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Chrome hits 17-month low, Windows 8 still only creeping upward

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Re: Chrome hits 17-month low, Windows 8 still only creeping upward

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Post by justinschuh »

I've never been able to make sense of Net Market Share's numbers or why they're so wildly divergent from nearly every other source. Just take a look at the big ones listed on Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_web_browsers#Sum...

The other stats sources consistently align in a pretty narrow range of around 2%-7% for any given browser. But Net Market Share consistently shows Chrome as more than 10% lower, and IE more than 20% above what every other stats provider is seeing. The only thing I can figure is that their sample base is just too narrow to avoid what seems to clearly be a severe systemic bias.

Re: Chrome hits 17-month low, Windows 8 still only creeping upward

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Post by xutopia »

justinschuh wrote: post #3

I've never been able to make sense of Net Market Share's numbers or why they're so wildly divergent from nearly every other source. Just take a look at the big ones listed on Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_web_browsers#Sum... The other stats sources consistently align in a pretty narrow range of around 2%-7% for any given browser. But Net Market Share consistently shows Chrome as more than 10%…

I just started a conversation on Twitter with the author.

https://twitter.com/garyharan/status/307905674279518208

Re: Chrome hits 17-month low, Windows 8 still only creeping upward

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Post by Samuel_Michon »

I'm missing the most important graph: combined mobile & desktop browser market share.

Mobile phones, tablets and PMPs (like the iPod touch) increasingly replace desktop computers and notebooks for browsing the web.

According to Statcounter [1], 14% of all web traffic in the US comes from mobile clients. Compare that to 8% a year a go and 3% three years a go. In Africa [2], mobile already makes up 18% of web clients.

Granted, Statcounter is just one source, but I think it shows the trend quite well.

[1] http://gs.statcounter.com/#mobile_vs_desktop-US-monthly-2008...

[2] http://gs.statcounter.com/#mobile_vs_desktop-af-monthly-2008...

Re: Chrome hits 17-month low, Windows 8 still only creeping upward

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Post by danmaz74 »

After years of the highest satisfaction with Chrome on Windows, lately I've been experiencing many annoying crashes. This is also true for some people I know.

For myself, it might depend on the fact that I'm using more extensions now, but that isn't true, for example, for my father.

I don't want to imply anything, but this reminds me of when I switched from Netscape Navigator to IE back in the day, not because IE was "better" (AFAIR IE was an exact copy of Navigator, just with a big "e" instead of a big "N" in the upper right corner) but because Navigator was becoming more and more unstable.

Re: Chrome hits 17-month low, Windows 8 still only creeping upward

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Post by nixarn »

xutopia wrote: post #6
justinschuh wrote: post #3

I've never been able to make sense of Net Market Share's numbers or why they're so wildly divergent from nearly every other source. Just take a look at the big ones listed on Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_web_browsers#Sum... The other stats sources consistently align in a pretty narrow range of around 2%-7% for any given browser. But Net Market Share consistently shows Chrome as more than 10%…

I just started a conversation on Twitter with the author. https://twitter.com/garyharan/status/307905674279518208

Yeah, weird stats. I checked some other sources:

http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_stats.asp … (IE 14%, Chrome 48%)

http://gs.statcounter.com/ (IE 29%, Chrome 37%)

My own website with 10k+ daily visitors has IE 14% and 35% Chrome

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