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What is the best, most reliable web resource for browser market share?

What is the best, most reliable web resource for browser market share?

This is required to assess which browsers should be favored while building CSS and, more importantly, browser-exceptions.

For example, should I be buiding for FF3 or FF2, given that there slight rendering differences.

A: 

W3 Schools

Marked as wiki: please vote down if you think it's unreliable.

Jon B  2008-12-18 16:31:45
Thanks, but is missing the comparison between FF2 and FF3.
Gonçalo Veiga  2008-12-18 16:40:54
+6  A: 

W3 Counter

  1. Internet Explorer 7.0 30.44%
  2. Internet Explorer 6.0 28.13%
  3. Firefox 2.0 16.09%
  4. Firefox 3.0 12.28%
Robert S.  2008-12-18 16:41:16
+2  A: 

Your own weblogs.

Each website has different metrics based on the types of visitors it gets. Look at your own websites metrics and build accordingly.

Btw, I've found that the more technical the website, the bigger the FF market share ;)

Stephane Grenier  2008-12-18 16:49:03
True, but not possible if you haven't launched yet.
Jon B  2008-12-18 16:52:31
If someone is building a site to appeal to the masses, how are his own web logs going to help, especially if traffic is initially low?
Robert S.  2008-12-18 16:59:02
I concur, if it's your first iteration things are harder. In that case you'd want to developer for the top browsers (with versions). Which are they? I would assume that today it's IE 7 and FF3. After that you support as many browsers as your budget will allow. In either case that covers the majority
Stephane Grenier  2008-12-18 17:32:09
You assume incorrectly. FF2 has more share than FF3. See my answer.
Robert S.  2008-12-18 18:55:33
A: 

A relatively global site is Wikipedia.org. Here are their statistics: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_web_browsers

Rick Kierner  2010-03-11 20:44:36

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