Browsers

 

 

 

 

I was curious about what the breakdown of browser statistics looked like in 2011, and I was pleasantly surprised by what I found.

These statistics are provided by W3Schools and can be found at: http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_stats.asp.

2011

Internet Explorer

Firefox

Chrome

Safari

Opera
December

20.2 %

37.7 %

34.6 %

4.2 %

2.5 %
November

21.2 %

38.1 %

33.4 %

4.2 %

2.4 %
October

21.7 %

38.7 %

32.3 %

4.2 %

2.4 %
September

22.9 %

39.7 %

30.5 %

4.0 %

2.2 %
August

22.4 %

40.6 %

30.3 %

3.8 %

2.3 %
July

22.0 %

42.0 %

29.4 %

3.6 %

2.4 %
June

23.2 %

42.2 %

27.9 %

3.7 %

2.4 %
May

24.9 %

42.4 %

25.9 %

4.0 %

2.4 %
April

24.3 %

42.9 %

25.6 %

4.1 %

2.6 %
March

25.8 %

42.2 %

25.0 %

4.0 %

2.5 %
February

26.5 %

42.4 %

24.1 %

4.1 %

2.5 %
January

26.6 %

42.8 %

23.8 %

4.0 %

2.5 %

 

I was very happy to see that Chrome usage is starting to pick up… Firefox slightly dropped (presumably some users switching to Chrome), and that Internet Explorer was the lowest usage among the top 3 browsers.

I have to really say that I love and recommend Chrome. It is a sleek/fast browser with a great user experience. Every time I get someone to switch to it from Internet Explorer they are very happy with the speed in which pages load in comparison. Firefox is still great, don’t get me wrong, but as of today… I am a Chrome guy, and I love to recommend it to others.  Chrome does have a bit of a minimalist type design, which can be nice, but confusing at first, for those that are looking for the typical File | Edit | View types of buttons, but you can quickly get used to it. It just takes a little getting used to, to figure out where all the options/menus are.

If you’re a web designer or developer, I do prefer Firefox’s firebug plugin over Chrome’s version of it, so I tend to still do my debugging, and CSS manipulation with Firefox, but for all other browsing I go with Chrome.

That’s just my 2 cents on browser choice :) Hopefully Chrome will continue to keep climbing in popularity!