Safari Gains Ground in Browser Wars
Apple’s (AAPL) Safari made the biggest gains in September among mainstream Web browsers, according to new research released today by Net Applications Inc.
Although Microsoft’s (MSFT) Internet Explorer still dominates the category, Safari’s market share rose nearly 7.7% for the month and now represents better than 5% of the traffic on the Internet. Firefox’s share rose slightly (2.15%) and now carries nearly 15% of the traffic. Explorer continued its slow fall, drifting down more than 1% for the month.
Net Applications samples browser data from visitors to a network of
some 40,000 websites around the world, a method that tends to
skew results toward computers that are heavily used and away from those
that are gathering dust.
The most impressive growth in the latest numbers was the nearly 17% jump in “other,” a category that includes such browsers as Opera, Netscape, Opera Mini, Mozilla, Danger Web Browser, Konqueror and PlayStation Portable Internet Browser.
The following table, derived from Net Applications’ research, summarizes their results. For more detail, you can go to their website here. For a report on their operating system numbers, see Mac Installed Base Hits 6.6% in September.
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