Most Popular Web Browsers

∟Year 2012 Reports

∟Most Popular Web Browsers

The most popular Web browsers based on browser signature strings in log files for year 2012 with no log files missing.

The following table shows the most popular Web browsers for year 2012 with no log files missing. Data used in this table come from the browser summary report generated by Analog 6.0 using log files from herongyang.com.

  pages   %pages   browser
-------   ------   --------
1656332   22.41%   MSIE
 584475    7.91%     MSIE/8
 412092    5.57%     MSIE/6
 326457    4.42%     MSIE/9
 256044    3.46%     MSIE/7
  58197    0.79%     MSIE/5
   8157    0.11%     MSIE/4
   5272    0.07%     MSIE/10
   2891    0.04%     MSIE/2
   1833    0.02%     MSIE/3
    575    0.01%     MSIE/999
1639707   22.18%   Netscape (compatible)
1609487   21.77%   Safari
 464537    6.28%     Safari/537
 438969    5.94%     Safari/535
 251904    3.41%     Safari/536
 138801    1.88%     Safari/534
 108782    1.47%     Safari/7534
  77090    1.04%     Safari/533
  45976    0.62%     Safari/6531
  33981    0.46%     Safari/8536
  33955    0.46%     Safari/6533
   3756    0.05%     Safari/530
1390960   18.82%   Firefox
 273879    3.70%     Firefox/3
 143935    1.95%     Firefox/12
 136478    1.85%     Firefox/11
 119685    1.62%     Firefox/10
 114942    1.55%     Firefox/16
 104896    1.42%     Firefox/14
 100169    1.36%     Firefox/15
  95771    1.30%     Firefox/13
  90168    1.22%     Firefox/9
  54218    0.73%     Firefox/17
 312577    4.23%   Mediapartners-Google
 250138    3.38%   Sogou web spider
 250138    3.38%     Sogou web spider/4
 148983    2.02%   Opera
 119089    1.61%     Opera/9
  12934    0.17%     Opera/8
  12764    0.17%     Opera/7
   3949    0.05%     Opera/6
  56876    0.77%   Wget
  56873    0.77%     Wget/1
  34669    0.47%   Mozilla
   2507    0.03%     Mozilla/1
    901    0.01%     Mozilla/7
  33940    0.46%   Netscape
  29943    0.41%     Netscape/4
   3616    0.05%     Netscape/0
  18081    0.24%   Sosospider+(+http:
  18081    0.24%     Sosospider+(+http://help
  15001    0.20%   msnbot
  14976    0.20%     msnbot/2
  14856    0.20%   ia_archiver (+http:
  14856    0.20%     ia_archiver (+http://www
  13886    0.19%   Yahoo! Slurp China
  13666    0.18%   SAMSUNG-SGH-E250
  13666    0.18%     SAMSUNG-SGH-E250/1
  13061    0.18%   Java
  13061    0.18%     Java/1
  12685    0.17%   DoCoMo
  12684    0.17%     DoCoMo/2
  10442    0.14%   Internet Explorer
  10419    0.14%   SiteSucker
  10419    0.14%     SiteSucker/2
   8034    0.11%   WebCopier v4.5

Comparing to year 2011, MSIE was the biggest loser and Safari was the biggest winner. MSIE's percentage value decreased from 30.29% to 22.41%. Safari's percentage value increased from 15.20% to 21.77%. Firefox's percentage value decreased from 21.36 to 18.82%.