Browser Wars Alternative upgrades: statistical data fight each other

Browser wars data controversy browsers are playing hard, the real market share has become a Shing lead: foreign media wrote today, as the internet market booming, Internet equipment and Internet access agreements are increasingly diverse, resulting in browser market share is becoming more and more difficult to statistics, the data of different agencies are even more disparate. But it also reflects the growing popularity of the browser wars from another side. The following is the full text of the article: Data controversy a new round of browser war smoke again, this time, the statistics became the focus: Microsoft and Google, who is the most popular browser users around the world? StatCounter, an Irish browser market research firm, said last month that Google Chrome had overtaken Microsoft IE to become the world's largest browser, with a share of 33% and 32% per cent. The company has even said that this advantage has been happening for some time. But Microsoft executives retort StatCounter's data and cite rival data that it is still the choice of more than half of the world's internet users, with a share of 54%, much higher than Chrome's 20%. Last week, StatCounter another dispatch. However, despite the disagreement, there has been no clarification of a key question: how many users in each browser? The answer is significant for Microsoft and Google, who view browsers as a core element that affects how people surf the Web and search. It's also important for web developers because they need to decide on which browsers to optimize the site for. "Who has the browser, who has the opportunity to attract more users for their products and services," said Al Hilwa, a software analyst at IDC, a marketing research firm. A natural problem. The bewildering state of the puzzle underscores the inherent difficulty of the network traffic monitoring industry: Online behavior automatically generates massive amounts of data that can be traced, but it is difficult to interpret it and will become more difficult in the future. IE and Safari, for example, are bundled with Microsoft and Apple's operating systems, and are usually sold with the new computer. Chrome and Firefox need to be downloaded separately. It was much easier to monitor Internet traffic before the first round of browser wars in the 90 's. According to Nassen Newman Nathan Newman, when IE began to challenge the market leader Netscape, and eventually succeed. Newman has a Ph. D. in sociology, currently serving on the Internet consumer group Netaction, which specializes in browser market share. Before the 90 's, the Internet was much simpler than it was now, when a computer installed a browser. So it's easy to track what browsers people use, he says. But the internet market has long been the same, with smartphones and tablets emerging, internet devices are no longer limited to PCs, and in addition to browsers, other protocols and RSS readers can crawl Web content. Even the main body of the Internet is no longer just human: all kinds of automated programs, including search crawlers, are growing at a high speed. The browser itself also sendsChanged, for example, that Chrome sometimes guesses the user's intentions based on past data, thereby loading the Web pages beforehand. Global Internet traffic has also risen sharply, and China has become the world's most populous country. These problems make the share of web browsers more difficult to count. These companies use tracking tools on their Web sites to analyze traffic to determine which browsers they are using. However, the website that installs these tools cannot represent the entire Internet. For example, some websites are popular in the United States, but not in China. In addition, if the search engine crawler or browser's preload system visited the site, it will make the statistical process more complex.