Chapter 1: Which Browsers Should Your Website Support?

by Craig Buckler

The question "which browsers should my website/app support?" is often raised by clients and developers. The simple answer is a list of the top N mainstream applications. But has that policy become irrelevant?

What are the Most-used Browsers?

The top ten desktop browsers according to StatCounter for May 2017 were:

  1. Chrome — 59.37% market share
  2. Firefox — 12.76%
  3. Safari — 10.55%
  4. IE — 8.32%
  5. Edge — 3.42%
  6. Opera — 1.99%
  7. Android (tablet) — 1.24%
  8. Yandex Browser — 0.48%
  9. UC Browser — 0.41%
  10. Coc Coc — 0.33%

Mobile now accounts for 54.25% of all web use so we also need to examine the top ten phone browsers:

  1. Chrome — 49.23%
  2. Safari — 17.73%
  3. UC Browser — 15.89%
  4. Samsung Internet — 6.58% ...

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