w3schools: Chrome Has Surpassed Ten Percent Share

Posted on 04. Feb, 2010 by Daniel Cawrey in News

Google-Chrome The web developer-focused w3schools releases browser statistics every month. Recently, they published their figures for January. Fueled by the movement of Chrome 4 into a stable version along with the increased media coverage of Chrome OS and Google’s competition with the other tech titans, Chrome has moved past the ten percent share mark, registering a 10.8% share which is up a solid point from December, at 9.8%.

Mind you, w3schools.com is not any sort of official standard for browser usage. However, the 9 million monthly users of the site are forward-thinking technologically minded people who are using the site to find the latest and greatest in terms of web development resources. With that being said, there is no doubt that w3schools caters more towards early adopters of technology, but the fact that Chrome browser is now in use for over ten percent of those looking for web development resources shows that some other browsers are going to begin to slowly get sqeezed out of their share of the market.

And to make sure that these are not the only statistics for this article, Netmarketshare is reporting that Chrome browser usage is at 5.22% in January, up from 4.63% in December. These stats are supposedly representative for the entire web, although there must be some give or take considering the web’s global audience. Regardless, you can read about their methodology for measuring stats here.

For January, thechromesource had 44.1% that used Firefox, 34.5% users with Chrome, 9% with Safari and 6.6% with Internet Explorer.

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9 Responses to “w3schools: Chrome Has Surpassed Ten Percent Share”

Dinu

04. Feb, 2010

I am waiting for the day when Chrome overtakes IE and Firefox !!
Alain

06. Feb, 2010

I’m glad when someone using IE switch to Chrome.
I’m sad when someone using firefox does the same.
Ultimately Chrome serves the purpose of Google not the people.
Maybe for now the interests of Google and the people are the same, but how long will that last?
liero

06. Feb, 2010

opera > chrome > firefox > … > ie
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07. Feb, 2010

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ESN

08. Feb, 2010

Chrome is getting more and more popular among web users. According to my blog’s analytics for Jan, 12.63% of visitors use chrome. But my blog is targeted for web professionals, so they are quite internet savvy and aren’t stuck with IE.
SM

09. Feb, 2010

Google will enslave the world:)
Daniel Cawrey

11. Feb, 2010

Is anyone really “stuck” with IE?
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winston

09. Mar, 2010

Chrome made a big step for the last 4-5 months.