Market share

It was the a lot of broadly acclimated web browser during its administration (surpassing Internet Explorer 5.x), attaining a aiguille in acceptance allotment during 2002 and 2003 in the top 80s, and calm with added versions up to 95%.citation bare It alone boring beneath up to 2007, if it absent about bisected its bazaar allotment to Windows Internet Explorer 7 and Mozilla Firefox amid backward 2006 to 2008.

IE6 remained added accepted than its almsman in business use for added than a year afterwards IE7 came out.22 A 2008 DailyTech commodity noted, "A Survey begin 55.2% of companies still use IE 6 as of December 2007", while "IE 7 alone has a 23.4 percent acceptance rate".22

Net Applications estimated IE6 bazaar allotment at about 39% for September, 2008.23 According to the aforementioned source, IE7 users drift faster to IE8 than users of its antecedent IE6 does. This led to IE6 already afresh acceptable the a lot of broadly acclimated browser version. During the summer and abatement of 2009 and 8 years afterwards its introduction, IE6 already afresh captivated the top atom in agreement of browser bazaar share.24

As of February 2010, estimates of IE6's all-around bazaar allotment ranged from 10-20%.252627 Nonetheless, IE6 continues to advance a advantage or even majority attendance in the browser bazaar of assertive countries, conspicuously China28 and South Korea.2930

Google Apps and YouTube alone abutment for IE6 in March 2010,3132 followed by Facebook babble in September.33

On January 3, 2012, Microsoft appear that acceptance of IE6 in the United States had alone beneath 1%.34

As of August 2012, IE6 is still the a lot of accepted IE web browser in China. It is aswell the additional a lot of acclimated browser all-embracing with a absolute bazaar allotment of 22.41%, just abaft China-made 360 Secure Browser which has 26.96%.35