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Market share of IE

by damenchoy
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I have noted there are a large variations of the estimate of # of worldwide users of IE as compared to the browsers' number.

For example, a newly released estimate by Net Applications indicates IE has more than 50% market share:

IE global share of 54% in October as the only winner - Technology News

However, I also noted some other estimates indicate IE has only got as low as 25% market share. please check out this one:

Usage share of web browsers - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Whom should we believe? Why are there so large variations among different estimating bodies?

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  • Profile picture of the author shane_k
    I don't see how the market share of IE is important, and how it would apply to Internet Marketing.

    Would be curious to how you attach those two together.
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    • Profile picture of the author damenchoy
      Originally Posted by shane_k View Post

      I don't see how the market share of IE is important, and how it would apply to Internet Marketing.

      Would be curious to how you attach those two together.
      It is because you need to pay extra effort when building websites to entertain IE visitors as IE behaves differently in many ways as compared to other browsers.

      Those effort could be put to better use in other ways like SEO, social media, etc. if we can ignore this browser.

      But that depends very much on it's market share.

      That is why this concern comes out.
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  • Profile picture of the author rosetrees
    Here you are. I use the free version of statcounter, which monitors the last 500 visitors to any site. Here is a composite of the last 500 visitors to 6 sites.

    Some are my own and some belong to clients. The niches are all different.

    At a rough guess, I would say IE averages around 35%
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  • Profile picture of the author taskemann
    Remember that different groups uses different browsers.

    For example the ones that has some knowledge about computers and Internet normally uses FireFox and Chrome, while IE users normally are computer "newbies" and old folx. Like my dad who install 100 different toolbars and fill his laptop up with malware everytime he use the web
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    • Profile picture of the author Brandon Tanner
      As Big Mike suggested, the only stats that really matter are your own. I've found that browser stats can vary wildly depending on the niche (ie the more "tech savvy" niches seem to prefer Firefox, Chrome, Safari, etc., while most of the "mainstream" niches still seem to prefer IE).

      But it's good to know not only which browser your visitors are using, but also what version of each browser they are using... especially when you're dealing with IE... because each version of IE since Windows XP (6/7/8/9), can and often will render your pages differently! Firefox, Chrome, Safari, Opera, etc, on the other hand, seem to be a lot more consistent.
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    • Profile picture of the author Jesse L
      Originally Posted by taskemann View Post

      Remember that different groups uses different browsers.

      For example the ones that has some knowledge about computers and Internet normally uses FireFox and Chrome, while IE users normally are computer "newbies" and old folx. Like my dad who install 100 different toolbars and fill his laptop up with malware everytime he use the web
      LOL That sounds like my mother.. :rolleyes:

      But you are correct, it does depend on the group.
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