iOS now responsible for 2 percent of all web traffic

According to a report from NetApplications, Apple's iOS now has a 2 percent share of all web traffic. Combining for a worldwide average of 2.06 percent, the iPhone, iPad and iPod touch OS has passed the 2 percent mark for the first time ever and has even reached a whopping 10 percent market share in Singapore. The study also shows that the Mac OS kept steady at 5 percent while Windows maintained its solid lead at just under 90 percent of worldwide internet traffic.

With the iPad claiming .03 percent of all internet traffic just 10 short days after its launch last April, and estimates that it will represent 2.3 percent of total traffic in 2011, we can only speculate just how high iOS' share will be next time the report is released. Anyone care to guess?

[via electronista]

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gnicholls

That's 4x that of Android. Nice.

February 02 2011 at 3:41 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

James

Are you guys really excited about TWO percent... really TWO percent. Wow.

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Dan Woods

Considering that Mobile web traffic is miniscule compared to Desktop/Laptop Web Traffic, a Mobile Platform with 2% of *all* web traffic is *Huge*.

In markets without an significant Android presence, 5-10% of traffic being iOS means that Desktop Web Traffic is declining rapidly.

February 01 2011 at 11:22 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Beau

I'm sure it'd be a much higher percentage if the media intensity of desktops was scaled in comparison to mobile devices. So, if you were to put everything on an even scale with curves implemented, I think we'd see a much higher %. However, that being said, most of the time if someone has the option to sit down and watch videos they're going to do so on a desktop/laptop before they'd do it on a phone or iPad. - http://iphone.blogupdates.net/

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TIm

And what would you achieve by this "normalization"?

Scaling webtraffic based on media capabilities makes absolutely no sense.

T.

February 02 2011 at 3:32 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Dan Woods

2% is probably higher than most desktop browsers. If more people are using Mobile Safari than all versions of Opera, that's pretty damning.

It is to be expected though, IE is still the most common browser simply because it is the default on the most common platform.

February 01 2011 at 6:48 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

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mrtotes

I don't own any non-Apple
Hardware (never have yet) for accessing the web but if I check something online at work I have no choice but to add to the IE6 stats, although increasingly there's an app that can get the info more quickly for me.

I use one of our four Macs perhaps an hour or two a day, four or five days a week.

I use my iPhone perhaps three hours a day (long commute!)

But I use WinXP about 7 hours a day five days a week.

Am I a PC user or a Mac user? Whilst this is good news we must always be careful to understand the stats we're looking at.

February 02 2011 at 2:43 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

TIm

What difference does it make why you use the browser you are using? In the end you are using it and should be able to expect the websites you visit to work with it, which is ultimately why those statistics exist in the first place, so that web developers know where to put the right emphasis.

T.

February 02 2011 at 7:10 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

mattcutler

Right...

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