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Last month I noted that Firefox edged out Internet Explorer as the most used browser visiting pages on this site¹, 41.21% to 41.07%. Not much, admittedly, but it was a surprise. That was last month. Now look at this:


Firefox is now well ahead of Internet Explorer in total visits. Chrome is gaining ground, but Safari is losing ground. The total number of visits (4762) is a little less than what I reported in February (4979). That change is small enough that it's not likely to have affected the results.

NetMarketShare still reports that IE is the dominant browser (62%) followed by Firefox (24%) and Chrome (6%). So face it. I'm not the only peculiar one around here. So are my visitors.²

I was looking over Google Analytics results for this website,¹ and I noticed something very interesting about the browsers visitors use:

More visitors use Firefox than Internet Explorer. Granted, Firefox wins by only 7 visits out of 4979², but I was surprised to see it come out ahead.

According to NetMarketShare, Internet Explorer has 62% of the internet browser market share, while Firefox has only 24%. I'm a big fan of Firefox myself,³ and I'm delighted to see that visitors to this site have better taste in browsers than the average Internet denizen.