OneStat.com today reported that Microsoft's Internet Explorer has a total global usage share of 95 percent. Microsoft's Internet Explorer continues to dominate the global browser market. The global usage share of Netscape is 3.0 percent and is the second most popular operating system in the world. Microsoft's IE 6 is currently the leading browser on the web. Microsoft's IE 6 global usage has increased with 5.3 percent from 52.3 percent to 57.6 percent. The global usage share of Netscape 7 has increased with 0.1 percent from 0.5 to 0.6 percent. Mozilla's global usage share is 1.1 percent and Opera 6 has a global usage of 0.8 percent.

Methodology: A global usage share of xx percent for browser Y means that xx percent of the visitors of Internet users arrived at sites that are using one of OneStat.com’s services by using browser Y. All numbers mentioned in the research are averages of last month and all measurements are normalised to the GMT timezone. The last research regarding global usage shares of browsers was published on September 30 2002. Research is based on a sample of 2 million visitors divided into 20,000 visitors of 100 countries each day.