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Safari Hits 6.25% Market Share

Posted by Maciej Stachowiak on Saturday, May 31st, 2008 at 9:04 pm

The latest browser market share data is in, and Safari has hit 6.25%, breaking 6% for the first time. Last month’s share was 5.81%, so this is a significant increase. It was only nine months ago that Safari broke 5%. Safari market share has now almost tripled from 2.14% in June 2005, when the WebKit Open Source project launched.

This growth, combined with recent WebKit adoption in projects such as the Iris Browser, Qt 4.4, Android, Adobe AIR, Epiphany, KDE Plasma, iCab and more, is breathtaking and shows huge positive momentum for the WebKit project. Thanks and congratulations to everyone who has contributed to the project.

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11 Responses to “Safari Hits 6.25% Market Share”

  1. koavf Says:
    May 31st, 2008 at 9:21 pm

    Your first link directs the reader back to this post. Do you have a source for your numbers?

    -JAK

  2. Maciej Stachowiak Says:
    May 31st, 2008 at 9:58 pm

    @koavf

    I made the link wrong, now fixed.

  3. Spot Says:
    June 1st, 2008 at 10:29 am

    Don’t forget the webkit use in Shiira lives on in Demeter

  4. schrep Says:
    June 2nd, 2008 at 11:07 am

    Congrats guys! With Safari, Opera, and Firefox together at > 25% we can hopefully move the web forward much faster!

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    June 2nd, 2008 at 12:23 pm

    [...] on the gains, Apple programmer Maciej Stachowiak pointed to new adoptions for Webkit on the Surfin’ Safari blog: This growth, combined with recent WebKit adoption in projects [...]

  6. jeffr Says:
    June 2nd, 2008 at 1:44 pm

    This is excellent. It would also be interesting to see the increase in contributions to webkit to see how the team is evolving as well.

  7. frobnutz Says:
    June 2nd, 2008 at 5:05 pm

    Awesome! Very nice work. Does this include Safari on the iPhone?
    [I'm planning to use it more as soon as I can figure out what I need to
    change in order to recompile it with session-only cookies.]

  8. A Nonny Moose Says:
    June 17th, 2008 at 2:46 am

    I wonder how many of these are people who “accidentally” downloaded it when iTunes/Quicktime offered it as an “upgrade.”

  9. Mark Rowe Says:
    June 17th, 2008 at 9:45 am

    @A Nonny Moose: Very few. Market share measures *usage* and not installation.

  10. A Nonny Moose Says:
    June 17th, 2008 at 6:36 pm

    >>Market share measures *usage* and not installation.<<
    Good point.

  11. randallfarmer Says:
    July 3rd, 2008 at 1:48 pm

    Another angle on this: 27% of Web users are off of Internet Explorer. Can only mean good things for Web standards (and bad things for incompatible, one-browser-only content).