Browser Statistics

From Apr 20, 2003 to Jan 30, 2026				Since 01/01/2024
MSIE 4	Trident	282	0.04 %	0	0.00 %
MSIE 5	Trident	7015	0.89 %	19	0.16 %
MSIE 5.5	Trident	6404	0.81 %	0	0.00 %
MSIE 6	Trident	171875	21.68 %	26	0.22 %
MSIE 7	Trident	44969	5.67 %	34	0.29 %
MSIE 8	Trident	10005	1.26 %	28	0.24 %
MSIE 9	Trident	6438	0.81 %	19	0.16 %
MSIE 10	Trident	1334	0.17 %	8	0.07 %
MSIE 11	Trident	5061	0.64 %	10	0.08 %
Spartan / Edge	KHTML / WebKit	3743	0.47 %	749	6.35 %
Mozilla 3	Gecko	1085	0.14 %	0	0.00 %
Mozilla 4	Gecko	3410	0.43 %	1	0.01 %
Netscape 4	Gecko	1355	0.17 %	0	0.00 %
Netscape 6	Gecko	126	0.02 %	0	0.00 %
Netscape 7	Gecko	1958	0.25 %	0	0.00 %
Netscape 8 | 9 Firefox	Gecko	389	0.05 %	1	0.01 %
Camino	Gecko	346	0.04 %	0	0.00 %
Galeon	Gecko	242	0.03 %	0	0.00 %
Firefox	Gecko	246851	31.14 %	1721	14.59 %
Mozilla 5	Gecko	15089	1.90 %	21	0.18 %
Opera 6	Presto	368	0.05 %	1	0.01 %
Opera 7	Presto	3324	0.42 %	0	0.00 %
Opera 8	Presto	2558	0.32 %	42	0.36 %
Opera 9	Presto	5685	0.72 %	1	0.01 %
Opera 10	Presto	2018	0.25 %	16	0.14 %
Opera 11	Presto	1224	0.15 %	13	0.11 %
Opera 12	Presto	3138	0.40 %	11	0.09 %
Opera next	KHTML / WebKit	7992	1.01 %	406	3.44 %
Konqueror	KHTML	1649	0.21 %	7	0.06 %
Safari / Chrome / Chromium	KHTML / WebKit	148075	18.68 %	7467	63.30 %
Lynx / ELinks / w3m		291	0.04 %	0	0.00 %
WAP Browser		9896	1.25 %	1196	10.14 %
Inconnus / Unknown / not set		80000	10.09 %	0	0.00 %

What do these statistics mean?

They have been extracted from $HTTP_USER_AGENT with PHP 3 or getenv("HTTP_USER_AGENT") with PHP 4.
First, robots are excluded. I'm excluded too.
Even if a visitor reads a few pages he is counted once except if he comes back after more than 10 minutes or if his provider changes his IP address. It seems that AOL and big companies change the IP address when he is idle for a few seconds.
The browser is identified before any generation of a page, but only the first identifier given will be counted.

"Unknown" means rare browsers such as Dillo, AmigaVoyager, iCab, XBrowser or java browsers, robots or utilities such as Wget, HLoader, HTML2JPG, Webcow, Webcopier, MSProxy, Custo or Webpix and the ones that do not identify (paranoia, pseudo-anonymity, fake Googlebot, robot or malicious intent?).

The pages may not be adapted to their browser.

Opera, because it allows you to change the identifier but lets its name, is the first to be extracted, then Netscape (6 / 7), MSIE and Mozilla (3-mostly proxies- / 4 -forged UA or proxies most of the time- or 5) compatible browsers.
Beonex Communicator, K-Meleon, Chimera and Mozilla (SeaMonkey) are considered as Mozilla 5, except when they send a fake identifier.
Netscape 4 -fake UA most of the time- is spotted thanks to the following Regular Expression:

preg_match("#Mozilla/4\.[0-9]{1,2} \[[a-z]{2}\]#",$UserAgent)

The following string in a Perl Compatible Regular Expression allows most WAP browser detection:

/wap[ -]|windows ce|palm[os-\d]|pda;|up\.br|\/cldc|midp|symbian[ \/o]|ericsson|
portalmmm|nokia|BlackBerry|PANTECH|\bcdm\b|\bvirtual\b|^lge?[\/-]|
Klondike|pocketPC|Obigo|ACS\-NetFront|series60|Vodafone|Mobile|
DoCoMo\/|^HTC\-|HTC_|SGH\-i/i

Netscape 4 User Agent is mostly used by link checkers and MSIE 5.0 User Agent by robots (mostly to spam log files).

IE 6 User Agent is often used by link checkers, safe searching tools and robots.

When connecting to the site works fine, an automatic update of the statistics with MySQL does not slow down browsing. Thus I verify this list from time to time: when I add or modify a page or when a new nationality is added.

Browser statistics depend on the site and Google Analytics stats offer an interesting view.

Browser Detection with PHP

This page has been generated for your "User Agent" :
Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; ClaudeBot/1.0; +claudebot@anthropic.com)
Thus: ?a robot
This page won't give the same results with another identifier.

Here is a PHP 3 script (not optimised and without regular expression) allowing you to find in $nav which is the browser loading a page:
// $browser_id = array ("opera 5", "opera/5", "opera 6", "opera/6", "opera 7", "opera/7", "netscape/7", "netscape/6", "netscape6", "konqueror", "galeon", "safari", "camino", "firefox", "firebird", "phoenix", "msie 6", "msie 5.5", "ie 5.5", "internet explorer 5.5", "msie 5", "msie 4", "mozilla/5", "mozilla/4", "mozilla/3", "avant browser", "internet explorer/6", "internet explorer 6"); $brow = strtolower($HTTP_USER_AGENT); $n=0; do { $b = strchr($brow,$browser_id[$n]); $n=$n+1; }while ((!$b) && ($n<count($browser_id))); $nav="other"; if ($b) { $nav=str_replace("/","_",$browser_id[$n-1]); $nav=str_replace(" ","_",$nav); switch ($nav) { case "netscape6" : $nav="netscape_6";break; case "phoenix" : $nav="firefox";break; case "firebird" : $nav="firefox";break; case "ie_5.5" : $nav="msie_5.5";break; case "internet_explorer_5.5" : $nav="msie_5.5";break; case "internet_explorer_6" : $nav="msie_6";break; case "avant_browser" : $nav="msie_6";break; } } //If $nav is different from other, its value will be opera_5, opera_6, ... , msie_6, msie_5.5, ... //this result (field name of the table browsers) allows the update: //first connect to the server //$server=mysql_connect("your host","your user name","your password"); //$base=mysql_select_db("your data base",$server); //here is the update script $result=mysql_query ("SELECT `$nav` FROM `browsers`"); if ($result!=0) { $res=mysql_fetch_row ($result); //get old value $res[0]++; //add 1 $result=mysql_query ("UPDATE `browsers` SET `$nav`=$res[0]"); //update } //...

To consult a list of user agents:

• of this site:
• browsers 11373 UA
• robots 1067 UA
• others 1901 UA
• recent 3566 UA
• or download for offline browsing
• or
• Registered Web Browsers
• Browser ID (User-Agent) Strings
• or
• List of User-Agents (Spiders, Robots, Crawler, Browser) A-F
• List of User-Agents (Spiders, Robots, Crawler, Browser) G-L ...
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• If you look for better browser detection scripts:
• The css-discuss Wiki
• techpatterns php
• techpatterns javascript