StatCounter: Chrome Continues Rise, IE Slips in Market Share
Posted on 01. Sep, 2010 by Daniel Cawrey in News
It’s the beginning of another month, and that means StatCounter and NetApplications both release conflicting reports about browser share statistics. I shared last month my reasoning behind using Statcounter for a gauge which is that NetApplications requires you to pay money to see their full statistical information.
That’s great but we’re not CNET or the Wall Street Journal, so we’ll take whatever pieces of data we can get for free, thank you.
So while the data may appear slightly different between the two sources, the overall picture of the top five market share is not drastically different between the two according to ConcievablyTech.
According to StatCounter, Chrome was up again for the month of August, turning in a share of 10.78% up from 9.88% in July. Internet Explorer was down 51.34% in August from 52.68% in July. Firefox was up slightly 31.09% from 30.69% in July. Here’s a graph.
By the way, CNET has a full analysis of the NetApplications data here complete with a fancy graph. It probably cost them $5,000 to produce that one blog post. Enjoy their spoils!
