Web Browsers

Web browsers statistics

The internet community uses several operating systems, system configuration and several browsers. 

Here are some statistics in May 2006 of the sunilcare group.

Why do you need to test your site with several browser?

The internet community uses several browsers but... all the browsers do not display the pages the same way. It is therefore of the upmost importance that you test your site with various browsers. Ideally we should also test your site with various releases of the same browsers.

Here is a table with the most popular browsers

Browser Name	Browser Market share (within the sunilcare group)	Comments
	61%	Internet Explorer Introduced in 1995, Internet Explorer (IE) is presently the most popular Web browser but it looses market share... <more>
	26%	Firefox Firefox is a free, open-source web browser for Windows, Linux and Mac. Launched in 2004, it has become the most popular alternative to ie... <more>
	4%	Netscape Netscape was the first commercial Internet browser introduced in 1994. Netscape gradually lost its popularity and is now the third most popular browser... <more>.
	1%	Opera The Opera free Web browser is a high-quality, multi-platform product for a wide range of platforms and operating systems. The market share of this browsers will certainly increase in the near future... <more>
	1.5%	Safari Safari is the Apple browser...exclusively for the Mac operating system.... <more>