Tag Archives: NetApplications
StatCounter: Chrome Continues Rise, IE Slips in Market Share
Posted on 01. Sep, 2010 by Daniel Cawrey. 
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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 Market Share Tails Off, Depending on Data Source
Posted on 06. Aug, 2010 by Daniel Cawrey. 1 Comments
It’s really hard to track down correct browser statistics.
Depending on who you trust for browser information, the situation gets muddy very quickly on what is going on. According to NetApplications, Chrome’s browser share actually went down, but StatCounter is showing a month over month gain in share.
ConcievablyTech’s Kurt Baake has written a great article on the subject, and it looks like they are leaning toward the StatCounter data. However, major publications such as the Wall Street Journal still rely on NetApplications.
It’s hard for me to believe that Chrome’s market share actually went down given that Google is marketing their browser all over the web. But as TheNextWeb points out, sales of Windows 7 has been strong, and that has led to more use of Internet Explorer 8 that comes with the OS – and is not all that terrible of a browser, mind you.
Anyways, can we find a freaking consensus on this information? That would be really nice.
thechromesource Weekend: Links for 8/1/10
Posted on 01. Aug, 2010 by Daniel Cawrey. 2 Comments
Here are some more details about the new features that are supposedly coming to Gmail ahead of Chrome OS.
If the amount of money Google has in the bank was divided up by its employees, each one would be worth $1.4 million.
NetApplications reports that Chrome and Firefox’s July share went down slightly, while Safari and Internet Explorer went up.
Will Google’s pay wall, called Newspass, be successful for traditional media outlets?
LG will release a tablet product running Android in the fourth quarter.
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.
WSJ: Chrome Browser Now at 7.24% Market Share
Posted on 08. Jul, 2010 by Daniel Cawrey. 5 Comments
Yesterday, the Wall Street Journal reported that Google’s Chrome browser worldwide share is now at 7.24%. This is impressive to consider since Chrome was launched in September of 2008 and has blazed through versions and innovative features with new releases, currently at version 5.
The question at hand, now that Chrome is at number three of all browsers, is if it can challenge Firefox. NetApplications, the source for the Wall Street Journal Data, puts Firefox in second place to Internet Explorer at 23.81%. In an interview with Gizmodo, Mozilla Open Source Evangelist Christopher Blizzard said that the threat of Chrome overtaking Firefox does not seem to be one of his concerns. In fact, he believes that the fact Mozilla focuses solely on the browser will give his organization competitive advantage.
“What we’re gonna have, I think, with Firefox 4 is that we’re gonna have a Javascript engine that’s a generation ahead of everybody else, which will be pretty interesting. We’re the only one that makes browsers! We don’t sell ads, we don’t make operating systems. We don’t sell hardware. We just make browsers,” Blizzard told Gizmodo’s Matt Buchanon.
And in terms of competing directly against Google, “As long as we stand behind the technology that we have, and continue to improve and invest in it as a mechanism for getting the larger goals done, we’re gonna be fine. I’m not that worried about competing with them.”
That’s good to hear Mozilla has no qualms going up against Chrome. It will be for the best, in the long run, for there to be competing web browsers pushing technology forward – more like web platforms than browsers at this point actually. Firefox’s beta releases of version 4 have shown that they aren’t a afraid of taking something in Chrome and making it a feature in their browser to remain a worthy rival. Anyways, remember when it was only Microsoft that dominated the browser market? It was a black hole in terms of web innovation. Plus IE was hacked a lot, not really a fun time to remember.
By the way, NetApplications by all accounts must be the authority on browser share. In the past, there have been disputes over the validity of calculating browser share worldwide, but major publications seem to quote NetApplications most often in browser research.
