IE Loses More Ground To Firefox

Q. Why is this information important to you?

A. In the early to mid 90's Netscape was the browser of choice on the web with over 90%. Now it is less than 1%. So by keeping up with browsers being used a web developer must view his/her work via all the different browsers. And stay on top of what the visitors to your site may use. It is sad but many professional sites are not able to be viewed or parts do not work based on the browser being used.

It is important that your site looks the same and operates the same in all of the top browsers, with a decline in IE that means more and more will view your site via another browser. The last thing you want is your site to look bad or not work as it should due to a few minor changes in the code. SO we view your site in IE, Firefox, Opera, and Netscape, then we tweak it to work and look it's best in all four browsers. For the most part 99 out of 100 times this tweaking will work for all the browsers, but at the very least your site will look good and work in 99% of all browsers.

A recent report from web analytics firm One Stat reveals that
Mozilla Firefox usage worldwide has increased by nearly 3 percent
since April 2005, pulling Web surfers away from Microsoft Internet
Explorer, Netscape and Opera.

Firefox's global usage share has reached 11.5 percent, says One
Stat. Internet Explorer is still the browser of choice for the
vast majority of the online world, commanding 85.45 percent, based
on reports from over 2 million users.

In the United States and Canada, however, Firefox is much more
popular. Just over 14 percent of US net-surfers use Firefox as
their primary browser, compared to 80.73 percent for IE. Almost
17 percent of Canadians prefer Firefox to 78.52 percent in favor
of IE.

In Germany over 23% are using Firefox and IE is now less than 70%.