Net Applications, the California-based analytics company puts Firefox at 9.9% percentage point of user share for the month of May, losing almost a quarter of its market share.
According to the analytics report, this is the first time Firefox has fallen below the 10% margin since November 2016, while Net Applications calculate browser share by the detection of user agent strings of the browsers that visit websites under its watch.
The tallies are make up the different visits to the site, which may be multiple sessions rather than just counting only users, it measures mostly the activity, though different from rival company's metrics sources which normally focuses on page views.
Mozilla's browser, Firefox had recorded more than a quarter of the world's browser share, about a decade ago. But lately, Firefox has fallen to less than a tenth, which trend may mean that Firefox will drop below 9% by September, and then even under 8% by January 2019.
Firefox future, indeed looks bleak if the six-month average holds, even as Mozilla has devoted resources in revamping the browser, giving rise to the "Quantum Firefox". Albeit, the revamp has not helped in salvaging the browser's hold on users.
Firefox, however isn't the only browser witnessing a decline, as even Apple's Safari also took a hit, losing almost three-tenths of a percentage point to finish at 3.7%, the lowest in a year.
While Internet Explorer (IE) and Edge, all Microsoft's browsers lost seven-tenths of a percentage point last month, closing at 16.1% for all visit sessions worldwide.
Google's browser, Chrome remains the undisputed leader with an impressive 1.2 percentage points gain in May alone, the largest one-month increase since January 2017; the user share pushed Chrome to finish at 62.8 per cent.
No comments