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Browser Wars: StatCounter Data for Europe
In: Browsers| Internet| Technology| The Web| Web Performance| Web analytics| analytics
17 Apr 2009In the previous installment in this series, I looked at the browser share in North America. Across the water in Europe, the browser distribution metrics show the unique flavor that this continent brings to this fluid arena.
In Europe, MSIE7 and Firefox 3 are effectively tied for the lead as the most dominant browser, followed distantly [...]
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- Tags: browser share, browser war, Europe, Firefox 3, Microsoft, MSIE6, MSIE7, MSIE8, North America, Opera 9.6
MSIE6 Euthanized. Rejoicing Among Web Developers Begins.
In: Browsers| The Web| Web Performance| Web analytics| analytics
13 Apr 2009It’s official. According to the IE Dev Blog at MSDN, MSIE8 will be the direct upgrade path via Windows Update in the third week of April. [here]
I discussed the slow decrease in MSIE6 browser share earlier today, but it is not occurring fast enough for my liking. It is a browser from what seems like [...]
Browser Wars: StatCounter Data for North America
In: Browsers| Internet| The Web| Web Performance| Web analytics| analytics
13 Apr 2009Tracking browser penetration and market share has become a new obsession with me. With 2009 shaping up to be the year of the browser container, the choices that people make will affect the development of Web technologies for the next few years.
So far, the only new player to come out of the gate as a [...]
Why Chrome 2.0 Dev was Deleted
In: Browsers| Internet| Technology| Web analytics| analytics
30 Mar 2009I deleted Chrome 2.0 from my system on Friday for one very powerful reason: When it is installed, it makes itself the default browser.
Its performance gains and light weight were impressive. But its invasion of my system was uncalled for.
No matter which browser you set to be the default browser, Chrome 2.0 prevents that browser [...]
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- Tags: Browsers, Chrome, Google Chrome
The Rise of MSIE 8
In: Browsers| Internet| Technology| The Web| Web Performance| Web analytics| analytics
28 Mar 2009In the 10 days since its public release, MSIE8 has made a run up the charts. Courtesy of the great folks at StatCounter and their public analytics data, this growing browser share for MSIE8 can be easily followed.
In the US, prior to its release, MSIE8 RC1 was in sixth position behind even the old battleship [...]
Browsers and Affect on Revenue
In: Browsers| The Web| Web Performance| Web analytics| WebPerformance.Org| analytics
24 Mar 2009A great follow-up to my post on Browser Stats is this slide deck from Gomez on Online Revenue and Browsers Performance.
Protect Your Online Revenue – Best Practices For Ensuring Your Web Applications Perform Across Browsers
NB: I do work for Gomez.
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StatCounter Browser Stats – March 1-24 2009
In: Browsers| GrabPERF| Internet| The Web| Uncategorized| Web Performance| Web analytics| analytics
24 Mar 2009Using the visitor trending data collected and shared by StatCounter, I have undertaken a general analysis of browser distribution by global region. These metrics are collected using the embedded tags that StatCounter customers embed on their site to collect visitor metrics for their own use.
US data shows that MSIE 7.0 is in a dominant position, [...]
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- Tags: Asia, China, European Union, Firefox, Firefox 3.0, India, Japan, Microsoft, Microsoft Corporation, Microsoft Windows, MSIE 6.0, MSIE 7.0, MSIE 8.0, Oceania, Opera 9.6, Safari, South America, South Korea, StatCounter, StatCounter GlobalStats, United States, web application, web applications, web compliance reasons, Web designers nightmare, Web development, Windows 2000
MSIE8 QOTD and other browser war comments
In: Browsers| Internet| The Web| Web Performance
20 Mar 2009Here’s what the difference between the companies boils down to: Microsoft is focusing on today’s Web, and the rivals are focusing on tomorrow’s.
Stephen Shankland via Browser war centers on once-obscure JavaScript
This sums up many of the comments that I have made about browsers over the months [see Does the browser really matter?]. The browser is [...]
Internet Explorer 8 – Coming to a Site Near You!
19 Mar 2009Tomorrow morning, at 09:00 PDT, Microsoft unleashes IE 8.0 on an unsuspecting Internet.
By 12:00 PDT, the number of Web sites having to put up IE 7.0 only stickers will be in the millions.
I haven’t done a lot of testing of the new monster (I mainly use Firefox on Mac OS 10.5.6), but it doesn’t seem [...]
New Domains Pointed to Newest Industry
In: Browsers| Internet| Web Performance| Web analytics| WebPerformance.Org
17 Mar 2009For a number of years, I have owned three very popular domain names: WebPerformance.org, WebCaching.org, and WebCompression.org. Last night, after many days of consideration, I stopped pointing them at their own distinct Web space and pointed them at this blog.
This is not a bad or evil thing, considering that for at least 18 months, the [...]
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- Tags: Andy King, apache, caching, internet performance, performancefreaks.org, performanceguru.org, PHP, Web Measurement, Web Measurement Series, Web Output Using mod_deflate, Web Output Using mod_gzip, Web Performance, Web performance traffic, Web Performance Tuning, webcaching.org, webcompression.org, WebPerformance.Org