Browser Statistics – December 2012

The web browser statistics have been released through December 2012. The stats are published monthly at W3CSchools.com.

Below are the web browser stats for December 2012.

2012 IE9 IE8 IE7 IE6
January 5.3% 10.5% 3.1% 1.1%
February 5.7% 10.2% 2.6% 1.0%
March 6.1% 9.4% 2.5% 0.9%
April 6.4% 8.8% 2.3% 0.7%
May 6.5% 8.8% 2.1% 0.6%
June 6.1% 8.0% 1.9% 0.6%
July 5.9% 7.7% 2.0% 0.6%
August 6.1% 7.8% 1.8% 0.5%
September 6.6% 7.9% 1.3% 0.4%
October 6.8% 7.6% 1.2% 0.3%
November 6.5% 6.8% 1.1% 0.3%
December 5.9% 6.8% 1.1% 0.3%
2012 Firefox Chrome Safari Opera
January 37.1% 35.3% 4.3% 2.4%
February 36.6% 36.3% 4.5% 2.3%
March 36.3% 37.3% 4.4% 2.3%
April 35.8% 38.3% 4.5% 2.3%
May 35.2% 39.3% 4.3% 2.2%
June 34.4% 41.7% 4.1% 2.2%
July 33.7% 42.9% 3.9% 2.1%
August 32.8% 43.7% 4.0% 2.2%
September 32.2% 44.1% 4.2% 2.1%
October 31.8% 44.9% 4.3% 2.0%
November 31.2% 46.3% 4.4% 2.0%
December 31.1% 46.9% 4.2% 2.1%

This month, Internet Explorer lost some of their IE9 users while maintaining their stats for the other versions of their browser. Firefox is continuing to decrease in popularity as Chrome increases, as usual, and Safari is hovering between 4 and 4.5 percent as has been the case for most of the year, just like Opera at around 2 percent. What browser do you prefer to use? Why? Please let us know your thoughts!