Comments on: Fun with numbers a boon for StatCounter

The Web-tracking service claims IE market share has dropped off since March, but should we believe the numbers?

[Super2online]

It just goes to show you that all of these monthly stats should be taken with a grain of salt and more accurately measured quarterly, bi-annually and from annual time frames.

[Random_Walk]

Hint: reliance on any one source for such info is, well... stupid.

OTOH, The IE/Firefox overall trends are verified by multiple stat/share-counting companies, not just Stat Counter.

...so unless IE 8's "compatibility mode" involves changing the user agent from "MSIE" to "Mozilla" in its header, IE is still losing marketshare.

As for when it becomes small enough to be irrelevant? Dunno, don't care. Personally, I'd like to see it get to (and stay at) 50/50, or maybe 33/33/33 (with Safari in the mix).

[badasscat]

Safari doesn't deserve to be in the same market share league, especially not with its latest release that crashes continuously on a large number of people's computers. (See the Apple support forum).

Chrome, maybe.

But yes, this trend is verified by a variety of services, and it jibes with what I'm seeing on the various sites I administer as well. IE7 was so poorly received that many people are just giving up on IE altogether rather than upgrade to IE8. And IE8 hasn't gotten great word of mouth either, although I've been telling people it is marginally better than IE7. It still crashes my computer entirely if I leave it open longer than a day, which is pretty unacceptable.