[citation][nom]chucko[/nom]There is no way that Statcounter is correct. Here is a completely different set of numbers:http
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@chucko
That data you linked to is from NetApplications, a company whose data I will never trust again.
I've been visiting these browser tracking sites regularly and viewing their data years before Chrome even existed. In the beginning, I relied mainly on NetApplications data but then noticed with amazement that they had persistently claimed that Apple's OSX had 10% of global share, which was absolutely impossible since Apple's sales figures indicated that they couldn't have more than 3-4% global market share at the time. However, it just so happened that hardware sales data indicated that Apple's machines had about 10% of the US market and only 50% of their sales were to the rest of the globe! Coincidence? No. Further investigation revealed that NetApplications overwhelmingly gets their data from sites that primarily services users living in the North American market, causing their so-called 'global' data to be severely skewed to resemble the North American market instead of the global market. And that explained how they came up with that erroneous OSX global data. The media was using their data as gospel, and no one paid any attention to the obvious flaws in the numbers, simply ignoring the fact that all the other browser analysis were painting a totally different picture.
Then suddenly, NetApplication announced that they had 'changed their methodology' and their numbers suddenly began to look more like what StatCounter and others were saying all along. However, they're still mainly tracking sites that overwhelmingly get their traffic from the English-speaking North American market and they're still trying to use that kind of limited, flawed sample to claim they know what the global picture looks like. Meanwhile, the media continues to quote them as if the years that they spent giving the world wrong information didn't happen. Sorry, but I'm not buying it.
NetApplications only monitors about 40,000 sites. StatCounter monitors well over 3 million sites from across the globe, and they have so much data from each and every country that they can provide daily stats on every country out there. I've looked at independent data from specific countries and compared them to what StatCounter has tallied and the data and trends match up quite well. That's why I have far more confidence in StatCounter's global data figures.
/netmarketshare.com/browser- [...] pcustomd=0[/citation]@chucko
That data you linked to is from NetApplications, a company whose data I will never trust again.
I've been visiting these browser tracking sites regularly and viewing their data years before Chrome even existed. In the beginning, I relied mainly on NetApplications data but then noticed with amazement that they had persistently claimed that Apple's OSX had 10% of global share, which was absolutely impossible since Apple's sales figures indicated that they couldn't have more than 3-4% global market share at the time. However, it just so happened that hardware sales data indicated that Apple's machines had about 10% of the US market and only 50% of their sales were to the rest of the globe! Coincidence? No. Further investigation revealed that NetApplications overwhelmingly gets their data from sites that primarily services users living in the North American market, causing their so-called 'global' data to be severely skewed to resemble the North American market instead of the global market. And that explained how they came up with that erroneous OSX global data. The media was using their data as gospel, and no one paid any attention to the obvious flaws in the numbers, simply ignoring the fact that all the other browser analysis were painting a totally different picture.
Then suddenly, NetApplication announced that they had 'changed their methodology' and their numbers suddenly began to look more like what StatCounter and others were saying all along. However, they're still mainly tracking sites that overwhelmingly get their traffic from the English-speaking North American market and they're still trying to use that kind of limited, flawed sample to claim they know what the global picture looks like. Meanwhile, the media continues to quote them as if the years that they spent giving the world wrong information didn't happen. Sorry, but I'm not buying it.
NetApplications only monitors about 40,000 sites. StatCounter monitors well over 3 million sites from across the globe, and they have so much data from each and every country that they can provide daily stats on every country out there. I've looked at independent data from specific countries and compared them to what StatCounter has tallied and the data and trends match up quite well. That's why I have far more confidence in StatCounter's global data figures.
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