Methodology

The goal here is to determine the browsers' market share of general.

We estimate that around 16% of global internet traffic goes directly through Cloudflare, so we consider that we are in a relatively unique position to measure statistically relevant market share data.

Our methodology uses the user-agent header parsed using mainly 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 are different.

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 5 browsers for each combination (country, operating system, country and operating system) and the browsers that make it to the top 5 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.

Notes

• Unlike other methodologies, this one is not thwarted by ad or tracker blockers or other browser extensions that block analytic requests from third parties because Cloudflare is a first party in these instances, seeing the direct request to the website.
• This methodology assumes that the 16% of traffic Cloudflare sees is representative of the whole in terms of link clicks from general search engines, which seems appropriate given the wide breadth of our customer base (many different types of websites use Cloudflare).
• This methodology relies on the browsers identifying themselves through the user-agent along with the operating system that is used.
• The higher the volume of data the more reliable this methodology becomes.

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 huge chunk of the data and such requests are being excluded. Follows the inclusion* list of browser user-agents:

{
    'Chrome': ['Chrome Mobile', 'Chrome Mobile iOS', 'Chrome'],
    'Edge': ['Edge Mobile', 'Edge', 'IE', 'IE Mobile'],
    'Opera': ['Opera Mobile', 'Opera Mini', 'Opera Tablet', 'Opera'],
    'Firefox': ['Firefox Mobile', 'Firefox iOS', 'Firefox', 'Firefox Beta', 'Firefox Alpha', 'Firefox (Namoroka)', 'Firefox (Shiretoko)'],
    'Safari': ['Mobile Safari', 'Safari'],
    'Samsung Internet': ['Samsung Internet'],
    'UC Browser': ['UC Browser'],
    'QQ Browser': ['QQ Browser Mobile', 'QQ Browser', 'QQ Browser Mini'],
    'DuckDuckGo': ['DuckDuckGo Mobile', 'DuckDuckGo'],
    'Coc Coc': ['Coc Coc'],
    'Miui Browser': ['MiuiBrowser'],
    'Yandex Browser': ['Yandex Browser'],
    'Vivaldi': ['Vivaldi'],
    'Sogou Explorer': ['Sogou Explorer'],
    'Puffin': ['Puffin', 'PuffinLite'],
    'webOS': ['webOS Browser']
}

• Not all these browsers will show up in the report the reason being that not all make part of the top 5 browsers for the breakdowns we support (country, OS, country and OS).

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