Browser Statistics Month by Month
2008 IE7 IE6 IE5 Fx Moz S O
March 21.9% 30.1% 1.1% 37.0% 1.1% 2.1% 1.4%
February 21.5% 30.7% 1.3% 36.5% 1.2% 2.0% 1.4%
January 21.2% 32.0% 1.5% 36.4% 1.3% 1.9% 1.4%
               
2007 IE7 IE6 IE5 Fx Moz S O
December 21.0% 33.2% 1.7% 36.3% 1.4% 1.7% 1.4%
November 20.8% 33.6% 1.6% 36.3% 1.2% 1.8% 1.6%
October 20.7% 34.5% 1.5% 36.0% 1.3% 1.7% 1.6%
September 20.8% 34.9% 1.5% 35.4% 1.2% 1.6% 1.5%
August 20.5% 35.7% 1.5% 34.9% 1.3% 1.5% 1.7%
July 20.1% 36.9% 1.5% 34.5% 1.4% 1.5% 1.9%
June 19.7% 37.3% 1.5% 34.0% 1.4% 1.5% 1.8%
May 19.2% 38.1% 1.6% 33.7% 1.3% 1.5% 1.7%
April 19.1% 38.4% 1.7% 32.9% 1.3% 1.5% 1.6%
March 18.0% 38.7% 2.0% 31.8% 1.3% 1.6% 1.6%
February 16.4% 39.8% 2.5% 31.2% 1.4% 1.7% 1.5%
January 13.3% 42.3% 3.0% 31.0% 1.5% 1.7% 1.5%
               
2006 IE7 IE6 IE5 Fx Moz N7/8 O
November 7.1% 49.9% 3.6% 29.9% 2.5% 0.2% 1.5%
September 2.5% 55.6% 4.0% 27.3% 2.3% 0.4% 1.6%
July 1.9% 56.3% 4.2% 25.5% 2.3% 0.4% 1.4%
May 1.1% 57.4% 4.5% 25.7% 2.3% 0.3% 1.5%
March 0.6% 58.8% 5.3% 24.5% 2.4% 0.5% 1.5%
January 0.2% 60.3% 5.5% 25.0% 3.1% 0.5% 1.6%
               
2005 IE6 IE5 Fx Moz N7 O8 O7
November 62.7% 6.2% 23.6% 2.8% 0.4% 1.3% 0.2%
September 69.8% 5.7% 18.0% 2.5% 0.4% 1.0% 0.2%
July 67.9% 5.9% 19.8% 2.6% 0.5% 0.8% 0.4%
May 64.8% 6.8% 21.0% 3.1% 0.7% 0.7% 0.6%
March 63.6% 8.9% 18.9% 3.3% 1.0% 0.3% 1.6%
January 64.8% 9.7% 16.6% 3.4% 1.1%   1.9%
               
2004 IE6 IE5 Moz N3 N7 N4 O7
November 66.0% 10.2% 16.5% 0.2% 1.2% 0.3% 1.6%
September 67.8% 11.2% 13.7% 0.3% 1.4% 0.3% 1.7%
July 67.2% 13.2% 12.6% 0.4% 1.4% 0.4% 1.6%
May 68.1% 13.8% 9.5% 0.6% 1.4% 0.4% 1.6%
March 68.2% 14.6% 7.9% 0.8% 1.4% 0.6% 1.4%
January 68.9% 15.8% 5.5% 0.4% 1.5% 0.5% 1.5%
               
2003 IE6 IE5 Moz N3 N7 N4 O7
November 71.2% 13.7% 7.2% 0.5% 1.6% 0.5% 1.9%
September 69.7% 16.9% 6.2% 0.6% 1.5% 0.6% 1.8%
July 66.9% 20.3% 5.7% 0.6% 1.5% 0.6% 1.7%
May 65.0% 22.7% 4.6% 1.0% 1.4% 0.9% 1.4%
March 63.4% 24.6% 4.2% 0.9% 1.4% 1.1% 1.2%
January 55.3% 29.3% 4.0% 1.2% 1.1% 1.7%  
               
2002 IE6 IE5 AOL N3 N5 N4 IE4
November 53.5% 29.9% 5.2% 1.1% 4.9% 2.0%  
September 49.1% 34.4% 4.5% 1.3% 4.5% 2.2%  
July 44.4% 40.1% 3.5% 1.2% 3.5% 2.6% 0.5%
May 40.7% 46.0% 2.8% 1.2% 2.7% 3.4% 0.7%
March 36.7% 49.4% 3.0% 1.2% 2.4% 4.1% 0.7%
January 30.1% 55.7% 2.8% 1.3% 2.2% 4.4% 1.0%


IE Internet Explorer
Fx Firefox (identified as Mozilla before 2005)
Moz The Mozilla Suite (Safari, Konqueror, Gecko, Netscape)
S Safari (identified as Mozilla before 2007)
O Opera
N Netscape (identified as Mozilla after 2006)
AOL America Online (based on both Internet Explorer and Mozilla)

* Browsers that count for less than 0.5% are not listed.


OS Platform Statistics

Current trend is that Windows XP is growing fast. The windows family counts for more than 90%:

2008 WinXP W2000 Win98 Vista W2003 Linux Mac
March 72.6% 3.7% 1.1% 8.4% 1.9% 3.9% 4.4%
February 72.3% 4.0% 1.0% 7.6% 1.8% 3.8% 4.3%
January 73.6% 4.0% 0.8% 7.3% 1.9% 3.6% 4.4%
               
2007 WinXP W2000 Win98 Vista W2003 Linux Mac
November 73.8% 5.1% 1.0% 6.3% 2.0% 3.3% 3.9%
September 74.3% 5.4% 0.9% 4.5% 2.0% 3.4% 3.9%
July 74.6% 6.0% 0.9% 3.6% 2.0% 3.4% 4.0%
May 75.0% 6.5% 0.9% 2.8% 1.9% 3.4% 3.9%
March 76.0% 7.2% 0.9% 1.9% 1.9% 3.4% 3.8%
January 76.1% 7.7% 1.0% 0.6% 1.9% 3.6% 3.8%
               
2006 WinXP W2000 Win98 WinNT W2003 Linux Mac
November 74.9% 8.0% 1.0% 0.3% 1.9% 3.5% 3.6%
September 74.6% 9.2% 1.4% 0.3% 2.0% 3.5% 3.6%
July 74.3% 10.1% 1.5% 0.3% 2.0% 3.4% 3.6%
May 74.2% 10.7% 1.6% 0.2% 2.0% 3.4% 3.6%
March 72.9% 11.9% 2.0% 0.3% 1.8% 3.4% 3.5%
January 72.3% 13.1% 2.4% 0.3% 1.7% 3.3% 3.5%
               
2005 WinXP W2000 Win98 WinNT W2003 Linux Mac
November 71.0% 14.6% 2.7% 0.4% 1.7% 3.3% 3.3%
September 69.2% 15.8% 3.2% 0.5% 1.7% 3.3% 3.1%
July 65.3% 17.7% 3.9% 0.6% 1.6% 3.5% 3.0%
May 64.5% 19.4% 3.9% 0.8% 1.4% 3.3% 2.9%
March 63.1% 20.2% 4.7% 0.9% 1.4% 3.2% 3.0%
January 61.3% 21.6% 5.3% 1.0% 1.2% 3.2% 2.8%
                  
2004 WinXP W2000 Win98 WinNT Win95 Linux Mac
November 59.1% 23.7% 5.6% 1.2% 0.1% 3.1% 2.7%
September 55.9% 26.2% 6.4% 1.5% 0.2% 3.1% 2.6%
July 52.5% 28.4% 7.5% 1.9% 0.2% 3.1% 2.4%
May 51.0% 29.6% 8.2% 2.0% 0.3% 2.9% 2.5%
March 48.0% 31.1% 9.4% 2.4% 0.4% 2.6% 2.4%
January 44.1% 33.6% 10.4% 3.0% 0.4% 2.7% 2.4%
               
2003 WinXP W2000 Win98 WinNT Win95 Linux Mac
November 42.6% 36.3% 10.9% 3.5% 0.4% 2.6% 2.2%
September 38.0% 37.9% 12.1% 4.1% 0.5% 2.4% 2.0%
July 33.9% 40.6% 12.6% 5.3% 0.6% 2.3% 1.9%
May 31.4% 41.0% 13.9% 5.8% 0.7% 2.2% 1.8%
March 29.1% 41.9% 14.8% 6.6% 0.8% 2.2% 1.8%

Platforms that count for less than 0.5% are not listed.


Display Resolution

The current trend is that more and more computers are using a screen size of 1024x768 pixels:

2007 Higher 1024x768 800x600 640x480 Unknown
January 26% 54% 14% 0% 6%
           
2006          
July 19% 58% 17% 0% 6%
January 17% 57% 20% 0% 6%
           
2005          
July 14% 55% 25% 0% 6%
January 12% 53% 30% 0% 5%
           
2004          
July 10% 50% 35% 1% 4%
January 10% 47% 37% 1% 5%
           
2003          
July 8% 43% 44% 2% 5%
January 6% 40% 47%     2% 5%
            
2002            
October  6% 38% 49% 2% 5%


Color Depth

The current trend is that more and more computers use 24 or 32 bits hardware to display 16,777,216 different colors:

2007 16,777,216 65,536 256
January 86% 11% 2%
       
2006       
July 85% 13% 2%
January 81% 16% 3%
       
2005      
July 77% 20% 3%
January 72% 25% 3%
       
2004      
July 69% 28% 3%
January 65% 31% 4%
       
2003      
July 55% 40% 5%
January 51%  44% 5%
       
2002       
October 49% 46% 5%

Older computers and laptops often use 16 bits display hardware. This gives a maximum of 65,000 different colors.

Handheld computers (and very old computers) often use 8 bits color hardware. This gives a maximum of 256 colors


Java Script Statistics

There are no absolute trends about the use of Java Script. Some users have scripting turned off. Some browsers don't support scripting:

2007 JavaScript On JavaScript Off
January 94% 6%
     
2006    
July 92% 8%
January 90% 10%
     
2005    
July 90% 10%
January 89% 11%
     
2004    
July 90% 10%
January 92% 8%
     
2003    
July 89% 11%
January 89%  11%
     
2002     
October 88% 12%

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