Comments on: Opera desktop browser grew its number of users by 45% in the last 10 months

By: :-O

:-O — Tue, 25 Dec 2007 16:50:28 +0000

Net Applications has changed their methodology for their latest statistics.

Opera mini just dropped from 0.66% to 0.01% and Opera 9.x from 1.11% to 0.64%!!

By: x3

x3 — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 08:51:46 +0000

“Short of Google coming to the rescue”

They are already heavily involved. Don’t forget that they even pay people to get people to download Firefox.

By: WildEnte

WildEnte — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 03:57:41 +0000

I was more referring to “how do you collect those data”. is this the stuff you get through opera:config#UserPrefs|EnableUsageStatistics or through pings from Operas asking if updates are available?

And, while we’re at it, what’s going on with news about Opera for OLPC’s XO for average Joe?

By: Daniel Goldman

Daniel Goldman — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 03:38:14 +0000

WildEnte, you gotta join Opera for that. From time to time, hoever, we release some usage stats.

By: WildEnte

WildEnte — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 02:32:57 +0000

how do you get the internal usage statistics?

By: David Naylor

David Naylor — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 21:52:12 +0000

Hmmm… It will take ages until Firefox and the good browsers have 50% of the market. Short of Google coming to the rescue, I can’t see how we’ll get there before like… 2012? A true shame…

By: FataL

FataL — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 21:11:11 +0000

I used “good” stats. I logged in as you have suggested.

By: Daniel Goldman

Daniel Goldman — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 21:03:09 +0000

FataL, you’re using the erroneous stats from HitsLink. It’s not only the November stat, but the stats from previous months have also changed. I suggest you wait to update the charts until we sort things out with HitsLink.

By: FataL

FataL — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 21:00:05 +0000

Hey! I forgot that I can’t post pictures here.
Here are two links to charts:
http://files.myopera.com/FataL/files/hitslink-browsers-trend1.png
http://files.myopera.com/FataL/files/hitslink-browsers-trend2.png

I will update charts, so this post will show browsers trends up to date.
I also posted these charts in my blog.

By: FataL

FataL — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 20:54:25 +0000

Just created two charts from HitsLink data that show browsers trends:

On the first chart we can see a stable fall of IE. Yay! And release of IE7 doesn’t really help Microsoft. Also here we clearly see fast growth of Firefox and stable growth of Safari. You can hardly see Opera here in comparison to other 3 browsers, so I created 2nd chart that shows growth of non-IE browsers.

Here we can see that growth of Firefox is fast but not as stable as Safari’s. Netscape and Mozilla suite seems already a history — their small market share is slowly falling, recent releases of Netscape browser seems not help.
Opera hopefully will be “new Netscape of 2004″ in a year with market share of 2% or so — we can see pretty stable growth in last 10-12 months. Opera Mini grows fast and stable, so expect that it may outrun desktop version of Opera in a year or so.

By: DMXell

DMXell — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 17:48:10 +0000

Ah, whatever lol. I don’t like Mozilla and Netscape so I don’t follow their products much and ****.

By: Fyrd

Fyrd — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 17:43:52 +0000

Netscape Navigator 5, now that’s impressive. It never even existed!

The user agent string probably just starts with “Mozilla/5.0″ like many browsers. Doesn’t actually mean it uses any particular engine.

By: DMXell

DMXell — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 17:38:52 +0000

Oh, I use Safari for my browser lol. I’m posting this in my RSS reader (subscribed to Opera Watch), guess it uses the Netscape engine.

By: DMXell

DMXell — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 17:38:03 +0000

Awesome, over the 1% barrier. Sadly I’m not using it since it looks gastly in OS X (I could make it look better in Tiger, but in Leopard the new Aqua changes make it impossible to have Opera blend in; it’s like running Windows apps in Wine). I’ll always use it on Windows and Linux though.