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Re: August 2009 browser stats: IE continues its slow decline

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____/ bbgruff on Tuesday 29 Sep 2009 22:40 : \____

> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
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>> ____/ nessuno on Tuesday 29 Sep 2009 16:34 : \____
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>>> <Quote>
>>> Internet Explorer dropped a significant 0.71 percentage points (from
>>> 67.68 percent to 66.97 percent) and Firefox moved up a sizeable 0.51
>>> percentage points (from 22.47 percent to 22.98 percent). Safari
>>> remained steady at 4.07 percent while Chrome once again moved further
>>> away from Opera: it gained a worthy 0.25 percentage points (from 2.59
>>> percent to 2.84 percent).
>>> </Quote>
>>> 
>>>
> http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2009/09/august-2009-browser-stats-ie-continues-its-slow-decline.ars
>>> 
>>> The numbers depend on who is measuring them.  Ars Technica themselves
>>> show Firefox leading all contenders, with 45% share.
>> 
>> So what are the figures like in Europe? The sample/population this is
>> based on is proprietary and biased.
>> 
>> Mozilla claims about 1 in 4 Internet users are on Firefox.
> 
> Then according to statcounter, Mozilla are wrong.
> 
> For this month (the past 28 days) they show 39.25%
> (I must stress, usual qualifications when talking about *any* web
> statistics)

Web statistics are Web statistics... accumulated from........ ??? .... well, some
IP addresses, somewhere you choose.

But Web statistics are not desktop statistics, either.

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