Web browsers UK

Posted by admin on March 16, 2009 Leave a comment (1) Go to comments

The geek in me needs to break free so rather than holding it back, I thought it’s best to let it loose tonight.

Ok, so as you all know IE is world wide the most used browser, I personally only ever use it for work related sites, never at home, so sites which are strangely only coded for IE or do not work for Firefox.
Personally speaking – IE 7 was a step in the right direction, IE 8 beta 1 looks good and has a good emulate feature for IE7 inbuilt but not a touch on my current favourite Chrome.

Google’s Chrome (using now to write this post) is amazingly quick and built in search engine and look and feel is just that slightly better than Firefox.
Having said that I love my plug ins, SEO plug ins, Met Office weather warnings, travel news, sports news, Twitter and facebook plug ins to name a few!

Then you have the European favourite Opera, real cool features, “speed dial” is like a preview of all your favourite sites (Google Chrome’s now offers similar feature) then you have Apples release Safari which Chrome is built on, Safari is quick and has a cool feature with the most popular sites already preloaded so you can search quickly.

So here are the stats break down and graph of the last 6 months in the UK –

Sep 08 to Feb 09

Browser Version Market Share %
IE 7.0 52.43
Firefox 3.0 20.35
IE 6.0 14.44
Firefox 2.0 4
Safari 3.1 2.17
Safari 3.2 1.44
IE 8.0 1.01
Chrome 1.0 0.74
AOL 7.0 0.68
Opera 9.6 0.5

Source: StatCounter Global Stats

Quick overall break down for you –
Microsoft Internet Explorer 6,7 & 8 = 67.88% market share
Mozilla FireFox = 26.35%
Apple Safari = 3.61%
Google Chrome = 0.74%

This mean 2 out 3 of people uses Internet Explorer
1 in 4 users use Firefox – its getting higher
3 % use Safari which is roughly all MAC users in the UK
And lastly new Google browser Chrome has 0.74% of all users in the UK.

This means for the web developers, web geeks out there or the SEO’s – pay attention to IE and firefox.
Keep an eye out for the Big G’s Chrome and Mac’s favourite browser Safari if you want to appeal to the UK masses