iPhone web use booming

Stephen Withers
Wednesday, 19 March 2008 03:10

Your IT - Mobility

The other report comes from Ireland-based StatCounter, a company that collects visitor statistics for website operators.

StatCounter found iPhone use has a big lead over Nokia in the US, taking 0.18 percent of the total browser share compared with the latter's 0.01 percent. Internationally, the situation is reversed with shares of 0.08 percent and 0.25 percent.

If you include the iPod touch, mobile Safari's share of the US browser market increases to 0.23 percent.

StatCounter's analysis was based on 372 million page views between Decemvber 2007 and March 2008.

The thing about browser share figures is that they combine the number of users with the frequency of use. Globally, the iPhone represents a tiny fraction of the installed base of web-capable mobile phones, but owners are more likely to use the Internet because the majority of iPhones are sold with unlimited data plans.