Comments on: Internet Explorer’s Market Share Keeps Falling

By: jbelkin

jbelkin — Sat, 22 Jan 2005 05:26:40 +0000

Of course, every website depending on topic is going to vary greatly. Also, on some sites, I have to tell it I’m running WinIE even though I’m running SAfari. Just like how many people do not know how to redirect their IE NOT to load MSN as it’s first and on every browser page open?

By: John

John — Fri, 21 Jan 2005 22:47:34 +0000

those stats numbers are misleading. I have a very busy website, with non-platform specific contents and standards compliant. The share of IE has never been more than 81%. Currently, IE’s share on my site is about 69%.

Those stats companies keep track of too many visitors to sites that enforces the usage of IE, like sites that use Active X controls. So of course, those sites will skew the stats towards IE, and if they’re big, they’ll skew them sharply.

I don’t believe for a second that IE’s real market share (where users have the choice) has ever been more than 85%.

By: memigo

memigo — Fri, 21 Jan 2005 17:09:56 +0000

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