- 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!