I thought that rather than just doing what I do each month and tell you what the stats are for browser usage to my site in September I would do something a little different and show you what the stats are for the last four months so that we can all get a real feel for what is happening to the various browsers.

As we can see Safari is currently the most popular browser on my site is Safari who while their share has fallen in the last month from a high of 38.85% in August have managed to consolidate their position as the browser of choice for users of my site.

IE seems to be falling rapidly having seen its market share drop by a third in the last four months. It will be interesting to see if the release of the Beta version of IE 9 has an impact or not in October. For although a lot of you tech savvy readers have long since ditched IE there have been some pretty good reviews of IE 9 doing the rounds so let’s see if some of you decide to give the old lady another whirl.

Now if the two most popular browsers have both dropped last month that must mean that there have also been some climbers as well. The two browsers that have made major in roads into my browser share are Firefox and Chrome.

Firefox is up to 26.32%, the highest it has been in the last four months up from 17.27% in August, which was the lowest Firefox has been in the last four months. Meanwhile Chrome, the search engine of choice for Gogglers, is still jumping about like somebody who has sat on a cactus. At 10.53% it is just short of its highest total of 11.00% in July. However it has also been as low as 1.61% and 2.88% in June and August respectively. The rest are all fairly insignificant in comparison to these four.

So what can we deduce from all of this? Well as with just about every other set of browser stats IE is in decline. Firefox and Chrome seem to threaten to take over but never actually do. Chrome has been bubbling between 5 – 10% for most of this year with promises from various sources that it is really going to take off in the next couple of months but never does. Firefox seems to gain about a quarter of the market share regularly but again can never seem to get higher.

The surprise to me is how many Apple Fanboys there must be visiting my site. I am not one of Apples greatest fans. I think that the iPhone is a fantastic smartphone, but I have never been really tempted with any of their other products, I guess that must be the programmer in me. However, Safari is now the browser of choice for you guys.

Keep up the good work!