Web Statistics Firm Says Apple's Safari Has 0.11% Of Global Browser Market

by , 1:00 PM EST, February 3rd, 2003

A new(ish) Web statistics firm called OneStat.com has released figures showing that Apple's new Safari browser has reached 0.11% of the global browser market since its release at MWSF 2003. As those figures include world-wide browser usage on all platforms, 0.11% of the total market in approximately four weeks of availability limited to a platform with 5 million total users (Steve Jobs said during MWSF 2003 that Mac OS X has 5 million users) is fairly significant.

By way of comparison, OneStat.com says that the latest version of Opera has reached by 0.03% market share. Opera recently made public comments suggesting that the Mac version of its alternative commercial browser was in danger because of Apple's free Safari. Counting all versions of Opera, the browser has 6.07% market share.

Not too surprisingly, Microsoft's Internet Explorer is shown to still be firmly in control of the world's Internet usage. IE's combined market share sits at 95.2%. The firm's press release:

OneStat.com, the number one provider of real-time web site analytics, today reported that Apple's Safari browser has shown a fast adoptation rate with a global usage share of 0.11 percent in the first weeks of its public launch. Opera 7 is not so successful as Apple's Safari. Opera 7 has a global usage share of 0.03 percent in the first weeks of its public launch.

Microsoft still dominates the browser market. As of February 03, 2003, all versions of Microsoft accounted for 95,2 percent of the global usage share market. The total global usage share of Netscape is 2.9 percent and the global usage share of Netscape 7 is 0.64 percent.

The most popular browsers on the web are:

1. Microsoft IE 6.0 60.2%
2. Microsoft IE 5.5 16.8%
3. Microsoft IE 5.0 16.4%
4. Mozilla 1 1.2%
5. Netscape Navigator 4.0 1.0%
6. Microsoft IE 4.0 0.9%
7. Opera 6.0 0.7%

Companies with the largest total global usage shares on the web are:

1. Microsoft IE 95.2%
2. Netscape Navigator 2.9%
3. Mozilla 1.2%

You can get more information about OneStat.com at the company's Web site.

The Mac Observer Spin:

Measuring Internet usage is akin to voodoo, and is hardly an exact science. OneStat's methodology appears to be based on measuring usage on servers that are using one of the company's commercial services. That's as good as any other methodology, at least as far as we are concerned, but we wouldn't bet our last dollar on the absolute validity of the company's numbers.

With that in mind, these numbers back up what other evidence has pointed to, and that is that Safari is a success. Mac users want an alternative browser, plain as plain can be.