Usage share
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Usage share refers to the relative market
adoption of various products, for example:
Market
A market is one of many varieties of systems, institutions, procedures, social relations and infrastructures whereby parties engage in exchange. While parties may exchange goods and services by barter, most markets rely on sellers offering their goods or services in exchange for money from buyers...
adoption of various products, for example:
- Web browsersUsage share of web browsersThe usage share of a web browser is the proportion, often expressed as a percentage, of users of all web browsers who use that particular browser. This figure can only be estimated, typically by determining the proportion of visitors to a group of websites that use a particular web browser...
- BitTorrent clientsUsage share of BitTorrent clientsThe usage share of BitTorrent clients is the percentage of users that use a particular BitTorrent client. For example, when it is said that the official BitTorrent client has 12% usage share, it means that some version of BitTorrent client is used by 12% of users.-Delft University of Technology:A...
- Operating systems
- Web search engines
- Instant messaging clientsUsage share of instant messaging clientsThis is a table comparing the different instant messenger clients available.- External links :* - CC-Licensed market share data....
See also
- Market shareMarket shareMarket share is the percentage of a market accounted for by a specific entity. In a survey of nearly 200 senior marketing managers, 67 percent responded that they found the "dollar market share" metric very useful, while 61% found "unit market share" very useful.Marketers need to be able to...
- Market valueMarket valueMarket value is the price at which an asset would trade in a competitive auction setting. Market value is often used interchangeably with open market value, fair value or fair market value, although these terms have distinct definitions in different standards, and may differ in some...
- Market powerMarket powerIn economics, market power is the ability of a firm to alter the market price of a good or service. In perfectly competitive markets, market participants have no market power. A firm with market power can raise prices without losing its customers to competitors...
- Market share analysisMarket share analysisMarket share analysis is an important part of market analysis and indicates how well a firm is doing in the marketplace compared to its competitors.Givon, Mahajan, and Muller have researched spreadsheet and word processing software firms to give a clearer image of how to determine market share in...