aodhan

Hello,

Thanks for your comment. I'm from StatCounter and would like to address your concerns.

Weighting stats means that the stats are only as good as the weighting methodology used. If the weighting data is inaccurate or out of date, then it renders the data completely incorrect. For these reasons, we choose not to weight our data in any way and instead we report is as we record - other commentators can, however, weight the data as they wish.

I'm not sure why you think we only have data from 4 countries. We have a very large global sample size of over 15 billion hits a month. You can view the country break-down here: http://gs.statcounter.com/faq#sample-size

Where did you get your figures from?

According to StatCounter Global Stats, for Germany in February 2009 Firefox usage was at 58% and IE usage was at 34%.

http://gs.statcounter.com/#browser-DE-monthly-200902-200902-...

Hi,

Thanks for the comment. StatCounter tracks over 10 billion pageviews monthly from across the entire world. The current global stats are based on a sample of 4 billion monthly page views from it (to be expanded shortly!).

There are very few other web stat providers out there who would have anywhere close to that reach we have. The ones that are currently providing global stats would be very us-centric and if you check our US stats they will more closely match them.

http://gs.statcounter.com/#browser-US-daily-20080701-2009030...

I hope that helps.

Aodhan Cullen

StatCounter