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Browser Market Share Report for 2022 Q4

These reports are produced quarterly and each covers a group of search engines broke down by client location and operating system. The strategy we use relies on parsing the user agent we see when we get an HTTP/S request.

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Cloudflare Data Insights Team
May 11, 2023
  • Browser

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Methodology

The goal of this report is to determine the browsers' market share of the most common Internet browsers.

Cloudflare accelerates and protects traffic for large parts of the Internet, with a global network that spans more than 200 cities in over 100 countries. Approximately 25 million Internet properties rely on Cloudflare's network to reach their audiences. More than 10% of all websites connect through our reverse proxy, including 17% of the Fortune 1000.

Due to the size of our network we are in a unique position to measure statistically relevant market share data.

Our methodology uses the user-agent header parsed using ua-parser v0.16.1 in combination with a proprietary parser. In Radar page only proprietary parser is currently being used and thus the results may differ.

Procedure

  • We store traffic metadata to orange clouded websites (websites that proxy their requests through our platform). Every 1/100th request to orange clouded websites is logged in our databases.
  • We take the top 7 browsers for each combination (country, operating system, country and operating system) and any browser that makes it to the top 7 will be included in Global Market Share.
  • We only consider requests from websites that used Cloudflare over the entirety of the report time window to avoid bias from the sample of websites changing.

User-agent browser mappings

  • Chromium is excluded as its codebase is used by many other browsers.
  • WebViews are excluded. Both Chrome Mobile WebView and Mobile Safari UI/WKWebView make up a big portion of the data and such requests are being excluded.

What OS are we looking into

This report take into account only the following operation systems:

  • iOS
  • Android
  • Desktop (Windows, MacOSX, Linux, ChromeOS)
  • Mobile (WebOS, WindowsPhone, Blackberry, SmartTV, Nintendo, Xbox, Playstation, Kindle, Android, iOS)

Anything that is not identifiable as being into one of those categories is excluded.

Click here to download the report data as CSV files.

Global Market Share

Market Share by Country

Market Share by OS

Market Share by Country and OS