: What is the best browser usage statistics source? I wonder about what source of browser usage statistics is most reliable and updated. I've been using Google Analytics (with use of my analytics

@Alves908

Browser usage is going to vary a lot depending on what kind of website is collecting the statistics. Stackexchange is i highly technical site and as such you'd very likely find IE6 scoring much lower than on an overall web average. If you were collecting statistics on some winxp blog it would probably score significantly higher. just something to consider when looking at stats.

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@Bryan171

Netmarketshare offers an estimate of browser share, based on data from around 11,000 partners.

However, no browser usage source covers "most of web usage", as you put it. All sites that report browser use simply publish their own (or partners') browser usage statistics, which are unlikely to cover anything more than a very small percentage of Web users.

As such, it's best to evaluate browser support on a site-by-site basis.

Use the browser statistics of the website that you're developing for to determine whether or not you should support a particular browser, not the browser stats of other websites.

If you're building a new site or you don't have access to user browser data, support as many browsers as you have the time and expertise to develop for, and start collecting visitor data to build a better picture of your audience as soon as you can.

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@Jessie594

Wikipedia provides an updated browser statistics summary that includes the top sources and median of these sources:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_web_browsers#Summary_table
For most uses, the wikipedia median is probably your best estimate for accurate browser statistics.

Each of the main browser stats providers are not 100% reliable because they all use a relatively small set of web sites that may lead to a biased sample set of users. Depending on what criteria is important or how 'most of web usage' is defined, different stats may be more useful.


If you don't trust Wikipedia, follow the sources provided and compile your own median.

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