Mobile Devices Statistics
What is the trend in mobile device usage?
Mobile Devices Statistics and Trends
A mobile device is a pocket-sized computing device.
Smartphones today have large touch screens, nice user interfaces, and are highly optimized for browsing the web.
From the statistics below (collected from W3Schools' log-files), you can see the trends of mobile device usage.
Mobile Devices Statistics
The following figures are extracted from our OS Platform Statistics:
*iOS is the operating system for Apple mobile devices (like iPhone, iPad and iPod).
| 2016 | Total | iOS* | Android | Windows | Others |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| March | 5.13 % | 1.24 % | 3.41 % | 0.38 % | 0.10 % |
| February | 5.15 % | 1.08 % | 3.49 % | 0.42 % | 0.16 % |
| January | 5.38 % | 1.17 % | 3.69 % | 0.37 % | 0.15 % |
| 2015 | Total | iOS* | Android | Windows | Others |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| December | 5.32 % | 1.31 % | 3.47 % | 0.34 % | 0.20 % |
| November | 4.99 % | 1.32 % | 3.09 % | 0.41 % | 0.22 % |
| October | 4.96 % | 1.01 % | 3.37 % | 0.36 % | 0.22 % |
| September | 4.96 % | 1.21 % | 3.24 % | 0.34 % | 0.17 % |
| August | 5.01 % | 1.16 % | 3.23 % | 0.40 % | 0.22 % |
| July | 5.03 % | 1.12 % | 3.15 % | 0.45 % | 0.31 % |
| June | 5.37 % | 1.28 % | 3.28 % | 0.50 % | 0.31 % |
| May | 5.37 % | 1.50 % | 3.16 % | 0.48 % | 0.23 % |
| April | 5.00 % | 1.27 % | 2.99 % | 0.46 % | 0.28 % |
| March | 4.98 % | 1.10 % | 3.08 % | 0.54 % | 0.26 % |
| February | 5.01 % | 1.27 % | 2.93 % | 0.49 % | 0.32 % |
| January | 5.00 % | 1.31 % | 2.88 % | 0.46 % | 0.35 % |
| 2014 | Total | iOS* | Android | Windows | Others |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| December | 4.81 % | 1.18 % | 2.73 % | 0.49 % | 0.41 % |
| November | 4.51 % | 1.12 % | 2.72 % | 0.34 % | 0.33 % |
| October | 4.32 % | 1.10 % | 2.36 % | 0.39 % | 0.47 % |
| September | 4.29 % | 1.11 % | 2.34 % | 0.43 % | 0.41 % |
| August | 4.89 % | 1.37 % | 2.51 % | 0.42 % | 0.59 % |
| July | 4.57 % | 1.13 % | 2.46 % | 0.39 % | 0.58 % |
| June | 4.34 % | 1.23 % | 2.31 % | 0.24 % | 0.56 % |
| May | 4.16 % | 1.27 % | 2.14 % | 0.13 % | 0.62 % |
| April | 4.03 % | 1.20 % | 2.10 % | 0.11 % | 0.62 % |
| March | 4.00 % | 1.32 % | 2.01 % | 0.11 % | 0.56 % |
| February | 4.00 % | 1.21 % | 2.01 % | 0.12 % | 0.66 % |
| January | 4.00 % | 1.23 % | 1.93 % | 0.08 % | 0.76 % |
| 2013 | Total | iOS* | Android | Others |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| December | 3.80 % | 1.13 % | 1.76 % | 0.91 % |
| November | 3.68 % | 1.20 % | 1.67 % | 0.81 % |
| October | 3.29 % | 1.12 % | 1.44 % | 0.73 % |
| September | 3.26 % | 0.95 % | 1.55 % | 0.76 % |
| August | 3.38 % | 1.21 % | 1.43 % | 0.74 % |
| July | 3.16 % | 1.03 % | 1.37 % | 0.76 % |
| June | 3.17 % | 1.15 % | 1.32 % | 0.70 % |
| May | 2.64 % | 1.12 % | 1.04 % | 0.48 % |
| April | 2.24 % | 1.06 % | 0.97 % | 0.21 % |
| March | 2.26 % | 1.11 % | 0.96 % | 0.19 % |
| February | 2.17 % | 1.06 % | 0.91 % | 0.20 % |
| January | 2.18 % | 1.07 % | 0.90 % | 0.21 % |
| 2012 | Total | iOS* | Android | Others |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| December | 2.19 % | 1.05 % | 0.90 % | 0.24 % |
| November | 1.97 % | 1.00 % | 0.77 % | 0.20 % |
| October | 1.84 % | 0.94 % | 0.70 % | 0.20 % |
| September | 1.78 % | 0.89 % | 0.68 % | 0.21 % |
| August | 1.79 % | 0.91 % | 0.66 % | 0.22 % |
| July | 1.71 % | 0.90 % | 0.59 % | 0.22 % |
| June | 1.63 % | 0.90 % | 0.52 % | 0.21 % |
| May | 1.57 % | 0.88 % | 0.50 % | 0.19 % |
| April | 1.47 % | 0.83 % | 0.45 % | 0.19 % |
| March | 1.40 % | 0.78 % | 0.44 % | 0.18 % |
| February | 1.27 % | 0.71 % | 0.39 % | 0.17 % |
| January | 1.25 % | 0.70 % | 0.38 % | 0.17 % |
| 2011 | Total | iPhone | iPad | iPod | Android | Others |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| December | 1.17 % | 0.20 % | 0.39 % | 0.04 % | 0.35 % | 0.19 % |
| November | 1.02 % | 0.19 % | 0.36 % | 0.04 % | 0.30 % | 0.13 % |
| October | 0.96 % | 0.19 % | 0.33 % | 0.04 % | 0.28 % | 0.12 % |
| September | 0.89 % | 0.17 % | 0.30 % | 0.04 % | 0.25 % | 0.13 % |
| August | 0.91 % | 0.19 % | 0.30 % | 0.05 % | 0.24 % | 0.13 % |
| July | 0.95 % | 0.20 % | 0.31 % | 0.06 % | 0.24 % | 0.14 % |
| June | 0.87 % | 0.19 % | 0.30 % | 0.05 % | 0.21 % | 0.12 % |
| May | 0.80 % | 0.20 % | 0.25 % | 0.05 % | 0.19 % | 0.11 % |
| April | 0.78 % | 0.20 % | 0.25 % | 0.05 % | 0.18 % | 0.10 % |
| March | 0.70 % | 0.18 % | 0.21 % | 0.06 % | 0.16 % | 0.09 % |
| February | 0.66 % | 0.18 % | 0.19 % | 0.06 % | 0.14 % | 0.09 % |
| January | 0.65 % | 0.18 % | 0.20 % | 0.06 % | 0.13 % | 0.08 % |
