One of the interesting things that graph shows is the IE market share on weekends vs weekdays. It is noticeably lower on weekends, but only by ~5 percentage points.<p>People often argue that corporations that require employees to use IE are boosting the browser's market share, but from these numbers, that effect seems small. The weekend market share should be a reasonably decent estimate of browser share without the "corporate effect".
I almost want to amend the title to read ...<p>Apple's Safari hits 10% browser market share on my sites.<p>or<p>Apple's Safari hits 10% browser market share. Results may vary, void where prohibited.
I don't believe 10% for Safari. My sites see nearly 7 million unique visitors a month and of that, almost 64% is IE (75% IE7, 23% IE6, and almost 2% IE8), about 26% Firefox (I forgot the breakdown but FF3 is almost all of it), and then you have Safari with 3% and Opera with nearly the same and then Chrome with about 1.5%. I just looked at these numbers for yesterday's traffic.<p>Our sites are not specific to Windows or Mac, the United States is our highest single geographic visitor but if you lump everyone else together then international traffic is higher than our domestic traffic.<p>Take it for what it's worth but I just don't think 10% is valid.
I think this shows the advantage that a default browser has on the two vendors' operating systems. Amazingly, over 20% of people bothered to download and install Firefox.<p>Mayhaps Ubuntu, The Google OS, and A Squeak-like OS based on Arc need to come pre-installed on new hardware each with their respective default browser.