The question: "which browsers should my website/app support?" is often raised by clients and developers. The simple answer is a list of the top N mainstream applications. But has that policy become irrelevant?
What are the Most-Used Browsers?
The top ten desktop browsers according to StatCounter for May 2017 are:
- Chrome -- 59.37% market share
- Firefox -- 12.76%
- Safari -- 10.55%
- IE -- 8.32%
- Edge -- 3.42%
- Opera -- 1.99%
- Android (tablet) -- 1.24%
- Yandex Browser -- 0.48%
- UC Browser -- 0.41%
- Coc Coc -- 0.33%
Mobile now accounts for 54.25% of all web use so we also need to examine the top ten phone browsers:
- Chrome -- 49.23%
- Safari -- 17.73%
- UC Browser -- 15.89%
- Samsung Internet -- 6.58%
- Opera -- 5.03%
- Android -- 3.75%
- IEMobile -- 0.68%
- BlackBerry -- 0.26%
- Edge -- 0.15%
- Nokia -- 0.12%
The worldwide statistics don't tell the whole story:
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by Craig Buckler via SitePoint