Tag Archives: Chrome browser market share
And the Rise Continues: Google Chrome Sees Usage Increase During April
Posted on 02. May, 2011 by Daniel Cawrey. 
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Has this ever been seen before in the browser wars? When you look at the following graph it seems almost unreal. Chrome has seemingly come out of nowhere to become a major player in the browser market. Google’s goal of pushing web innovation has brought us to a point where it may no longer be an early-adopter type of software application for much longer.
This is data that is compiled by StatCounter, which offers these browser stats for free for anyone to look at. It’s one of the reasons why I use it, although please do note that other data aggregators may have different numbers. According to StatCounter, IE is at the top with a 44.52% market share, Firefox is second with 29.67% and Chrome comes in third at 18.29%. That’s up roughly a percentage point from last month, when Chrome was at 17.37%.
Chrome Browser Market Share at 13.35%
Posted on 01. Dec, 2010 by Daniel Cawrey. 2 Comments
November is over, and the tally for browser usage is in. In first is Internet Explorer with 48.16%, Firefox with 31.17%, Chrome with 13.35%, Safari with 4.7% and Opera with 2.01%. Here is a look at the graph to see how each stacks up against one another.
Do you think that Chrome will surpass Firefox anytime soon?
via StatCounter
StatCounter: Chrome Continues Rise, IE Slips in Market Share
Posted on 01. Sep, 2010 by Daniel Cawrey. 0 Comments
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!
Chrome Browser MSI Now Available
Posted on 09. Aug, 2010 by Daniel Cawrey. 23 Comments
Enterprise users rejoice: Chrome is now being offered as an MSI you can download directly from Google.
An MSI is a file extension in Windows that allows enterprises to easily package a piece of software and deploy remotely. Having an MSI for Chrome makes it easy for large companies to quickly install it to thousands of workstations. Depending on businesses perspective on Chrome, this may help to boost the browser’s market share once Google decides to promote this.
If your company is making the switch over to Chrome and deploying it to a large amount of workstations, give us a shout. We’d like to hear about companies using Chrome on a large-scale basis to see how the deployment went, as well as the motiviation behind doing so. Are you just trying Chrome out in your organization, or are you making the switch because you think Chrome is the best browser? Let us know.
w3schools: Chrome Adoption Growing Fast
Posted on 12. Jul, 2010 by Daniel Cawrey. 0 Comments
Back in January, I remarked about how quickly Chrome browser had been gaining share of the early adopter market. Back then, 10% of those who used the w3schools.com web developer site were browsing with Chrome. Now six months later that figure has jumped to over fifteen percent. Here is the month by month stats for 2010.
Those growth numbers are pretty impressive, don’t you think? They are markedly different from other browsers, whose numbers do move nearly as fast as Chrome.
So the data here tells one that those who develop for the web are increasingly interested in at least checking out what Chrome is all about. Recently Chris Blizzard from Mozilla told Gizmodo that they aren’t afraid of Chrome, and the data here suggests he’s right about that notion: Firefox has not lost any share to Chrome, it has mostly come at Microsoft’s expense.
NetApplications is reporting that worldwide use of Chrome is somewhere around 7%, so those who are using it to develop and otherwise create for the web are double that amount. That seems pretty logical to me.
