firefox marketshare continues to rise
XiTi Monitor's latest survey results points to December's strong growth across the globe, especially in South America and Oceania.
In the US, XiTi reports a December gain of nearly one percentage point to 21% of the market. In Europe, December growth was also strong, putting Firefox at 28%. Australia and New Zealand were the big Firefox winners in December gaining 1.4 percentage points and becoming the first region to break the 30% mark with a Firefox market of 31.1%.
Consistent with their previous study, Firefox migration to the latest version is still dramatically outpacing IE migration to the latest version. According to XiTi, 93% of Firefox users are using Firefox 2 while only 47% of IE users are on 7. (BTW, my calculations suggest something closer to 97% of Firefox users on Firefox 2)
Until they publish in English, here's a Google translation.
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On my own site, IE7 has finally passed the half-way point, with roughly 54% of IE users running IE7 in January so far. Meanwhile, Firefox is within a single percentage point of IE6!
My guess is that a lot of people got new computers for Christmas -- new computers that would probably run Vista, and therefore come with IE7 -- and that others had tech-savvy family visiting for the holidays, who may have helped out with their computers by either upgrading IE or installing Firefox.
It'll be interesting to see whether January will show IE7 surpassing IE6 globally, or whether it'll take a few more months.
Posted by: Kelson | January 24, 2008 12:24 PM
That's just fantastic! I hadn't been paying attention to market lately. This exceeds my expectations! I remember in the 0.9 days thinking the optimists were naive saying Fx could get to 10%.
Posted by: Ephilei | January 27, 2008 6:54 PM
Here in Germany Firefox has more than 50% market share...
Posted by: André Tagesgeld | February 11, 2008 4:03 AM