What methodology is used to calculate the market share statistics?
StatCounter is a web analytics service. As of 1 August 2009, our tracking code is installed on approximately 3 million sites globally. (These sites cover various activities and geographic locations.) Every month, we record billions of hits to these sites. For each hit, we analyse the browser/operating system used and we summarize this data. For our search engine stats, we analyze every hit referred by a search engine. This is how we get our Global Stats information. We do not manipulate the data in any way. We do not collate it with any other information sources. No artificial weightings are used. We simply publish the data as we record it. In other words we calculate our Global Stats on the basis of more than 5 billion hits per month, by people from all over the world onto our 3 million member sites. By collating our data in this way, we track the activity of third party visitors to our member websites. We do not calculate our stats based on the activity of our members. This helps to
