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52.84%
52.84% -- browser market share for Internet Explorer (2012-02)
All versions of Internet Explorer accounted for 52.84 percent of desktop browser share in February 2012 according to Net Applications.
- Data spans sites using Net Applications live stats services which may not be representative of the web as a whole
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Value
52.84%
Unit
Percentage
Data Vintage
2012-02
Entity
Sample Size
160,000,000
Evidence Quality
B
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Score breakdown
Extraction
75
Source Trust
60
Citation Chain
60
Independence
30
Methodology
45
Freshness
95
Source
Net Applications
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Tier B
https://www.olympusweb.com/chrome-still-trying-to-catch-firefox/ ↗
Source Article
Chrome still trying to catch Firefox - Olympus Web
Chrome still trying to catch Firefox
- March 04, 2012
- Bradley Taylor
At the end of 2011, it looked like Chrome had knocked Firefox from the number-two spot in Web browser rankings — but it’s starting to look like that title might have been a little premature. According to Net Applications’ Net Mar…
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Net Applications
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Methodology
Net Applications Net MarketShare data from ~160 million monthly visitors; range noted: down 0.12 points since January 2012
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Trend Over Time
| Period | Value | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2007 | 64% | |
| 2008-07 | 68.5% | +7.0% |
| 2009-08 | 66.97% | -2.2% |
| 2010 | 52.7% | -21.3% |
| 2010-08 | 60.4% | +14.6% |
| 2011 | 24.3% | -59.8% |
| 2011 | 51% | +109.9% |
| 2011-02 | 46% | -9.8% |
| 2011-08 | 40.9% | -11.1% |
| 2011-10 | 52% | +27.1% |
| 2011-11 | 50.66% | -2.6% |
| 2011-11 | 40.63% | -19.8% |
| 2012 | 40% | -1.6% |
| 2012-02 (current) | 52.84% | +32.1% |
| 2014 | 41.3% | -21.8% |
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Industrymarketing
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Internet Explorer: 52.84% browser market share. Source: Net Applications (2012-02). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/ie-desktop-browser-share-feb-2012
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