Browser War Almost Over ....

How important is the browser, a techie will be able to tell you more I think. That is a foothold for dominance of the internet audience. The browser war has escalated over the past 5 years and it is so easy to see who is winning. The first section captures data for visitor to my site and the browser they use. Over the last 7 years, Internet Explorer still has a small lead cumulatively at 31% followed by Chrome with 25%, Firefox with 21% and Safari 15%.

What is more interesting is to capture the same data for the month of March 2014 alone in the second section.

Mozilla's (Firefox)  income mostly comes from Google- every time someone searches Google using Firefox's search box, they give Mozilla a portion of the ad revenue. That accounts for over 90% of Mozilla's revenue, with the rest being donations (the Mozilla foundation is a registered non-profit). I don't know about Opera.

As far as Chrome on the iPhone, it really wouldn't make a difference. Chrome and Safari are actually the same web browser (Webkit, made by Apple) but with different chromes (the menu bars and toolbars and stuff). That's got nothing to do with AT&T, Apple just wants to maintain control over user experience on the iPhone and that's easier to do if you're using their software.

Really the big result of the browser wars would be the future direction of the Internet. Microsoft would like everyone to be using the Silverlight and other Microsoft technologies for web development because that would mean Microsoft could dictate control of the web- you'd have to buy Microsoft's development tools to make dynamic web programs. Mozilla and Google both want open web standards, such as HTML 5, to dominate because they want everyone to have equal access to the web. Google made their own web browser so that they could focus on application speed- they want web applications to run as well as desktop applications so that they can expand their offerings and get even more people to register for their services. 


Data for
May 2007 - March 2014

Pageviews by Countries Entry Pageviews Malaysia 9164415 United States 515678 Singapore 469772 Australia 129521 Indonesia 83660 United Kingdom 76989 Hong Kong 52565 Canada 24445 Germany 18393 France 16198

Pageviews by Browsers Entry Pageviews Internet Explorer 3514082 (31%) Chrome 2863645 (25%) Firefox 2377506 (21%) Safari 1717899 (15%) Mobile Safari 318274 (2%) Apple-PubSub 217670 (1%) Opera 124593 (1%) Google Desktop 34827 (<1 div=""> Mobile 31027 (<1 div=""> CriOS 18557 (<1 div=""> Pageviews by Operating Systems Entry Pageviews Windows 8429001 (76%) iPad 716837 (6%) iPhone 629751 (5%) Macintosh 591749 (5%) Android 448473 (4%) Linux 101842 (<1 div=""> BlackBerry 56488 (<1 div=""> Other Unix 14422 (<1 div=""> iPod 13895 (<1 div=""> Nokia 6252 (<1 div="">

As you can see, Chrome has won the war decisively going forward. Now they have 40% market share followed by Safari with 25%, Firefox 14% and Internet Explorer has dropped to 12%.

Data For March 2014 alone

Pageviews by Countries Entry Pageviews Malaysia 131253 United States 10547 Singapore 6330 Australia 2169 Indonesia 2140 United Kingdom 1444 Germany 1154 France 1151 Hong Kong 642 Russia 463

Pageviews by Browsers Entry Pageviews Chrome 66227 (40%) Safari 42046 (25%) Firefox 24667 (14%) Internet Explorer 20466 (12%) Mobile Safari 7436 (4%) Opera 2323 (1%) CriOS 950 (<1 div=""> Mobile 778 (<1 div=""> chromeframe 301 (<1 div=""> Zite 289 (<1 div=""> Pageviews by Operating Systems Entry Pageviews Windows 98003 (58%) iPad 23423 (14%) Android 18501 (11%) iPhone 13458 (8%) Macintosh 9530 (5%) Linux 2625 (1%) Other Unix 266 (<1 div=""> BlackBerry 184 (<1 div=""> BB10 178 (<1 div=""> iPod 88 (<1 div="">