Differences in Measurement
Net Applications and W3Counter use unique visitors to measure web usage. This has the effect that users visiting a site ten times will only be counted once by these sources, while they are counted ten times by statistics companies that measure page hits.
Net Applications also uses country-level weighting to correct for bias caused by variation in sampling rates across countries.
Read more about this topic: Usage Share Of Web Browsers
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