Web developers and Web site designers that ignore Mac users by not testing their Web sites to ensure they work properly with Safari and on the Mac OS are making a big mistake and that mistake is getting bigger.

In the last eight months the amount of people that surf the Web with an Apple computer has doubled. Mac users are now just over 6% of all the computers on the Internet and it’s growing rapidly as Microsoft loses more and more users to the Mac OS.

“For the first time since 1999, when we started tracking, the Mac has really made a major push,” said Johnston. Since August, the percentage of online Macs running Apple’s operating system has climbed from the long-flat 3% to 5.6%, he said. Net Applications data, which splits the Mac’s share between computers running the PowerPC version of Mac OS and those with an Intel edition of the operating system, pegged the total share at 6.2% for April.

“When you see Mac, or any browser, like Firefox, moving past 5%, you just can’t turn them away,” said Johnston. Web site designers and Web application developers, he said, had better pay attention to the Mac.

The amount of people switching to Mac is on the verge of exploding and if you’re not developing for Mac now or don’t start very soon you’re just going to be left in the dust along with Microsoft.

[Mac share of surfers doubles in eight months via Apple Gazette]

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