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Web Statistics
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(2010-06-04 - News)

IE 6 nearly dead, says StatCounter (ZDNet blog, 2010-06-01). BUT, read cautiously.... (Only one source, and you even more carefully need to consider your intended audience, visitor's demographics! As commented in replies to this blog entry:
- "StatCounter is delusional - For my customers' B2B sites, IE6 is either #1 or #2 in browser share."
- "Not So Fast:
  sources say about 800 million internet users in the US and Europe: http://www.internetworldstats.com/stats.htm
  
  So your stat, 4.7% in US and Europe equals about 38 million IE6 users.
  
  in the US alone, there are about 300 million internet users, therefor about 14 million IE6 users.
  
  Can a developer ignore that? to be sure, no one site is getting all those 300 million people! so it might be more informative for developers to get more detailed IE6-usage stats based on the demographics of your target market.
StatCounter: 4.7% (May 2010)
w3schools: 7.1% (May 2010)
What enterprise still uses IE 6? Try Intel | ZDNet

This page is intended as an overview and introduction to sources of statistical information available on the Internet.

Included graphics are not provided to reflect current statistics but to give examples of how information is presented by different providers.

Browsers, Operating Systems, ...
(A blank space in the table does not necessarily mean information is not available/collected/presented but that we have not seen it when we looked.)

		GlobalStats StatCounter	W3Counter	W3Schools	marketshare. hitslink.com	statowl.com	netcraft.com
Clients
	Browser	X	X	X	X	X
	Trends	?	X	X (text)	X	X
	IE details		X
	trends		X			X
	Browser Version	X				X
	Mobile Browser	X			X
	Operating System	X	X	X	X	X
	with trends	?	?	X	X
	Mobile OS	X			X
	Search Engine	X			X	X
	Mobile Search	X
	Mobile vs. Desktop	X
	Screen resolutions	-	X	X	X	X
	JavaScript			(X)
	Plug ins					X		Flash, Shockwave, Google Gears, Quicktime, Windows Media Player, Silverlight, Java, ...
	Countries	-	X
	MORE/OTHER				Yes	Yes

Servers
	Hostnames						X
	Web Servers						X
	Reliability						X

Notes
	Info below...	yes	yes	yes		yes	yes
	notes	Flash-based, advanced selection of criterias	Text, graphics; trends in Flash	Text	some for-pay	Flash-based, advanced selection of criterias
	checked	20100413	20100413	20100413	20100413	20100413	20100413

http://www.serverwatch.com/stats/ - articles, not found any graphics or tabularized data (2010-04-13)
http://www.google.com/search?q=web+server+market+shares
More...

Adobe Flash
References, More, Unsorted

w3counter

www.w3counter.com/globalstats.php - one page summarizing Browsers, Operating Systems, Countries, and Screen Resolutions. Example (from June 2009, not showing Countries):

Browsers:
(show top 5 here)

IE7

30%

IE8 (Internet Explorer 8) (released March 19, 2009 - about three months after statistics was compiled) still has a very low market share. An indication on how slow people are on upgrading from IE6 and IE7.

IE6

24%

FF3

19%

FF2

10%

IE8

Operating Systems:
(show top 5 here)

Win XP

69%

Win Vista

16%

Mac OS X

5.5%

Linux

2.1%

Win 2000

1.7%

Screen Resolutions:
(show top 8 here)

1024x768

38%

At least 87% has 1024x768 or larger (among the top 8 only 800x600 is smaller).

Resolution	Aspect Ratio	Wide	Pixels	Comments
1024x768	1.33 (4:3)	no	786,432	XGA; 15-19" monitors
1280x800	1.6 (16:10)	Yes	1024,000	WXGA; 15-19" monitors
1440x900	1.6 (16:10)	Yes	1,296,000	WSXGA; 15" laptops (e.g. Mac)
1280x1024	1.25 (5:4)	no	1,310,720	SXGA; 17"-19" monitors
1680x1050	1.6 (16:10)	Yes	1,764,000	WSXGA+; 20"-22" monitors
1920x1200	1.6 (16:10)	Yes	2,304,000	WUXGA; 23-24" monitors

1280x800

17.8%

1280x1024

14.3%

1440x900

7.1%

800x600

1680x1050

4.9%

1152x864

3.1%

1920x1200

1.6%

w3schools

w3schools.com/browsers/ - Browser Statistics, also OS Platform Statistics and Browser Display Statistics

	FF (Firefox) continue to gain market share from Microsoft IE browsers.

	Same finding as above (from w3counter) - that 1024x768 and larger is what users have. According to the data to the right, 93% (57% + 36%) has monitors with at least 1024x768 pixels resolution.
	Color depth is at large no concern any longer (in general). Though specific devices may have its own limitations and more colors adds size to graphics and photos.

GlobalStats StatCounter

GlobalStats StatCounter - gs.statcounter.com/ (flash-based) trends for browsers, operating systems, ... including mobile platforms. Can also select different geographical regions.