Looking at Market Shares’ end of the year trend and stats an interesting picture of were we are and what we are doing as-far-as Search Engine usage, Browsers, and Screen Sizes, other stats are also available on their great site as well if you in the trade.The following is snap shot of there data (numbers rounded up):
Browser use:
- Internet Explore 68%
- Fire Fox 21%
- Safari 8%
- Chrome 1%
- Others 2%
Search Engines:
- Google 81%
- Yahoo 10%
- MSN/Live 5%
- Other 3%
Screen Sizes:
- 1024 x 768 37%
- 1280 x 800 20%
- 1280 x 1024 13%
- 1440 x 900 8%
- 1680 x 1050 6 %
- other 17 %
In summary, we can say that IE, though slightly down, remain top dog but others gained about 1% each, and Fire Fox finally passed the 20% mark. Google still rules the nest for search engines, as Yahoo continues to slide Microsoft with MSN and Live is slow to make any gains. On the screen resolution, the march forward continues with 84% of us using a resolution of 1024 x 768 or higher (this might grow post-holiday based on huge deal offers).
