Some real browser statistics
Most companies and large sites are pretty protective of their browser share statistics, and I’ve always wondered why. I suspect that it comes down to economics and wanting to maintain a certain amount of deniability depending on who they are talking to.
I wanted to publish some stats from one of the Particle sites both to make a point and to really call our something pretty amazing.
Our users on Robo.to are predominately 13-24 years old, we have more international users than users in the US and we see about 40% new users month over month. What we are seeing happen right now with the browser market share is nothing short of incredible.
In the last 6 months we have seen Chrome overtake Firefox, and IE share drop to a single digit number. What’s more, the trend is not only clear, it’s kind of overwhelming.
I am famously a supporter of Chrome and WebKit-based browsers in general as well as of HTML5 in general, so for me personally this is really great news. I haven’t seen anything like this happen since the Internet Explorer 4 days, and we all know what happened to Netscape.
I’m very interested to see what happens around the releases of Firefox 4 and IE 9, but I think it’s clear that Mozilla has some cause for alarm right now!
