Of course this heavily depends on niche. In some European countries Firefox is at almost 20% marketshare
I mentioned that:
> this is Germany, generally far higher FF usage
But the interesting part is not how much FF has here, but how much GA undercounts it.
Yeah it's interesting. I wonder if it's done on purpose or if it has to do with the way bots/crawlers are counted
See parent. The default in FF is to shim the GA script
Also GA requires opt-in in the EU (even if some sites try to be clever and illegally make it harder to refuse than to accept) whereas presumably their first-party tracking is done in such a way consent is not necessary (e.g. sufficient anonymization that a data point can not be correlated with the user it originated from). Presumably FF users are more likely not to consent by default to begin with.
My programming blog (https://thecodist.com) sees Chrome 52%, Safari 27%, Firefox 9%, over six months covering a fair amount of the world. I use Plausible. I never found GA to be very reliable.
Re:Firefox on the Brink?
by nextaccountic on Tuesday December 05, 2023 @03:49PM
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if google analytics is undercounting firefox in a way that may make websites to drop firefox support, i suppose this is a case for antitrust?
because google is using a near monopoly on analytics to bury a competitor in another segment
Ours:
Chrome 37.4% Firefox 24.7% Safari 21.1% Edge 7.5% Opera 2.6%
GA:
Chrome 39.3% Safari 31.5% Firefox 11.9% Edge 9.9% Samsung Internet 2.9%
For us, GA is undercounting FF by almost 13 percentage points, over 50%.