Browser wise, webmaster have been encouraged by Google to inform their IE6 users about the alternative browser available and the disadvantages of IE6. The effect this has had on IE6 users is debatable, but overall IE6 is slowly disappearing.

Browser Statistics

Biggest Rise: IE8 (+2.13%)

Biggest Fall: IE7 (-1.86%), closely followed by IE6 (-1.22%). IE7 and IE6 large drop in market share is mostly due to IE8 being released (so users are upgrading or switching).

Next month I expect IE8′s market share to increase as more IE7 users should start upgrading. IE6 should continue decreasing as a constant rate.

OS Statistics

Biggest Rise: Vista (+0.54%)
Biggest Fall: WinXP (-0.77%), lots of WinXP users are converting to Vista, Win7, Linux and Mac. However, WinXP is still a market leader.

Apple have recently started another “Windows Sucks” campaign, which criticizes Windows poor security which will affect the growth of Vista and WinXP. I’m expecting a 0.4% increase in Mac’s on the market as a direct affect of this campaign.

Linux may be the underdog next month however; as recent user generated advertisement (the best kind of advertisement) has been very positive, mostly putting empathises on Linux’s Security and Performance. I expect a 0.5% growth.

IE6 Death Date

Over the past few months I’ve been tracking the decline in IE6 market share. On average its current decrease is 0.9% a month, which works out about 0.02% a day. At its current rate, it should reach 0% market share on 13th October 2010 at around 9:36am.

IE8 has been released, but unfortunately will not be a high priority until around the 20th April 2009.

Biggest Rise: Safari (3.09%)
Biggest Fall: Other (-2.82%)

OS Statistics

WinXP is still very dominant, but is losing ground to Vista and other OS’s.

Biggest Rise: Vista (0.31%)
Biggest Fall: WinXP (-0.39%)

Internet Penetration

Latin America/Caribbean and North America had the same increase in Internet Penetration in March 2009. Could the gradual increase in Internet Penetration be a sign that the recession is soon to subside?

Internet Usage

Internet Usage stayed relatively constant in relation the previous month, even though there was an increase in internet penetration.

IE6 is dying slowly; maybe it’s time we drop support for it.

Biggest Rise: Other (2.29%)
Biggest Fall: Safari (-2.45%)  Possibly due to new version of Safari, or that a hacker said Apple Safari is ‘easy pickings’.

OS Statistics

WinXP is still a very dominant. Maybe Windows 7 will be its downfall.

Biggest Rise: Mac (0.9%)
Biggest Fall: WinXP (-0.51%)

Internet Penetration

Latin America/Caribbean internet penetration has grown by 4.5%

Internet Usage

Asians seem to have a high internet usage and is expect to grow even more!

Related Links

W3C Browser Information
Global Market Share Statistics
Internet Traffic Report
The ISC Domain Survey

*This data is an average from approximately 25 differently sources (Some listed above). Feel free to use the graphs and pie charts; however a link back would be appreciated.

FF (33.27%) and IE7 (36.51%) are almost equal in market share.

Biggest Rise: Safari (1.46%)
Biggest Fall: FF (-1.81%), but closely followed by IE6 (-1.18%).

OS Statistics

WinXP is still a very dominant OS even though it had a -1.53% fall.

Biggest Rise: Vista (1.13%)
Biggest Fall: WinXP (-1.53%)

Internet Penetration

North America currently has the largest penetration percentage (73.6%)

Internet Usage

Asia currently has the highest internet usage.