The Infoweek statistics are totally skewed. The reason why they're skewed is that they are collected by a company called Net Applications... and Net Applications collects the stats only from THEIR customers who use the Net Applications HitsLink tool on their small-business e-commerce websites, to track and analyze traffic.
Therefore, these browser/OS stats are only being collected from people who shop via e-commerce from small/medium businesses that happen coincidentally to use the HitsLink software on their web sites.
That's a pretty crappy way to sample the "Internet" in terms of real users. In fact, in my opinion the targeted sample pool is completely inappropriate for getting an idea of real-world industry-wide market share, so the numeric results in general shouldn't be considered significant. If this thing has less than a 6-7% margin of real-world error, I'd be very surprised.
Therefore, these browser/OS stats are only being collected from people who shop via e-commerce from small/medium businesses that happen coincidentally to use the HitsLink software on their web sites.
That's a pretty crappy way to sample the "Internet" in terms of real users. In fact, in my opinion the targeted sample pool is completely inappropriate for getting an idea of real-world industry-wide market share, so the numeric results in general shouldn't be considered significant. If this thing has less than a 6-7% margin of real-world error, I'd be very surprised.
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