It has been a number of months since I checked into browser stats. After doing the rounds of my sites and found IE is slipping fast and Firefox is closing in on the leading browser. Here are the stats from one of my non-Microsoft centric sites:
| 55.45 % | IE |
| 37.13 % | Firefox |
| 3.08 % | Chrome |
| 2.32 % | Safari |
| 1.44 % | Opera |
That is a big shift from the past where IE had 85% of the market. While Firefox has moved to be the real contender to IE, it is worth noting how in only being available for about a month, Google’s Chrome has already supplanted Opera and Safari.
While different sites had a small variation from the above stats they were still quite close and IE never topped 56% which is a massive loss of market share. Even with that percentage, almost 30% of those using IE where still using IE 6, which has vast rending flaws.
Microsoft needs to get their heads out of the “clouds” and get to work in making sure IE 8 is ready for primetime or they will find themselves in the minority of market share even though they have the majority by Operating System.