This month we can see some dramatic changes in the browsers that visitors to my site have used. There is no doubt who the real loser is this month and that is Safari. I’m not sure if I have done something to upset all the Apple Fanboys, though I have purchased an LG Optimus 7 which runs Windows Phone 7. However, as I did not purchase the new phone until about 2:30 this afternoon I doubt that this has had much effect.

IE having taken a bit of a nosedive last month has jumped back up to a very respectable 37.93%. This could in part be due to the release and good reports that the beta version of IE9 has been getting. In fact if we take September out of the equation then IE is holding steady around the 37% and is still the most popular browser on the site.

The browser that has really seen a jump this month is Chrome which has more than doubled its share from 10.53% in September up to 22.99% in October.

So now we have to talk about Safari, the browser that has taken top spot for the last two months has now plummeted into fourth place behind both IE, Chrome and Firefox. I really do mean it has plummeted too, last month Safari was riding the crest of a wave wiping out all comers with 30.26%, though this was down from its peak in August of 38.85%. This month Safari limped home with just 14.94%.

Firefox continues to be a rollercoaster ride down by almost 10 percentage points from 26.32% in September to 17.24% this month. It seems to hover between these two values on an almost monthly basis.

Obviously these figures are not representative of the web as a whole and it will be interesting to see what the values from people such as Comscore show up as.