Computer World’s Gregg Keizer writes that two firms have put out two wildly different sets of numbers for which browsers were the most used in June 2012. First, the numbers from Net Applications, which say that Microsoft’s Internet Explorer took the top spot this past month with a 54% market share, followed distantly by Mozilla’s Firefox with 20% and Google’s Chrome with 19%. Analytics firm StatCounter, however, showed vastly different results with Chrome taking the top spot with a 32.8% share, followed by Explorer with 32.2% and Firefox with 24.6%. The reason for the large swing in results is that StatCounter relies on page view totals while Net Applications uses unique visitors and only counts one visit per day to determine browser usage. So who’s right? Without a deep look into each firms’ methodologies it’s impossible to say, although it seems realistic that more people still use Internet Explorer than alternatives.
And the world’s most popular browser is… who knows?
Updated Dec 19th, 2018 8:28PM EST
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Brad Reed has written about technology for over eight years at BGR.com and Network World. Prior to that, he wrote freelance stories for political publications such as AlterNet and the American Prospect. He has a Master's Degree in Business and Economics Journalism from Boston University.
