OneStat is reporting that Firefox's global usage share continues to rise, up to 8.45% this month (more than 1 percentage point gain since November.)
"It seems that global usage share of Mozilla's Firefox is still increasing and the total global usage share of Microsoft's Internet Explorer is still decreasing. It looks like that browser users of Internet Explorer 5 are switching to Mozilla Firefox instead of upgrading to Internet Explorer 6.0" said Niels Brinkman, co-founder of OneStat.com.
These numbers seem to look pretty similar to what WebSideStory is reporting, maybe a bit higher as OneStat is global and WSS is U.S. numbers.
Posted by asa at February 27, 2005 12:29 PM
Actually, they seem a little confused (as usual). They first claim Mozilla browsers have 8.45% (in the text), while the following table says this is true for Firefox alone. I believe it must be Moz browsers combined.
Posted by: David Naylor on February 27, 2005 04:34 PMWe need a wider range of sites that deliver browser access information, especially from sites that everybody uses, not just nerds. This might be search engines and portals, companies that sell to just about any segment of the population, governmental sites and popular news sites. I will try to find a few sites that might fit the bill. If I find something, where do I send the information?
Posted by: adaxl on February 28, 2005 04:28 AMa rather naff review of firefox by someone who seems not to understand the issues he is talking about..
http://www.internetweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=60402281
Posted by: matt on February 28, 2005 05:31 AMThat "someone who seems not to understand the issues he is talking about" is Rob Enderle, who makes a living hyping software vendor's products for cash, under the thinly-veiled guise of impartial research. Microsoft is one of his biggest customers. Enderle has been widely exposed to be an utter cretin time and time again, so I wouldn't let this bother you too much.
Posted by: rwinston on February 28, 2005 08:27 AMThis morning I sent the following to Erik Bratt at WebSideStory:
"The figures you present in your recent browser stat update are rather misleading:
"Firefox’s market share grew just 15 percent in the five weeks leading up to Feb. 18, 2005, the latest benchmark available. In the previous six weeks before that, the browser grew at 22 percent clip. These figures compare with a 34 percent increase between Nov. 5 and Dec. 3 ..."
While this is true, it is misleading, because the relative growth rate (percentage per time) can never be expected to remain constant. The absolute growth rate (percentage points per time), on the other hand, can. To sustain a constant relative growth rate, Firefox usage would need to grow exponentially - an expectation which is nothing but absurd. Although the absolute growth rate is also decreasing somewhat, the real adoption rate decrease is no where near as sharp as the figures you present try to make out.
You claim to be statistics professionals. This kind of mis-use of figures indicates you barely know what you are talking about.
David Naylor"
Then I got this reply just now:
"Hi David, thanks for the note. We were just talking about that this morning and will change to reflect percentage points per time.
Best, Erik"
Posted by: David Naylor on February 28, 2005 08:58 AM