{"id":148453,"date":"2025-09-24T02:06:33","date_gmt":"2025-09-24T06:06:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/davescomputertips.com\/?p=148453"},"modified":"2025-09-24T02:06:33","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T06:06:33","slug":"is-windows-11-losing-ground-to-windows-10-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davescomputertips.com\/is-windows-11-losing-ground-to-windows-10-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Windows 11 Losing Ground to Windows 10?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"daves-1584771191\" class=\"daves-single-post-before-content\" style=\"margin-bottom: 25px;\"><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-7205184075006101\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-7205184075006101\" \ndata-ad-slot=\"2700504761\" \ndata-ad-format=\"auto\" data-full-width-responsive=\"false\"><\/ins>\n<script> \n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); \n<\/script>\n<\/div><p>Yet another sensationalist headline &#8211; e.g., <em>Windows 10 usage share climbs while Windows 11&#8217;s falls<\/em> &#8211; is doing the rounds, suggesting that Windows 11&#8217;s user base is shrinking with a corresponding increase in Windows 10 users. These headlines are predicated on numbers provided by StatCounter, which are inherently flawed.<\/p>\n<p>To use StatCounter&#8217;s numbers to produce these types of clickbait headlines is totally misleading, bordering on unethical:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/davescomputertips.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/StatCounter-Logo.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-148457\" src=\"https:\/\/davescomputertips.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/StatCounter-Logo.png\" alt=\"statcounter-logo\" width=\"328\" height=\"111\" srcset=\"https:\/\/davescomputertips.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/StatCounter-Logo.png 328w, https:\/\/davescomputertips.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/StatCounter-Logo-150x51.png 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 328px) 100vw, 328px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>StatCounter has never been set up to collate &#8220;market share&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>StatCounter&#8217;s core business model is to provide a subscription service to analyze traffic for individual websites<\/li>\n<li>StatCounter counts only pageviews, as its business model dictates<\/li>\n<li>StatCounter only monitors a tiny percentage (around .003%) of websites, most of which are smaller websites<\/li>\n<li>Any browser or browser extension that blocks tracking also blocks StatCounter<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>What rankles me is that most, if not all, of these tech writers are well aware of StatCounter&#8217;s shortcomings yet continue to prioritize clicks over and above accuracy, producing clickbait titles backed up by totally misleading data.<\/p>\n<p><strong>BOTTOM LINE<\/strong>:<\/p><div id=\"daves-2169104694\" class=\"daves-single-post-in-content\" style=\"margin-bottom: 25px;\"><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-7205184075006101\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-7205184075006101\" \ndata-ad-slot=\"2700504761\" \ndata-ad-format=\"auto\" data-full-width-responsive=\"false\"><\/ins>\n<script> \n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); \n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<p>No, Windows 11&#8217;s user base hasn&#8217;t suddenly declined, with Windows 10&#8217;s user base increasing exponentially. The truth of the matter is that StatCounter is incapable of producing market share numbers with any degree of accuracy, and because of its methodology, it will almost always produce wildly fluctuating numbers from month to month.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<\/p>\n<div id=\"daves-215694247\" class=\"daves-after-content\"><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-7205184075006101\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-7205184075006101\" \ndata-ad-slot=\"3225321574\" \ndata-ad-format=\"autorelaxed\" data-full-width-responsive=\"false\"><\/ins>\n<script> \n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); \n<\/script>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yet another sensationalist headline &#8211; e.g., Windows 10 usage share climbs while Windows 11&#8217;s falls &#8211; is doing the rounds, suggesting that Windows 11&#8217;s user base is shrinking with a corresponding increase in Windows 10 users. These headlines are predicated on numbers provided by StatCounter, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":148456,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"default","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"set","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[519,4293,10797],"tags":[279,5491],"class_list":["post-148453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-consumer","category-win10","category-win11","tag-market-share","tag-user-data"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davescomputertips.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148453","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davescomputertips.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davescomputertips.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davescomputertips.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davescomputertips.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/davescomputertips.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148453\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davescomputertips.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/148456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davescomputertips.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davescomputertips.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davescomputertips.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}