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Browsers two-anchor observed comparison2025 3,720 to 2026 3,612, a decrease of -108. The vertical placement is normalized to this two-point comparison and is not a shared scale.PRIOR ANCHORLATEST ANCHOR

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Q32 / Defined markets / Market mechanism

Which entry, exit, share, switching, price, quality, or capacity evidence can explain the movement inside this exact market boundary?

Browsers / Herfindahl-Hirschman Index
2025
3,720
prior anchor
Observed change
-108
1 year
2026
3,612
latest anchor
Current custody
1
source record
Observed comparisonExact values, periods, metric, unit, and universe stay attached.
Research questionThe monitor question is preserved verbatim as a bounded program of inquiry.
Evidence to collectDeclared requests are future work, not established evidence or findings.
Evidence standard

Published signal

The observation behind the question

Latest observed anchor versus the immediately preceding observed anchor; intervening years are not estimated.
20253,720prior
-108Decrease
20263,612latest
Observed signalBrowsers moved from 3,720 in 2025 to 3,612 in 2026 (-108.0 HHI points).

The latest encoded HHI anchor is lower within this documented market series. The change alone does not identify a cause or establish competitive harm.

This is a within-profile comparison governed by the documented statcounter browser page-view usage share boundary. It is not annualized and should not be compared as a common national series with differently defined markets.

Declared empirical track

Market mechanism

Test entry, exit, switching, price, quality, capacity, and share pathways inside the declared market boundary.
Evidence base
4 observed anchors / 2023-2026
Data status
estimated public
Confidence
medium
Metric family
market-hhi

Evidence to collect

4 declared requests
  1. 01

    Entry and exit chronology for the same product and geographic boundary.

  2. 02

    Participant shares at both observed anchors, including acquisitions and denominator changes.

  3. 03

    Switching, price, quality, output, and capacity records covering the comparison window.

  4. 04

    Method documentation confirming the market boundary and measurement basis across both anchors.

These requests define collection work. Their inclusion does not assert that the records exist, support a claim, or establish a cause.

Current source custody

Evidence already attached to the observed signal

Collection requests above remain separate from these published source records.

This is a within-profile comparison governed by the documented statcounter browser page-view usage share boundary. It is not annualized and should not be compared as a common national series with differently defined markets.