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Chrome now the most popular browser
- andyking 14y agoDidn't this happen last month?
- Zirro 14y agoDifferent statistics-company, different sources. Market-share like this is difficult to measure.
- gouranga 14y agoThis. I'm surprised that few people take that into consideration.
- mtgx 14y agoI think it happened only for a day or something then, which was still news worthy, but it was still pretty volatile then. Now it's looking like it's going to be a permanent thing (well unless people stop using Chrome in the future).
- mbrubeck 14y agoYes, these stats are from May 2012 and they were first published on June 1 (29 days ago).
- drhowarddrfine 14y agoIE has been losing market share almost every month, every year, for as long as I've been in the web business, which was 2004 when it's market share was 95%+.
- Tichy 14y agoBut how is that possible? Because of the "choose your browser" dialog on MS Windows?
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- judofyr 14y agoAkamai just recently released their statistics, which shows a completely different picture: http://www.akamai.com/io http://www.akamai.com/io
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- harshreality 14y agoAkamai is probably trying to identify unique sessions or clients, and showing stats based on that. Statcounter is tracking browser usage roughly by percentage of requests. They do some corrections, for instance they try to account for Chrome's prefetching. More people (or more computers) might use IE as their default browser, but if Chrome is responsible for more activity (requests), what's the more popular browser?
- dbaupp 14y ago> Chrome is responsible for more activity (requests) Does anyone know if the prefetching/prerendering Chrome does is a significant portion of web traffic? Because that could easily skew request-based analytics.
- kalleboo 14y agoStatcounter claim to adjust for chrome's prefetching, but they never said how (headers?)
- Tobu 14y agoProbably the page visibility API: https://developers.google.com/chrome/whitepapers/pagevisibility https://developers.google.com/chrome/whitepapers/pagevisibil... Headers wouldn't work, because a prefetch often turns into a page view. Edit: their methodology is public. They use the aforementioned API, and headers for the two other browsers that prerender (Firefox and Safari, who rarely prerender because pages must explicitly configure it). Pages pre-rendered and discarded would add 1.3% to Chrome page views if they weren't discounted. Here is the StatCounter FAQ: http://gs.statcounter.com/faq#prerendering http://gs.statcounter.com/faq#prerendering
- JOfferijns 14y agoIt might be noteworthy that Google said so as well on Google I/O. Of course, they are not the most objective source, but they do have the whole Google Analytics dataset. (GA runs on about 55% of all websites: http://w3techs.com/technologies/overview/traffic_analysis/all http://w3techs.com/technologies/overview/traffic_analysis/al...)
- femto113 14y agoPoking around by individual country the only large one I found where Chrome leads is India. Anyone have sauce on why Chrome is so popular there? Are they big enough to skew the whole world?
- geon 14y ago> why Chrome is so popular there? Could it be because it has to run on cheap hardware? Is there any more lightweight browser?
- noahc 14y agoIve found uzbl to be pretty good and lightweight. http://uzbl.org/ http://uzbl.org/
- Wilya 14y agoI don't think Chrome is especially lightweight. It tends to be optimized for speed by using as much resources as available. It might be better than IE in that regard, but it doesn't have any huge advantage over firefox.
- Marwy 14y agoOpera, of course.
- mappu 14y agoDillo 3, and h3v. Non-graphical: links, w3m. Other 'light' webkit shells: uzbl, Midori, Arora
- slig 14y agoI don't know in India, but in Brazil, Google has been running TV ads about Chrome in prime time for a while. Maybe they're doing that there too.
- blntechie 14y agoNot sure this is the reason but Google advertised Chrome heavily in India in addition to the Google properties which are themselves very popular in India. They did advertisements in prime spots in TV, newspapers, other popular Indian websites etc. That could've definitely contributed. Also it's nice to see that Firefox is not lagging much behind Chrome in India. Regarding your question on population, not sure how big is the Indian internet population. I would say 5% of the country(total pop. 1 bn approx) uses Internet regularly. Not sure how much that skews the data.
- d0vs 14y agoHasn't this been debunked? http://windowsteamblog.com/ie/b/ie/archive/2012/03/18/understanding-browser-usage-share-data.aspx http://windowsteamblog.com/ie/b/ie/archive/2012/03/18/unders...
- 1010011010 14y agoYes, that looks like an objective, neutral source.
- harshreality 14y agoYes, your link has been debunked. http://gs.statcounter.com/press/open-letter-ms http://gs.statcounter.com/press/open-letter-ms
- azakai 14y agoIronically, StatCounter's response commits some statistical fallacies, details here http://mozakai.blogspot.com/2012/06/statcounter-and-statistics.html http://mozakai.blogspot.com/2012/06/statcounter-and-statisti... I don't know which source of browser market share is more reliable - no one does, really - and StatCounter made some valid points as well in their rebuttal. But to see them misunderstand statistics like that is cause for doubt.
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- recoiledsnake 14y agoWonder if this will allow Microsoft in Europe to get rid of the EU imposed browser select dialog at first boot.
- abrahamsen 14y agoDoubt it. It is the market share of MS Windows, not MSIE, that makes tying a legally questionable practice.
- Gustomaximus 14y agoI seem to recall it expires at a certain date and would have to be renewed. Today they do have a case to argue that their OS dominance doesn't guarantee browser dominance. It is very different from when this complaint was made as there is healthy competition without the browser select screen. But personally I would like to see it stay.
- Jyaif 14y agoIt doesn't guarantee browser dominance anymore precisely because of the select screen.
- mitchi 14y agoChrome, the 1 gig of ram browser that everyone just loves.
- mertd 14y agoIf the memory is going to go unused otherwise, why the hell not?
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- kibwen 14y agoThis graph is about a month old at this point, it should update with the newest stats tomorrow. Until then, you can see the day-by-day stats for the past month here: http://gs.statcounter.com/#browser-ww-daily-20120531-20120629 http://gs.statcounter.com/#browser-ww-daily-20120531-2012062... Here's another good one that splits the IE line into IE 6/7/8 lines, and the Firefox line into 3.6/4/5+ lines: http://gs.statcounter.com/#browser_version_partially_combined-ww-daily-20120531-20120629 http://gs.statcounter.com/#browser_version_partially_combine... Also be sure to check out the plurality-browser-share-by-country view via the world map: http://gs.statcounter.com/#browser-ww-daily-20120531-20120629-map http://gs.statcounter.com/#browser-ww-daily-20120531-2012062... Granted, it's hard to know who to trust regarding browser market share stats. But more data points are always useful.
- danmaz74 14y agoThanks for the links - it's incredible to see how much Chrome peaks during the weekends at the expense of IE!
- mindstab 14y agoIt really demonstrates (imho) the technical lag of companies: During the week people are browsing at work and it looks like many are still shackled to IE. But on the weekend they go home and use what they want, and that is clearly chrome. Kind of amazing to visualize at this granularity what pops out.
- danmaz74 14y agoIt might also be that on weekends there are fewer internet users in general, but with a higher percentage of the more technically aware ones...
- betterth 14y agoI think that both of these (plus a number of effects yet unnamed) affect it. One of his links, the by version: http://gs.statcounter.com/#browser_version_partially_combined-ww-daily-20120531-20120629 http://gs.statcounter.com/#browser_version_partially_combine... Has some interesting information that I think sheds more light on this: IE8 and IE7 both have weekend dips. (IE6's usage is too small to matter anymore). (IE8 dips almost 25% of it's total, IE7 significantly dips almost 50% but it's already a tiny amount). However, Chrome, IE9, Safari iPad all have weekend peaks. Even Safari itself has an almost unnoticeable uptick on the weekend. This leads me to believe that almost 4% of all internet users use IE7/8 at work and use to Chrome/IE9/iPad on the weekend.
- nextstep 14y agoI'm switching back to Safari when Mountain Lion is released. The unified search/address bar was the only thing holding me back.
- adhipg 14y agoJust curious, what are the issues that you have with Chrome that you want to switch back?
- strmpnk 14y agoI don't know about others but I really like the two-finger double-tap to zoom (pinching too) and the reader mode (and reading list if you use multiple devices with safari). These things seem standard on mobiles but still haven't made it to all desktop browsers. Spotlight history integration is also useful as well, though it could be improved. Otherwise, it's fast enough and supports most new features just fine. Developer tools support isn't quite as nice as Chrome but I usually use Safari until I need Chrome or hit a site that needs flash (since I don't have it installed on my system).
- pclark 14y agoI have consistently found Chrome to never quite feel "Mac like."
- rbreve 14y agotry chrome for iOS you can share your open tabs with all your devices
- strmpnk 14y agoI usually used reading list to share across devices but it did take far too long for Apple to add the live tabs feature. Definitely a feature I wish I had up until developer betas awhile ago.
- gcb 14y agoLike i want to always be logged on my all encompassing google account. That's the reason the only browser i have sync enabled is opera.
- dneb7 14y agoWhat's most interesting to me is that my biggest markets (North America, English-speaking Europe, and Australia) are all still IE strongholds. http://gs.statcounter.com/#browser-ww-monthly-201203-201205-map http://gs.statcounter.com/#browser-ww-monthly-201203-201205-...
- xiaoma 14y agoI wouldn't say stronghold. IE is still the leader but by a relatively small margin in most English speaking markets. The strongholds are China and Korea, where IE usage is well over 70%. In fact, considering that China has the most internet usage of anywhere in the world I have my doubts about the veracity of the world-wide graph. It probably drastically undersamples Chinese numbers. http://gs.statcounter.com/#browser-CN-monthly-201105-201205 http://gs.statcounter.com/#browser-CN-monthly-201105-201205
- Tobu 14y agoStatCounter sees low usage from China (in page-views). The great firewall certainly plays a role. I wonder if said firewall doesn't also play games with the user-agent header, though. http://gs.statcounter.com/press/open-letter-ms#incorrect-weighting http://gs.statcounter.com/press/open-letter-ms#incorrect-wei...
- xiaoma 14y agoI don't buy it. I just moved here from China a couple of months ago, and if anything I'd say 70% is an overly conservative estimation of IE usage. Both of my banks, for example, were accessible only through IE with an active X plug-in which made it impossible for me to check my balance on my mac. The same was true of many, many other sites. Much like the US was 10 years ago, only really hard-core geeks were likely to have firefox or other alternative browsers. As for usage, I also don't buy that. Most people in China are online primarily through their phones, but in first tier cities (which is still a gigantic population), people have bandwidth that most Americans could only dream of. Youku, for example, streamed 5 times the hours of video content as all of Youtube last I checked. And Tudou (which it is merging with) was a competitor on the same scale! In terms of page views, I'd be shocked if Amazon had as many as Taobao. No US news portal approaches QQ. Actually, Tencet (owner of QQ) is considering buying Yahoo!. The only way in which China's internet is small is in the amount of money its users want to spend on content.
- ericingram 14y agoThank god.
- patrickg 14y agoGlad to see that the top three browsers use different rendering engines. Long live diversity. Edit: in the hope of good css/html5 conformance / no browser specific programming like in the old days
- magicalist 14y agoThis is the most remarkable and best fact about the current browser shares, yet everyone gets caught up in the cheerleading (and I'm just as guilty at times). It really is a great state for the browser market to be in.
- xiaoma 14y agoIn both the US and China, IE is far ahead. But look at this Indian usage graph: http://gs.statcounter.com/#browser-IN-monthly-201105-201205 http://gs.statcounter.com/#browser-IN-monthly-201105-201205
- dennisgorelik 14y agoAccording to Google Analytics for my web site (postjobfree.com), top 10 browsers in the last 30 days: 1. Internet Explorer - 40.02% 2. Chrome - 21.33% 3. Firefox - 19.99% 4. Safari - 11.80% 5. Android Browser - 3.74% 6. Mozilla Compatible Agent - 1.33% 7. Opera Mini - 0.70% 8. Opera - 0.54% 9. IE with Chrome Frame - 0.21% 10. BlackBerry8530 - 0.03% So it's not as rosy yet as we'd like.
- tikhonj 14y agoDoes that include both mobile Safari and desktop Safari in one category? I would be curious about how many people use desktop Safari as opposed to the mobile version.
- dennisgorelik 14y agoYes, both are in one "Safari" category. Here's split by OS: 1. Windows - 78.77% 2. Macintosh - 8.39% 3. iOS - 6.10% 4. Android - 3.88% 5. (not set) - 1.50% 6. Linux - 0.69% 7. BlackBerry - 0.30% 8. Nokia - 0.12% 9. SymbianOS - 0.09% 10. Windows Phone - 0.08%
- Axsuul 14y agoIt's all about your audience. Here are my last 30 day stats for jellibug.com, which appeals to a younger crowd 1. Chrome - 40.49% 2. Safari - 28.66% 3. Firefox - 19.41% 4. Internet Explorer - 7.91% 5. Mozilla Compatible Agent - 1.46% 6. Android Browser - 1.00% 7. RockMelt - 0.40% 8. Opera - 0.33% 9. Opera Mini - 0.13% 10. BlackBerry9630 - 0.07%
- eragnew 14y agoyes, but remember, a new version of safari (with new JS engine) is coming out soon, at least to my understanding
- Aloisius 14y agoIt's amazing what happens when you leverage your near monopoly in one area to push a product in another.