Viewing historical browser market share statistics the old fashioned way is a pretty dull task. There’s nothing less inspiring than sitting staring at a table of data that visually tells you nothing. On the flip side we all like a good pie chart right? All those colourful segments that kind of look like a Terry’s Chocolate Orange, indicating immediately the impact of the resulting data in a visual form.
Historical browser statistics
Current browser share statistics is something I reference from time to time and I use W3schools.com as a primary source for this data. A tool I recently discovered from Axis shows the historical browser statistics from W3schools.com in a custom visualisation. It tracks back to January 2002 and includes historic deprecated browsers such as IE4.
Conclusion
A cool online tool for viewing historical browser market share statistics. Witness the demice of Internet Explorers dominant control of the market with this intelligent custom visualisation. Let us know what you think of the tool and the market share as a whole.
January 15th, 2010 at 2:04 pm
Very interesting representation, does anybody else feel freaked out that the Firefox takeover and colours used actually makes this chart resemble the Firefox logo?!
January 15th, 2010 at 2:22 pm
haha how on earth did you spot that, it actually does doesn’t it. Maybe Axis did this on purpose? They could of positioned Firefox at another angle if they wanted. Maybe it’s just a coincidence?
January 16th, 2010 at 12:44 pm
No coincidence. Mozilla are the secret overseers of the internet
Shame to see that there are still people using the older ie browsers though.
January 16th, 2010 at 6:37 pm
I was surprised to see Opera on the increase. I guess it must be used in more mobile devices than I realised.
February 19th, 2010 at 9:45 pm
You should do the same thing for operating systems, watch the fall of windows
June 19th, 2010 at 9:23 am
For what it’s worth, the w3c disclaims that their audience is tech savvy and forward-thinking, and reminds us that user preference will vary from site to site. Other sites report Internet Explorer prevalence up to 60%.
September 30th, 2010 at 5:03 am
True.
It varies from site to site. As to personal reference, I prefer Firefox and Chrome. Not to mention that there are people who don’t really know or understand anything about web browsers, they just used it to connect to the web and nothing more, unaware of the other and better options out there. *sigh*
November 19th, 2010 at 2:27 pm
Really interesting representation, you should do another one for 2010. The good thing is the lawsuit which Microsoft lost against EU so now they have to let the end-user choose which browser he/she likes. The bad thing is to many people choose Internet Explorer because thats the only thing they know.