Hello Steemians,
We are all able to interact on this beautiful platform majorly because of the the internet and then the blockchain, but there is an important element that renders all the techy and not so good looking code to something we can all interact with easily;the web browser.In this post, I check out the most used web browsers currently.
I used statcounter to get the data, they have amazing amount of data available on internet Stats
Top Browsers July 2017
I was able to get very recent data from statcounter, data as recent as last month
| Browser | Market Share |
|---|---|
| Chrome | 54.3 |
| Safari | 14.15 |
| UC Browser | 8.57 |
| Firefox | 5.73 |
| IE | 3.74 |
| Opera | 3.98 |
| Samsung Internet | 3.53 |
| Android | 2.47 |
| Edge | 1.74 |
| IEMobile | 0.34 |
| Others | 1.45 |
You can see from the chart that Chrome is by far the most used web browser with a market share of 54.3%, Safari and Uc Browser round up the top 3 with 14.15% and 8.57% market share respectively . Interesting to note that Microsoft has two browsers in the top 10; IE, Edge and IE mobile. IE and IE mobile have been discontinued by microsoft but from the data,both browsers are still being used
Are you using the latest version ??
While data in the previous paragraph shows which browser has the largest market share, it doesnt specify what the version of that browser is. The importance of always having the latest version of any software you are using cannot be overemphasized, there has been a lot of ransomware attacks recently,the hackers tend to target users running older versions of software most times,so it is best to ensure that all your softwares are running on the latest version, a security bug might be in the older version and getting the latest version might be the only way to fix that bug.There is data available on market share of each browser version on statcounter. I am going to pick out 3 browsers for this analysis
Chrome
The latest version of chrome is Chrome 60 but you can see from the chart, chrome 60 is only installed on about 1% of the machines currently indexed by statcounter.A massive 19% of the machines are running on versions of chrome older than chrome 59
Safari
Safari has a very impressive 65% of users currently using the latest safari version (Safari 10.1) but there is still a substantial number of people (9%) using versions of safari older than Safari 9.0
IE/Edge
From the release of Windows 10, Microsoft developed a new browser that would eventually replace Internet Explorer completely but Internet Explorer 11 is still the most used version. Support for any version for Internet Explorer older than Internet Explorer 11 has been stopped so its frighteningly amazing a lot of machines are still using Internet Explorer 10 and other older versions
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