File:Usage share of alternative web browsers (Source StatCounter).svg

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Description
English: The graph was generated with the below R code (file name "generate.R"): 
# Running:
#> setwd("[path]")
#> source("generate.R")
browser.data <- read.table("stats.txt", header=T, sep="\t")
browser.names = c("Firefox", "Chrome", "Safari", "Opera", "mobile")
browser.years = as.Date(browser.data$Date)

# http://gs.statcounter.com/#browser-ww-monthly-201109-201301
browser.firefox = browser.data$Firefox
browser.chrome = browser.data$Chrome
browser.safari = browser.data$Safari
browser.opera = browser.data$Opera
# http://gs.statcounter.com/#mobile_vs_desktop-ww-monthly-201109-201301
browser.mobile = browser.data$Mobile

browser.title = "Usage share of alternative web browsers"
browser.sub = "Source: StatCounter - Browser and Mobile vs Desktop (both monthly)"
browser.file = "Usage share of alternative web browsers (Source StatCounter).svg"


browser.maxPercent = max(browser.firefox, browser.chrome, browser.safari, browser.opera, na.rm=TRUE)
browser.maxPercent = ceiling(browser.maxPercent/10)*10

# output
svg(file=browser.file)

# lwd - thicknes of plot lines
# mar - margin in lines: bottom, left, top, right
par(lwd=3,mar=c(2,2,0,0))

# plot with title and subtitle (change mar above!)
#plot(browser.years, browser.firefox, col=2, type="l", ylim=c(0, browser.maxPercent), xlab="Year", ylab="Percent", main=browser.title, sub=browser.sub)
plot(browser.years, browser.firefox, col=2, type="l", ylim=c(0, browser.maxPercent), xlab="Year", ylab="Percent")
lines(browser.years, browser.chrome, col=3)
lines(browser.years, browser.safari, col=4)
lines(browser.years, browser.opera, col=5)
# mobile is from different source - adding different style
lines(browser.years, browser.mobile, col=6, lty=3)
 
# legend in the plot area
legend("left",inset=0.05,col=2:6,lwd=3,legend=browser.names)
 
dev.off()

Contents of stat.txt (NA = not available):

Date	Firefox	Chrome	Safari	Opera	Other	Mobile
2013-02-01	21.32	37.05	8.56	1.22	1.92	14.3
2013-01-01	21.42	36.52	8.29	1.19	1.87	14.13
2012-12-01	21.89	36.42	7.92	1.26	1.72	14.55
2012-11-01	22.37	35.72	7.83	1.39	1.46	13.08
2012-10-01	22.32	34.77	7.81	1.63	1.39	12.3
2012-09-01	22.4	34.21	7.7	1.61	1.38	12.03
2012-08-01	22.85	33.59	7.39	1.63	1.69	11.78
2012-07-01	23.73	33.81	7.12	1.72	1.58	11.09
2012-06-01	24.56	32.76	7	1.77	1.61	10.4
2012-05-01	25.55	32.43	7.09	1.77	1.04	10.11
2012-04-01	24.87	31.23	7.13	1.72	0.98	9.58
2012-03-01	24.98	30.87	6.72	1.78	0.82	8.99
2012-02-01	24.88	29.84	6.77	2.02	0.73	8.53
2012-01-01	24.78	28.4	6.62	1.95	0.79	8.49
2011-12-01	25.27	27.27	6.08	1.98	0.75	8.04
2011-11-01	25.23	25.69	5.92	1.82	0.71	6.95
2011-10-01	26.39	25	5.93	1.81	0.69	6.55
2011-09-01	26.79	23.61	5.6	1.72	0.62	6.74
2011-08-01	27.49	23.16	5.19	1.67	0.61	7.12
2011-07-01	27.95	22.14	5.17	1.66	0.63	7.02
2011-06-01	28.34	20.65	5.07	1.74	0.61	6.53
2011-05-01	29.29	19.36	5.01	1.84	0.63	5.75
2011-04-01	29.67	18.29	5.04	1.91	0.57	5.21
2011-03-01	29.98	17.37	5.02	1.97	0.54	4.7
2011-02-01	30.37	16.54	5.08	2	0.55	4.45
2011-01-01	30.68	15.68	5.09	2	0.55	4.3
2010-12-01	30.76	14.85	4.79	2.07	0.58	4.1
2010-11-01	31.17	13.35	4.7	2.01	0.6	4.02
2010-10-01	31.24	12.39	4.56	2	0.6	3.81
2010-09-01	31.5	11.54	4.42	2.03	0.63	3.5
2010-08-01	31.09	10.76	4.23	1.88	0.7	3.21
2010-07-01	30.69	9.88	4.09	1.91	0.74	2.86
2010-06-01	31.15	9.24	4.07	1.91	0.77	2.57
2010-05-01	31.64	8.61	4.14	1.96	0.88	2.32
2010-04-01	31.74	8.06	4.23	1.82	0.89	2.18
2010-03-01	31.27	7.29	4.16	1.97	0.87	1.96
2010-02-01	31.82	6.72	4.08	1.97	0.91	1.72
2010-01-01	31.64	6.04	3.76	2	1.31	1.56
2009-12-01	31.97	5.45	3.48	2.06	1.31	1.28
2009-11-01	32.21	4.66	3.67	2.02	0.86	1.21
2009-10-01	31.82	4.17	3.47	1.88	0.7	1.15
2009-09-01	31.34	3.69	3.28	2.62	0.7	1.12
2009-08-01	31.28	3.38	3.25	2.67	0.73	1.12
2009-07-01	30.5	3.01	3.02	2.64	0.72	1.05
2009-06-01	30.33	2.82	2.93	3.36	1.07	0.94
2009-05-01	28.75	2.42	2.65	3.23	0.87	0.86
2009-04-01	29.67	2.07	2.75	2.96	0.68	0.86
2009-03-01	29.4	1.73	2.73	2.94	0.68	0.8
2009-02-01	27.85	1.52	2.59	2.95	0.67	0.69
2009-01-01	27.03	1.38	2.57	2.92	0.7	0.67
2008-12-01	25.23	1.21	2.41	2.83	0.48	0.6
2008-11-01	25.27	0.93	2.49	3.01	0.16	NA
2008-10-01	25.54	1.02	2.91	2.69	0.17	NA
2008-09-01	25.77	1.03	3	2.86	0.18	NA
2008-08-01	26.08	NA	2.99	1.83	0.2	NA
2008-07-01	26.14	NA	3.3	1.78	0.21	NA
Note that StatCounter doesn't clearly state how does it calculate monthly stats.
Date
Source Own work, data from StatCounter Browser (monthly) and Mobile vs Desktop (monthly)
Author Daniel.Cardenas, Maciej "Nux" Jaros

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