Saturday, September 3, 2011

Safari dominates in mobile browsers - or not

Safari dominates in mobile browsers - or not

"Apple leads to the sudden market for mobile browser," wrote CNET on Thursday. The figures presented here, which provides analysis of the renowned service Netmarketshare take, impressively made, in fact, in January exceeded the IOS Safari World's first 50-percent mark, over which he holds constant the past three months. Opera slid within one year of almost a third to a fifth of the requests, increased to 15 percent of Android, Symbian is approaching from above the 5 percent mark.

A look at the data of the main rivals StatCounter but leaves doubts as to whether both services have generally measured the same. Opera remains the market leader there in spite of small losses, the growth is much stronger in Android, iPhone and iPod touch (there are shown separately) to bring it together in less than 20 percent and are extremely thin behind Google. Nokia's share is almost three times as large as for Netmarketshare, with BlackBerrys, the numbers differ by the factor of 4.

One reason for the differences: the iPad StatCounter apparently refers not to one which, although technically the iPhone is almost identical, but should be used mainly from the sofa. Fatal However, that analysis services are not particularly accurate. Already on desktop browsers, the numbers apart considerably. Mobile devices are responsible for only a fraction of the web page views (according to StatCounter currently exactly 7.12 percent), which obviously increases the distortion.

Another problem is the enormous differences between countries in terms of the dissemination and use of the equipment, an investigation of this web standard expert Peter-Paul Koch aka quirks mode hired on the basis of StatCounter data. Reliable data have only the browser manufacturers to guide the traffic through a proxy. Opera has shipped in July by its own account with its mini-browser 74 billion web pages, which are impressive two and a half times as much as a year earlier.

What remains to be robust conclusions, ie: the use of mobile browser world will be very strong - and analysis services to produce nice headlines, but ultimately have no idea.

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