Opera desktop browser has biggest gains out of all other major browsers in month of June
Published July 2nd, 2007 12:57 PM EDT By Daniel Goldman
With an increase of more than 22% in the browser market share, the Opera desktop browser experienced the biggest gains out of all major browsers for the month of June, according to NetApplications.
Opera jumped from 0.74% in the month of May to 0.91% in June. With this increase, Opera is now more widely used than Netscape, which dropped 6% to 0.78%.
Firefox remained relatively unchanged at 14.55%, while Internet Explorer (IE) had a slight increase to 78.84%. Safari, meanwhile, lost 6% of its market share in the month of June.
And as I mentioned in my previous post, Opera Mini increased its market share by more than 30% to 0.21% of the total market share, including desktop browsers.
Winners:
- Opera Mini: + 31.25%
- Opera (desktop): + 22.97%
- Internet Explorer: + 0.22%
- Firefox: + 0.07%
Losers:
- Safari: - 6.85%
- Mozilla: - 6.67%
- Netscape: - 6.02%
Thanks to all those at Choose Opera who helped spread the word.
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That’s good, and that’s only the beginning I guess
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last year jon the boss told our competitor was firefox, but we are still “quite” far from it. we are waiting to reach the 1% (and hopefully we are rather near, need another 10%):are there any plans to do a advertisement campaign or something that reach many people?
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Slowly but surely we’re getting there - a bigger market share. But compared to the ‘big hitter’ IE it’s still peanuts, of course. More’s the pity… But still - good news!
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This is very unexpected. With Apple opening up Safari for the Windows platform, I would have expected Safari to be the biggest gainer for the month of June. Perhaps these are stats from the month of May, collated in June? Good to see Opera doing so well, though.
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“That’s good, and that’s only the beginning I guess :)”
Yep, Opera is conquering the world, one part per million at a time
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The world domination is proceeding as planned.
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I wonder what will happen first: Opera desktop reaching 1,5% or Opera Mini passing Opera desktop.
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Desktop?
Look at the Wii stats in OS
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minisu: Most likely Opera Mini masking itself as Opera Desktop joining forces to reach 1,5%
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Are there any numbers how much of those Opera browsers are from Wii or DS? (After all, they are showing PSP and PS3, why not Wii and DS?)
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@Steve Barker: thanks for pointing this out! So the increase we see is almost entirely due to the Wii version of Opera.
Which is no surprise to me: I use it a lot!
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Just today OneStat also released their statistics for June 2007. They’re a bit different from NetApplications’ figures and unfortunately don’t show OS/platform/version information.
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It’s good to see that Opera is gaining some market share.
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Just Great.
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kestrel isn’t released yet
let’s wait to see the change it will do
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If I had your ability to jump to conclusions, I’d put on a mask and fight crime.
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Huh? That’s simple math:
Opera May: 0,74%
Opera June: 0,91%
Wii May: 0,01%
Wii June: 0,17
Difference for Opera: 0,17%
Difference for Wii: 0,16%
How’s that “jumping to conclusions”, again?
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Are these numbers for US sites? Because they differ quite a lot from stats I’ve seen from european sites earlier.
Does anyone know the stats for Europe?
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@Schmivacy:
I don’t want to comment on you being right or wrong here, but that must be the funniest thing written in a long time. It even surpassed this mail in the WHATWG group.
@Article:
I am wondering how much influence Opera Mini Beta and Wii had on this gain. No matter what happens on Operas “other fronts”, will in theory rub off and make Opera Desktop reach a wider audience.
- ØØ -
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Actually, Opera share passed the 1% mark for the very first time :hat:
As for the individual platforms, OM usage is growing fast, now 0,21%. But what about desktop, mobile, Wii and devices. I understand they are included in the 0,91%… Daniel, got a split of that share to share … ???
(Btw. seems like OS Nintendo Wii is a *new* stat entry in June ?)
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Think harder, and you’ll know why your calculations don’t make sense.
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OK, I really don’t want to get drawn into some useless comment discussion, so if you don’t have anything to add with a little bit more substance, I’m done here.
It’s not like there’s any other browser on the Wii available. I’m sorry if you don’t like this fact (which I don’t understand, BTW, I think it’s a great success for Opera, especially as they earn money from the Wii browser!), but it’s simple arithmetics.
Thinking about it a little bit more, the biggest gain in June had the Opera Wii Browser!
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The huge difference in showings between NetApplications and OneStat futher highlights the fact that browser usage statistics are extremely unreliable. The choice of browser varies sometimes dramatically depending on the site you’re visiting. For example, techie site are likely to have visitiors of alternative browsers.
As for the Wii, I didn’t at first notice its ranking in the OS section. Opera’s good showing this month could very well be attributed to the Wii. Our hope is that the Wii will further attract them to Opera on the desktop and mobile.
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that would be a good decision, we can also convince other opera fans to make a team of crime fighters
guys, those are just statics built either by counting (polls or reading user’s browser identification) or by prediction.
for polls, most ie users choose live in peace without caring about all this stuff, also that depends on whome come over this page
for browser identification, many opera, konqueror, and other browsers users identify their browsers as internet explorer or firefox to bypass some site’s racist browser check
for predections, that’s very vague, i can say 4-5% using opera, but of course i am not serious enough because i am not involved into the market
here is another statistics from w3schools, they didn’t yet release june statistics, but for march, april, may opera remains 1.6% of total marketshare, that’s far better than hitslink statistics, but there is no increase by the time !
also not the part of “Statistics Are Often Misleading” on the same page.
though, i still agree with the idea of crime-fighting teams, but whome design the mask has to ensure its standard compatibility
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exactly, may be that’s why w3schools statistics hav higher percentage for opera, also even after june statistics will be released wii will not make notable change in their statistics, but i am still sure the first previews of kestrel will make at least a slight change, but may be in july
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Holger Dors, facts are nice. Especially if you leave out crucial facts that do not support your conclusion…
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Indeed techical sites use a higher % of alternative browsers.
Looking at tweakers.net I see stand at 3.20% on sesions(log in) and 5,68% on hits.
Firefox is there even bigger on the total hits than IE
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Schmivacy, I’d strongly suggest a political career for you: I predict you’ll be a huge success!
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Opera has so many advantages, especially concerning usability (3 common apps into 1 w/ RSS, email and browsing) and security, that I find mind blowing that it doesn’t have a higher share of the market — if only with corporate users. Cost has no longer been an argument for the past few years… I want at least 10% market share for Opera. How can it be done?
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The Opera stock is going trough the roof too!
http://www.hegnar.no/kurser/ticker.asp?paper=opera
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@Schmivacy: rather than simply claiming the logic is faulty, and leaving the reasons as an exercise for the reader, would you care to enlighten us as to which “crucial facts” might be missing?
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A very good news. Opera start to reach the success deserve.
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increase from 1 to 2 is a 100% increase, increase from 100 to 150 is only 50% increase. percents lie, or better - tell what you want to tell.
fact is, that opera market share is unimportant, and if it were no Wii browser opera would have been put into “other browsers category” soon.
thats all because of past (and present unfortunately) issues with corporate networks, NTLM loging, socks support etc. you cant expect corporate users to use opera if you dont provide them ways to do it. implementing widgets that noone uses seriously instead of RELIABLE ntlm support was, from salesman position, a disaster. same as long standing issues with js/ajax frameworks (and development tools, that arent there) - it doesnt matter whos fault it is, opera is loosing because of it, not them, so it is opera job to fix these issues before these frameworks start to actively block opera from working. now they just simply dont work properly
btw. in poland opera has about 7%, and is stagnangt, firefox has about 25 or so, and is still growing. why? because companies can use ff with their networks, opera doesnt work in mine, so i use ff and slowly start to use ff3alphas as my main browser. damn it is fast..
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While an incease always is good news, we must really watch the true market share percentages, which show an increase from 0,74 to 0,91%.
It doesn’t really mean anything that this is an increase of more than 20%.
Since the shares of FF and IE are much larger, it makes mathematically sense they cannot reach such kind of ‘increases’.
So, we should speak about an increase 0,17 percentage points. That’s more fair.
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Opera has had its own category for years. Sorry to burst your bubble.
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“Opera has had its own category for years. Sorry to burst your bubble.”
but nothing stops it from loosing it, if it is going to be under 1% mark for longer. iphone browser is going to beat that number before winter
truth, that hurts, is opera going free didnt bring marketshare increase i was hoping, same with version 9. firefox on the other hand..
it isnt that opera has bad press, it hasnt got any press at all.
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rather underwhelmed, you make very good points…
I was one of those waiting for the ‘brand new feature’ … hoping for more reliability fixes, something really useful…
And all we get is a very geeky thing, and the *removal* of a vital feature!!!
that aside, the ‘publicity department’ seems to be very insular… a ‘massive publicity campaign’ usually turns out to be a web only affair, opening an office somewhere, a fancy party somewhere, to be forgotten by the normal people mere weeks later…
Unlike FF, that got involved in very public, sometimes illegal promotions, It certainly did not damage it’s popularity!!
At this point, you will say, ‘open source!’ … nothing against it, but has anyone checked how teams of developers will be paid? a lot will say that FF is funded by commercial interests, not a very ‘open source’ method…
By being a ‘commercial product’, Opera gets a lot of sponsorship to pay a large programming team - and keeps its property private as well!!
The only fly in the ointment is that it has to actually get stuff working, instead of just producing ‘gadgets’… My biggest worry is that Opera cannot see the big picture - they have to spend a lot of this money they say they have, on **regular** adverts in popular magazines that *normal* people read, like Stuff, GadgetMag, the main ones beginners read!!
I think they are just too frightened to ‘raise their profile’ in the world outside the web, and cannot stand aggressive advertising that gets results..
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Under 1% marketshare is for U.S. only, mind you. Apple has ever been strong in the U.S. and Opera is *much* stronger in Europe. So, everybody, please, don’t make the mistake to think these statistics would reflect usage share on “the internets”. It’s the U.S., only one part of all internet users.
Greetings from a country with about 60% IE usage share (see, that’s where these statistics also fail),
wupperbayer
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What is this geeky thing, comnut, and what was removed?
Anyway…
Opera has been below 1 per cent for ages. Why would it suddenly be dropped from the statistics now? Especially when its market share is increasing. Sorry, but you are simply not making sense.
Um, Safari already has more users than Opera.
But it is increasing. Has been doing so since Firefox was released. Unless you listen to OneStat, of course. You know, the company which claims that startpagina.nl is the most visited site in the world…
Yeah, I know. New York Times, etc. don’t really matter.
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Speed Dial is for geeks only apparently
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“Opera has been below 1 per cent for ages. Why would it suddenly be dropped from the statistics now? Especially when its market share is increasing. Sorry, but you are simply not making sense.”
increasing.. problem is, that it is increasing slower than most other browsers. thus it isnt realy expanding, just keeping up, or loosing imo.
when opera desktop is going to have lower market share than mobile browser then you can simply scratch opera desktop from any statistics. it is going to be disgrace and death of opera desktop. 10 yrs of tradition, version 9.2 and beaten in few months by mobile browser? it isnt unrealistic..
“Um, Safari already has more users than Opera.”
it wanst so few years ago.. opera market share increased, but.. well, safari’s too, faster.
opera needs to, simply needs to do something about press
new york times? count how many ‘firefox’ is there, and how many times ‘opera’ and draw conclusions yourself. how many diggs opera stories have? 10? 20? how many firefox? 1000? when it was the last time someone put something about opera on /.[not counting 'new version']
fanboyism? yes, but it works..
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“problem is, that it is increasing slower than most other browsers. thus it isnt realy expanding, just keeping up, or loosing imo.”
If Opera’s market share is increasing, it is gaining users and keeping up. Not that this is relevant, since Opera won’t be removed from the statistics. You are just trying to save yourself from looking silly after making that statement earlier.
“when opera desktop is going to have lower market share than mobile browser then you can simply scratch opera desktop from any statistics.”
Your assumption does not hold water, since Opera has been part of statistics since it had even a fraction of the market share it has today. Opera is still the #4 according to Net Applications, and those stats even include browsers with 0.01 per cent market share. Why would they remove a browser with about 1 per cent market share while keeping browsers with 0.01 per cent market share?
And let’s not forget that the stats in Europe show Opera at up to 5-10 per cent market share.
“it is going to be disgrace and death of opera desktop.”
Wow! So not only will Opera be removed from the statistics despite its growith, but it is a disgrace, and Opera Software will suddenly ditch a quarter of their revenue!
In the first quarter of 2007, Opera Desktop made up 25 per cent of Opera Software’s revenue, and the revenue from the desktop version increased by more than 140 per cent compared to the first quarter of 2006.
A disgrace indeed…
“10 yrs of tradition, version 9.2 and beaten in few months by mobile browser? it isnt unrealistic..”
What mobile browser are you referring to? Mobile internet is expected to explode and overtake PCs within a few years. It is not at all surprising to see mobile browsers gaining market share.
You really need to quit it with the hyperbole or no one will take you seriously.
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“Um, Safari already has more users than Opera.” - and what if you take away the mac users???
about the geeky thing - They were pushing it like it was the best thing ever… and all we got was speed dial… If they had not pushed it sooo hard, it wouldnt be geeky… ie, not something that *everyone* wants, like a decent session manager, or even ‘ie style’ bookmarks….
but it is SD, and very limited in use as well…
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Take away the Mac users? I have no idea what you are talking about, sorry.
Judging by the feedback in the forums, Speed Dial is one of the most popular features ever. Rarely have you seen so many people praise a new feature. And it isn’t geeky, contrary to what you seem to believe. It’s a lot easier than sessions and bookmarks. Now, a session manager, that’s geeky!
I’m glad you aren’t the one deciding what’s “geeky” and what isn’t at Opera
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have a look here..
my.opera.com/community/forums/forum.dml?id=4
so you *only* use 9 bookmarks??
I think you may find the ’speedial’ forums contain many complaints and wishes for it to do a lot more, or how to disable it…
it may be ‘useful’ but only as useful as an ‘icon’ !! (
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Once again, especially to rather underwhelmed: This is valid for the United States only. The US have both: More Apple users than Europe and fewer Opera users than Europe. So please don’t say Safari has more users than Opera, unless you also say that this is the case in the US, not worldwide.
btw.: I’m now doing something to keep Windows 95 alive, look at my browser and OS
(No, I’m not using Win 95, I’m using XP. Opera 2.12 seem to use Windows 95 as its OS unless it’s NT 4)
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I think the point about apple users, is that their OS is far more stable than MS, If you are mainly surfing and using documents…
The trouble is, comparing Opera for Mac & and Opera for windows is like comparing ‘Apples & oranges’ !!
- It interacts with two *totally* different OSes…
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the joke on MS is, they thought the biggest competition would be Linux…
It looks more like the AppleMac now, lets hope they dont mess it up….
The problems with Safari for windows show how complex a windows install is..
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comnut, I honestly have no idea what you are talking about. Why are you linking to the Mac forum?
No, I don’t use nine bookmarks. What’s you point? Does that make Speed Dial more geeky?
You really need to make your comments coherent. You seem to be jumping from one point to the next, never quite getting your point across.
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well I dont think you know - you dont seem to have seen speedial either!!!
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I have seen Speed Dial. What is your point? I use it all the time.
Again, please try to make coherent points. Once more I have no idea what you are trying to say? Is your argument “Speed Dial is geeky because I say it is”?
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Yes… its a good indicator now…
(http://tokapi.blogspot.com/2007/06/opera-what.html)
I felt a little proud bcoz i’ve also promote Opera in my blog last month, although it is in Malay..
I hope that Opera will lead ahead in the browser competition bcoz its simply the fastest and the best!
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tokapi, it’s great that your helping promote Opera in Malay. Btw, the video you posted has been removed on YouTube; what was it about?
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Hi daniel.. the video is actually an animation showing how Opera owns IE and FF… its kinda funny u know.. ;P