Where have all the IE6 users gone?
So here’s the current browser usage according to Stats Counter. It shows for the first time that a Firefox version has over taken an IE version, in particular Firefox 3 overtaking IE 6 with IE7 way out ahead at a pretty consistent 40% share.
The strange thing from this chart though is that the FF3 increase is exactly the inverse of the FF2 decrease which in itself is not strange as FF users seem to be quite loyal but no browser share has grown at the same rate that IE6 has declined (being that IE7 usage seems relatively flat) so if IE7 is constant, FF2 declining as FF3 increases at the same rate – then if IE6 is declining where are they going?
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From December 2008 up to now FF3 has gained at least 5%, but FF2 has only decreased about 2-2.5% in the same period, so Mozilla is still picking up some users from other browsers.
I’d say the other losses from IE6 (say 3% for the same period) have translated into new IE7 users for the most part, with some IE7 users then jumping ship to IE8 (Beta/RC), Firefox, Chrome and Opera.