page_title: Usage share of web browsers
section_title: Net Applications (2004 Q4 to present)
hierarchical_section_title: Usage share of web browsers / Historical usage share / Net Applications (2004 Q4 to present)
context_page_description: The usage share of web browsers
  is the percentage of viewers at a group of websites who use a particular web browser. For example, when it is said that Internet Explorer has 7% usage share, it means that some version of Internet Explorer is used by nearly 7 of every 100 visitors who visit a given set of websites.
context_section_description: Netapplications bases its usage share mainly on the usage statistics of 40,000 websites having around 160 million unique visitors.
  On 2009-08-01, Net Applications began weighting its raw data based on the number of internet users in the countries concerned, using data from the CIA ; the changes were applied retroactively to older data. The table below uses weighted data from 2007 Q4 onwards.
caption: Usage share of web browsers history from 2004 Q4 to 2010 Q3 according to Net Applications.