By dcawrey
via thechromesource.com
Published: Feb 08 2010 / 04:49
The web developer-focused w3schools releases browser statistics every month. Recently, they published their figures for January. Fueled by the movement of Chrome 4 into a stable version along with the increased media coverage of Chrome OS and Google’s competition with the other tech titans, Chrome has moved past the ten percent share mark, registering a 10.8% share which is up a solid point from December, at 9.8%.
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MCII replied ago:
"Statistics" for 1(!) site.
uboness replied ago:
Yes, statistics for one site, but a *key* site which serves as a reference for all web developers...
jfernandez replied ago:
Referencing incorrect data many times does not make the data any more accurate. As taken directly from the W3 School's browser data page: "W3Schools is a website for people with an interest for web technologies. These people are more interested in using alternative browsers than the average user." The only useful data you will get from W3 Schools browser stats is what browsers designers and developers are using. Even the blog author recognizes that.
Check out this Wikipedia page for a good analysis of market share: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_web_browsers
I tend to favor Net Applications, as they have a *huge* sample size.
dcawrey replied ago:
I tried to include more than one stat. Although I think that w3schools going past ten percent signals an early adoption period that has perhaps come and gone...
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