research online optimization web marketing founded 1999 headquarters aliso viejo california united states key people phil vizzaccaro founder and ceo vincent vizzaccaro exec . vp of marketing and strategic relationships matt hopkins exec . vp of sales and business development edward gluzman vp eng products hitslink web analytics netmarketshare surveyware searchterms.com sharepost bookmarking managed dns 1stwarning site monitoring website net applications net applications is a web analytics firm . the company is commonly known in the web browser development and technology news communities for its global market share statistics . citation needed contents 1 history 2 market share statistics 3 criticism 4 see also 5 references 6 external links history edit since 1999 net applications is a source of applications for webmasters and emarketers . headquartered in aliso viejo california net applications distributes its services through over 7 000 partners and affiliates . citation needed market share statistics edit net applications is known for being a provider of usage share statistics for web browsers and operating systems . citation needed it provides these services through its product market share . the statistics are available on a month to month basis for free but they are also available down to hourly statistics as a paid service . the freely available statistics stretch back to november 2007 though their data stretches back to at least q4 2004 . in august 2009 net applications began weighting its raw data based on the number of internet users in the countries concerned using data from the cia ; the changes were applied retroactively to older data . 1 net applications measures browser usage by tracking the machines that visit the 40 000 sites it monitors for clients which results in a pool of about 160 million unique visitors per month . criticism edit while the statistics released by the company routinely place operating systems sold by microsoft windows and apple mac os x with a high market share in the desktop computer category through 2013 vincent vizzaccaro evp marketing and strategic alliances net applications 2002 present has stated that microsoft and apple are among the company s clients . 2 the company has also admitted that their statistics are skewed . 3 these admissions and the fact the company doesn t make their data sources or processing methods public has led some to criticize the company 4 questioning their impartiality and the reliability of their statistics . see also edit usage share of web browsers usage share of operating systems web browser market share browser wars references edit country level weighting . net applications . 2009 08 01 . retrieved 2009 08 01 . vincent vizzaccaro linkedin profile . linkedin.com . 2009 02 09 . retrieved 2013 10 09 . safari market share tops 7 % but tracking firm admits data is skewed . the industry standard via the internet archive . 2008 12 02 . archived from the original on december 5 2008 . retrieved 2013 10 09 . microsoft and apple pay net applications . techrights.org editor dr. roy schestowitz . 2009 02 04 . retrieved 2013 10 09 . external links edit official website v t e web browsers comparison history list for unix timeline usage share features ad filtering augmented browsing bookmarks bookmarklet live bookmark smart bookmarks browser extension browser security browser synchronizer comparison cookies download manager favicon incremental search plug in privacy mode tabs universal edit button web standards acid tests cascading style sheets html html5 javascript mathml ocsp svg webgl xhtml related topics browserchoice.eu crl http https iloo internet suite man in the browser mobile web offline reader pac pwn2own rich internet application site specific browser spdy ssl tls websocket widget world wide web wpad xml desktop blink based chromium brave chrome dragon opera sleipnir slimjet srware iron uc browser vivaldi yandex.browser sputnik webkit based arora avant dooble 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for ios maxthon mercury browser nokia browser for symbian rockmelt safari steel trident based maxthon gecko based firefox for android microb minimo presto based opera mini other blazer cm browser deepfish ibisbrowser internet explorer mobile iris browser konqueror embedded microsoft edge netfront nokia xpress skweezer skyfire teashark thunderhawk uc browser vision winwap television and video game console webkit based google tv nintendo 3ds internet browser nintendo ds & dsi browser netfront steam overlay wii u internet browser gecko based kylo presto based internet channel other msn tv software no longer in development shown in italics category commons internet portal software portal retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title net applications & oldid 712885259 categories internet properties established in 1999internet companies of the united statesweb analyticshidden categories all articles with unsourced statementsarticles with unsourced statements from january 2013 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