: What is the best browser market share data source? Browser market share is important to a webmaster, or at least it will be until IE6, 7 and 8 disappear (my guess is the year 2532, more

@Dunderdale272

A lot of great resources listed in the answers so far, great question.

To me, the only reliable source of data you should look at for browser usage, and thus, what you need make sure you're supporting well, is your own site. Keep an eye on those breakdowns and you'll have a sense of your actual audience. If you get spikes in traffic because of news or organic growth, keep an eye on how those numbers change, as that may indicate that you need to change your own emphasis. Now, that's all presuming you have a track record of maybe 6 months you can draw on. If you don't, using the resources suggested is perfectly fine.

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@Radia820

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_web_browsers
This page list the best and most reliable source of information on the market share of browser. Pretty much everything that people will answer is listed there.

Here's the list :


W3Counter : www.w3counter.com/globalstats.php
Net Applications : marketshare.hitslink.com/browser-market-share.aspx?qprid=0
StatCounter : gs.statcounter.com/
StatOwl : www.statowl.com/ Clicky : www.getclicky.com/marketshare/global/web-browsers/

And to answer the question, which one is the best ? In term of global statistic, I would say the pie chart they have on Wikipedia would be the most reliable since it's an average of the 5 sources of information.

If you want to compare them, one by one, I would say Stat Counter seems to be the most accurate source of information. His numbers are the one that are the closest to the mean and the median or all the 5 sources of information.1

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@Mendez628

I think this site is about the best you will get gs.statcounter.com/.

It is updated at least once a week
It allows you to choose country or region
It lets you look at mobile or desktop and browser version
And it shows you the data over time so you can see trends and changes in usage


Getting data tied directly to usage by age group and area of interest is going to be very tough. Especially age as how would they know how old the user on the computer is?

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