 4.04% 4.37% 10.14% 15.97%
Safari 2.16% 1.85% 6.84% 2.27% 0.67% 2.32% 3.00%
Netscape 1.51% 0.71% 0.32% 0.62% 0.70% 0.79% 0.72%

As you can see, when compared to last year's numbers, Firefox is still making great strides into the browser market, especially still in the tech sector. IE 6 is still losing ground and will probably lose more ground as IE 7 rolls out.

IE 6 fell 5% from 82.5% last year to 77 .5% so far this year. Firefox has grown 5.5% from 10.5% to almost 16% so far this year. Overall, we still see Firefox growing in use and should prove to be a great contender. We'll also watch emerging browsers like Flock to see if they can piggyback off of Firefox's success.