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Apple’s Safari anti-fingerprinting changes misreported iOS 26.2 as 18.7 and iOS 26.1 as 18.6. Patch applied on 19 Jan 2026 to correct Apple-introduced distortion. #daily-20260113-20260120" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">gs.statcounter.com/ios-version-ma…

@Apple are incorrectly declaring iOS 26 as 18.7 and 18.6 in their Safari browser on iOS. We're working on a fix for this. gs.statcounter.com/os-version-mar…

@OpenAI @perplexity_ai Dia from The Browser Company is out of waitlist now. It is also identifying as Chrome. If @diabrowser identifies as a unique browser in the future, we will track its usage.

Chatgpt Atlas and Perplexity Comet browsers are both identifying as the Chrome browser. If they identify as themselves in the future, we will track their usage. @OpenAI @perplexity_ai

In AI Chatbot Market Share Worldwide, Mar - May 2025, @ChatGPTapp rules the world! My POV: most (not all) generic chatbots will be shot lived! All indicators show, and if history is a barometer, AI will be woven into applications and operating systems. Definitely the usage will go down for the ones which survive. Why will you copy paste results into other applications if you can have native AI. - ChatGPT 79.83% - Perplexity 11.81% - Microsoft Copilot 5.17% - Google Gemini 1.94% - Deepseek 0.8% - Claude 0.44% Source: @Statcounter’s data covering the period from May 2024 to May 2025. #monthly-202503-202505-map" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">gs.statcounter.com/ai-chatbot-mar… @dvellante @furrier @Craw @ShellyKramer @SanjMo @rwang0 @efipm @theCUBE @jonfortt @dee_bosa

ChatGPT leads the AI chatbot market in May 2025 with 79.8% of worldwide referral traffic, according to StatCounter. Perplexity (11.8%), Microsoft Copilot (5.2%), and Google Gemini (2%) follow!

🚨 ChatGPT now drives nearly 80% of AI chatbot referrals to websites — leaving Google Gemini in the dust at just 2%, says Statcounter. With AI reshaping how users find your site, are you still betting everything on search? Statcounter’s new report shows where traffic is really coming from—and why marketers should start thinking GEO (Generative Engine Optimization), not just SEO. 📊 See the data → billhartzer.com/ai/chatgpt-now… #DigitalMarketing #AItraffic #ChatGPT #SEO #GEO #Statcounter #WebAnalytics #MarketingStrategy #SearchIsChanging #AIChatbots

ChatGPT sends 79.8% of all chatbot referrals to websites

This is what happened when Microsoft started sending referral headers for Copilot on the 1st May. x.com/statcountergs/…

Here's a link to the live report. #weekly-202519-202519-bar" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">gs.statcounter.com/ai-chatbot-mar…

Hi @grok @X @elonmusk @ibab @jimmybajimmyba. We'd love to include Grok in this report. Could Grok send a referral header? Website owners & marketers will see when Grok is sending them traffic. We will also be able to publish Grok stats in this report alongside chatgpt & copilot.

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Wow! After @Microsoft began including referral data just a week ago, @Copilot is now the second-largest AI chatbot referrer in the US to the Statcounter network.

Almost a 3% increase for #windows11 in October. Any thoughts about what could be behind this jump? #monthly-202211-202310" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">gs.statcounter.com/windows-versio… #Technology #GlobalStats #Windows #Microsoft #OS #statcounterGS #statcounter

@MishaalRahman Thanks @MishaalRahman - it's fixed from the 8th June and we're working on fixing the period from 2023-05-09 to 2023-06-07

While we're on the subject of Android version distribution statistics, Reddit users noticed a pecularity with StatCounter's data. The % of Android 10 users spiked from 16.65% in April to 47.84% in May 2023, but this can likely be attributed to how they collect their data as the rollout of Chrome's user-agent reduction was enabled for 100% of Android devices in May. If you look at the UA string in Chrome on your Android phone, you'll likely see it reported as something like "Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 10; K) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/98.0.0.0 Mobile Safari/537.36." This is done to reduce passive fingerprinting of devices. Sources: gs.statcounter.com/android-versio… reddit.com/r/Android/comm… chromium.org/updates/ua-red… developer.chrome.com/en/docs/privac…

Google has updated the Android version distribution statistics shown in Android Studio to reflect the latest data as of May 30, 2023. Here's how the % of (GMS Android) devices has changed since January 2023 when the stats were last publicly updated. - Android 13: 5.2% - 15% - Android 12: 18.9% -> 16.3% - Android 11: 24.4% -> 23.1% - Android 10: 19.5% -> 17.8% - Android 9: 13.2% -> 11.9% - Android 8.1: 6.9% -> 6.1% - Android 8: 2.6% -> 2.2% - Android 7.1: 1.8% -> 1.5% - Android 7: 1.9% -> 1.5% - Android 6: 2.8% -> 2.3% - Android 5.1: 1.8% -> 1.5% - Android 5: 0.3% -> 0.3% - Android 4.4: 0.7% -> 0.5%

@XMLArbyter @statcounter Fixed!

@ArrowType @caniuse Here's a windows version chart: gs.statcounter.com/os-version-mar…

Related question: Is there publicly-available data on relative usage of different versions of Windows 10? Ideally, there might be a @caniuse sort of view...

Font dev question: How long should you include workarounds in fonts to account for old software bugs? Windows 10 mishandled variable metrics like underline (MVAR) until May or Nov 2019. Should MVAR still be cut out of new variable fonts, or not?

@_developit What FAQ are you referring to?

@statcountergs Interesting - the FAQ seems like it might in need of an update?

Food for thought: We accept that it's okay to drop support for Android 5 - released in 2014 for a Nexus 5 flagship, which has 3.3% marketshare today. But we still support IE11 - released in 2013 before the Surface product line existed, which has 0.8% marketshare today. Why?

@_developit We use javascript to collect the info. We have a fallback image collection method too, but that's for a very small percentage now.

3. All of the browser data assumes the User Agent string is a reliable mechanism for determining which browser made a request. StatCounter's collection uses <img>, which can't inspect runtime info for verification, and is easily+widely blocked by tracking prevention & adblocks.