NA do not have enough data to be statistically viable. And even if they did, their sample is not representative. And even if it was, they have been caught numerous times lying and manipulating data.

Opera IS gaining market share. According to StatCounter, Opera had 1.4% worldwide a year ago. Now it has more than 3%. And the best part is that the 3% figure adds up if you compare Opera’s 40 million desktop users to the total number of people online according to various analysts.

In Europe, Opera had 3-4% a year ago. Now more than 8%.

Opera is stagnant when it comes to market share

As I have shown, this is a lie. Stop relying on Net Applications.

I have to ask you, but have you ever considered seeking professional help on your mental health? Ammount of hatred in your posts is _way_ above norm. I hope your parent are near to help you.

[quote]Darn right they don’t. They make them up on the spot!

You are basically willfully passing on lies. That makes you a liar.[/quote]

Back on topic. NetApplications have large enough ammount of data to be statistically viable. And (even) if they are biased, and rely too much on US market, the trend that can be seen is rather clear. Opera (as I think this is your problem) is _NOT_ gaining market share (not users, share) at a speed you’d like to see. This is hardly surprising given they are loosing (or lost?) browser war already.

The same fact can be drawn from whatever stat gathering site you can choose. Just because this _is_ exactly like it is – Opera is stagnant when it comes to market share, and hyperagressive rhetorics (and baseless acusations, etc) is not going to change, and even if, then for worse, because you are _revolting_ example of Opera user/ambassador.

Net Applications can hardly be considered liars as an industry standard.

On the contrary, liars cannot be considered to be an industry standard. If we rely on liars as an “industry standard”, then the industry is screwed.

They collect their data from a network of 40,000 sites worldwide, for a total of 160 million site visitors. This is a statistically significant sample.

No it isn’t. It is not a representative sample because the selection method is invalid. Besides, StatCounter has an even bigger sample than Net Applications.

But perhaps you should go back to school to learn statistics. Just because you have a lot of data doesn’t mean that the data is statistically valid.

The sites are skewed towards English-speaking sites, but is by no means limited to that.

Net Applications is almost exclusively focused on the US.

Because he is Opera fanboy

So? He just know what’s good. End.

They don’t guess statistics.

Darn right they don’t. They make them up on the spot!

You are basically willfully passing on lies. That makes you a liar.

http://my.opera.com/haavard/blog/2008/12/12/net-applications-again-opera-vs-chrome-actual-numbers-vs-claimed-market-sha