Larry’s Log

Yeah it isn’t by much, but PCWorld is reporting that Mozilla based browsers have seen a full one percent gain in total market share.

Internet Explorer has held more than 95 percent of the browser market since June 2002, and until June had remained steady with about 95.7 percent of the browser market, according to WebSideStory’s measurements. Over the last month, however, its market share has slowly dropped from 95.73 percent on June 4 to 94.73 percent on July 6.

Now this means next to nothing to Microsoft, they can easily handle a one percent erosion but it means a 26% growth rate for Mozilla based browsers. If you are building webpages you need to keep an eye on these numbers. If you are building webpages geared toward IE you have just lost 1% of you audience.