Firefox Rebounds, Netscape and Safari Enjoy Small Gain — All at the Expense of Internet Explorer; NetApplications Releases August 2005 Browser Stats

Business Wire, Sept 14, 2005

ALISO VIEJO, Calif. -- NetApplications, a provider of Web-based applications that measure, monitor and market Web sites for the Small to Medium Enterprise (SME), today announced through its monthly Web site traffic analysis that Firefox is back on the rise, jumping up a quarter point in August 2005. Netscape and Safari also enjoyed a modest bump in overall usage. These gains chip away at Internet Explorer's dominant market share. E[acute accent]In August 2005, Microsoft's Internet Explorer continued its slow, yet steady decline in browser usage market share. IE enjoyed 92.31% market share in October of 2004, but is currently at 86.31%. Firefox attempted to regain its momentum with a modest increase in share from the previous month, and Safari maintained its slow, yet steady gains, improving to 2.20%. Meanwhile, Netscape abruptly stopped its steady market share loss and posted the biggest share gain during August, up from 1.50% to 2.02%. E[acute accent]"Firefox isn't the only interesting story in August, with Safari and Netscape on the rise, Internet Explorer faced an offensive on three separate fronts," noted Phil Vizzaccaro, CEO of NetApplications. "While Firefox rebounded after its small decline in July and Safari enjoyed a modest tenth of a percent gain, August was Netscape's month to shine earning just over a half percent. The Mozilla Foundation also recently announced the availability of its new Firefox 1.5 Beta."

E[acute accent]August Browser/Market Share:

E[acute accent]Microsoft Internet Explorer -- 86.31%

E[acute accent]Firefox -- 8.27%

E[acute accent]Safari -- 2.20%

E[acute accent]Netscape -- 2.02%

E[acute accent]Opera -- 0.62%

E[acute accent]Mozilla -- 0.51%

E[acute accent]Other -- 0.08%

E[acute accent]Additional stats are available at http://marketshare.hitslink.com . E[acute accent]HitsLink(TM) is Net Applications' flagship product providing advanced website statistics and analysis for webmasters and eMarketers alike. The data has been collected from over 40,000 Hitslink.com-monitored global Web sites. Please feel free to use this data in your reports or articles, simply source it as, "Data for this article was compiled from global traffic statistics from Web sites tracked by NetApplications' HitsLink.com." E[acute accent]The HitsLink Enterprise Service starts at $14.95 per monthly subscription. A free trial is available at www.HitsLink.com/trial.> E[acute accent]About NetApplications

E[acute accent]Since 1999 NetApplications has been a leading source of tools and utilities for webmasters and eMarketers for small to medium enterprise (SME). The company has a complete suite of simple and affordable subscription-based applications that are designed to help users have greater success with their Web site marketing efforts. Headquartered in Aliso Viejo, California, NetApplications distributes its services through over 3,000 partners and affiliates. These services may also be found at www.netapplications.com, www.hitslink.com, www.submitter.net, www.publishplus.com, www.1stwarning.com and www.toolshack.com.