Firefox took large share off Internet Explorer in 2007

ITwire brings up the latest figures from French based Internet traffic analyst XiTiMonitor showing that during 2007 Internet Explorer has lost a significant market share in favor of the open source browser Mozilla Firefox. This is great news and it completes the image of an Open Source 2007 year.

You can read the whole article which brings in splits by geographical area and all sorts of interesting data here.

Being curious about how stats are doing in my country, Romania I decided to attempt a small and perhaps insignificant analysis.

What I did:
I just took the December 2007 stats for the most visited website in Romania according to the most popular Romanian traffic ranking website and compared with stats from December 2007. The shift in the market share looks consistent here too:

Number of visitors:

• December 2006: 2.434.241
• December 2007: 3.115.951

Browser percentages december 2006:

• Internet Explorer 6.x - 59,48%
• Firefox 1.0 - 15,28%
• Mozilla - 8,83%
• Internet Explorer 7.x - 7,88%
• Opera - 7,22%
• Internet Explorer 5 - 0,88%
• Internet Explorer 5.5 - 0,24%
• Others - 0,18%

Browser percentages December 2008:

• Internet Explorer 6.x - 42,91%
• Firefox 2.0 - 28,52%
• Internet Explorer 7.x - 18,05%
• Opera - 6,75%
• Firefox 1.0 - 2,54%
• Mozilla - 0,43%
• Safari - 0,38%
• Internet Explorer 5 - 0,21%
• Internet Explorer 5.5 - 0,08%
• iPhone - 0,07%
• Others - 0,06%

Curiosity satisfied. Conclusion: 2007 was indeed a good year for open source and community based work.

Written by cdriga on January 29th, 2008 with no comments.
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