{"id":665,"date":"2015-12-02T11:23:05","date_gmt":"2015-12-02T11:23:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hostingnotes.com\/?p=665"},"modified":"2017-09-20T11:45:44","modified_gmt":"2017-09-20T11:45:44","slug":"apple-mac-web-browser-stats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.webdevelopersnotes.com\/apple-mac-web-browser-stats","title":{"rendered":"Mac web browser stats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Unfortunately, even though Apple computers are supposedly better than their Windows brethren, they are used only by a small minority. Also, in contrast to the huge <a href=\"\/\/www.webdevelopersnotes.com\/browsers-for-windows\" title=\"Windows web browsers list\">list of Windows based web browsers<\/a>, there are just a few for the Macintosh system. This, however, makes it kind of easy to get some decent conclusions from the usage stats I&#8217;m about to present.<\/p>\n<p>By the way, the <strong>usage graphs for Apple Mac web browser are based on visitors to this web site<\/strong>. The stats for yours would probably be different. Though not in double digit percentage points, Mac users still form a sizeable visitor population on this site.<\/p>\n<div class=\"clr\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"bottom-ads\">\n<h4>Sponsored Links<\/h4>\n<script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script>\n<!-- Inner Page Top - Non Responsive -->\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\n     style=\"display:inline-block;width:336px;height:280px\"\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1043128618639037\"\n     data-ad-slot=\"5670477364\"><\/ins>\n<script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"clr\"><\/div>\n<h2>Usage and stats for Apple Mac web browsers<\/h2>\n<p>At the time of writing (July 2010), Apple&#8217;s Safari is the most used <a href=\"\/\/www.webdevelopersnotes.com\/list-of-browsers-for-macintosh-system\" title=\"List of web browser for the Mac\">web browser on Macs<\/a>. It&#8217;s been like this for exactly a year now; before that, the roost was being ruled by Firefox. I don&#8217;t think Apple is satisfied with the performance of Safari because its usage has kind of remained flat the past 2 years or so. Yes, the competition is definitely fierce.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/\/www.webdevelopersnotes.com\/articles\/mac-web-browser-usage-stats-2010-11-02.gif\" width=\"450\" height=\"316\" alt=\"Mac web browser stats - graph showing usage of Safari, Chrome, Firefox, Camino, Opera and Internet Explorer. Updated: 2010-11-02\" class=\"full-width\"\/><\/p>\n<p>As evident from the graph above, the increase in <a href=\"\/\/www.webdevelopersnotes.com\/chrome-usage-statistics\" title=\"Chrome usage and statistics\">usage of Chrome<\/a> is the only reason why Safari has over taken Firefox and has now come up to the top. As I&#8217;ve pointed out in several other articles and blog posts, Chrome has eaten into Firefox&#8217;s share on both Windows and Mac computers. So if Firefox has pulled down, naturally Safari has gone ahead.<\/p>\n<p>For a web browser that doesn&#8217;t come with the operating system and needs to be downloaded and installed from the web, Chrome has done a tremendous job of acquiring <em>a tad less than 10% of the Mac web browser usage pie<\/em>; and all that in a little more than a year&#8217;s time! Just goes to show that it is indeed the <a href=\"\/\/www.webdevelopersnotes.com\/best-web-browser\" title=\"Which is the best web browser in the world?\">best web browser<\/a>. FYI, Chrome is also available for Linux.<\/p>\n<p>As of now, the main fight is been Safari and Firefox which the latter is gradually losing much to the chagrin of its supporters. But I reckon there is a shift in loyalties taking place here. Firefox users are moving on to the <a href=\"\/\/www.webdevelopersnotes.com\/free-web-browser-google\" title=\"Chrome - Google's free web browser\">Google&#8217; free web browser<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>But will Chrome be able take Firefox&#8217;s place? Probably not! In the years to come, there are going to be three big players in the Mac web browser space &#8211; Safari will be at the top, followed by Chrome and Firefox. That&#8217;s simply my guess and may turn out to be incorrect. In fact, I would love to be proved wrong and would be very happy if Chrome, my favourite piece of software and probably the <a href=\"\/\/www.webdevelopersnotes.com\/fastest-web-browser\" title=\"Which is the fastest web browser in the world?\">fastest web browser<\/a>, gets the number one slot.<\/p>\n<p>Usage of other Mac web browsers is kind of minuscule and they don&#8217;t even stand a chance in this tussle. Opera and Camino, both good programs, have a devoted following so they will always figure in the usage stats though at a very low level. <a href=\"\/\/www.webdevelopersnotes.com\/internet-explorer-macintosh\" title=\"Usage of Internet Explorer on Macs\">Internet Explorer for Macintosh<\/a> was supposedly a neat browser but it&#8217;s development has been stopped &#8211; it&#8217;s actually been dead for many years now.<\/p>\n<p>You may also be interested in the following articles:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"withbullets\">\n<li><a href=\"\/\/www.webdevelopersnotes.com\/firefox-usage-statistics\" title=\"Firefox usage and statistics\">Firefox usage<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/\/www.webdevelopersnotes.com\/safari-web-browser-statistics\" title=\"Safari web browser usage statistics\">Safari usage<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Unfortunately, even though Apple computers are supposedly better than their Windows brethren, they are used only by a small minority. 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