We are in the era of the modern browser - market share analysis January 2016
We're on the cusp of a new age - the era of the "modern browser".
As older IE versions are effectively mothballed by Microsoft (bar a few holdouts in the UK public sector and elsewhere, because they weren't able to get their act together with 2 years' notice), I thought we'd take one final snapshot of our browser market share analysis, based on the traffic from a couple of sites: one that targets global Devs, CIOs & CTOs, and another that targets English ABC1s.
Global Developers, CIOs and CTOs
Chrome
69.09%
Firefox
12.51%
Internet Explorer
7.86%
Safari
5.60%
Edge
3.27%
Opera
0.79%
Opera Mini
0.18%
Safari (in-app)
0.18%
Android Browser
0.10%
UC Browser
0.09%
Developers still heavily favour Chrome - almost 70% of you! Firefox is in at number two with 12%, and IE is hanging on in there with a shade under 8%. Microsoft's 10% share amongst developers is, however, maintained, by the 3% usage of Edge we now see.
Looking at IE Versions
11
87.23%
9
6.92%
10
4.31%
8
1.22%
7
0.24%
6
0.08%
Basically, everyone is on IE11. There are a few devs being punished with Vista and XP (And still an IE6 holdout there somewhere, the poor lost soul.)
English ABC1s
Safari
48.52%
Chrome
32.66%
Internet Explorer
9.82%
Firefox
5.19%
Safari (in-app)
1.23%
Edge
0.91%
Android Browser
0.76%
Amazon Silk
0.51%
Opera
0.17%
IE Versions
11
70.20%
9
15.12%
10
9.16%
8
4.65%
7
0.87%
Firefox's decline continues, as does IE's. Edge has just appeared. Safari on IOS continues to dominate with nearly 50% of all browser visits - though this has peaked over the year.
IE's share is now utterly dominated by IE11. A few Vista diehards are on IE 9, and a tiny rump of XP diehards are on IE7 and 8. The number of visits is so low as to be ignorable (fewer than 3% of all visits)
In summary - we really are in the age of the modern browser; not just by dictat, but by consumer behaviour. It's time to forge ahead, and stop specifying IE7/8/9/10 fallbacks in our site designs.
