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Re: Chrome now the most popular browser

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Post by harshreality »

judofyr wrote: post #7

Akamai just recently released their statistics, which shows a completely different picture: http://www.akamai.com/io

Akamai is probably trying to identify unique sessions or clients, and showing stats based on that.

Statcounter is tracking browser usage roughly by percentage of requests. They do some corrections, for instance they try to account for Chrome's prefetching.

More people (or more computers) might use IE as their default browser, but if Chrome is responsible for more activity (requests), what's the more popular browser?

Re: Chrome now the most popular browser

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Post by dbaupp »

harshreality wrote: post #11
judofyr wrote: post #7

Akamai just recently released their statistics, which shows a completely different picture: http://www.akamai.com/io

Akamai is probably trying to identify unique sessions or clients, and showing stats based on that. Statcounter is tracking browser usage roughly by percentage of requests. They do some corrections, for instance they try to account for Chrome's prefetching. More people (or more computers) might use IE as their default browser, but if Chrome is responsible for more activity (requests), what's the more popular browser?

> Chrome is responsible for more activity (requests)

Does anyone know if the prefetching/prerendering Chrome does is a significant portion of web traffic? Because that could easily skew request-based analytics.

Re: Chrome now the most popular browser

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Post by geon »

femto113 wrote: post #12

Poking around by individual country the only large one I found where Chrome leads is India. Anyone have sauce on why Chrome is so popular there? Are they big enough to skew the whole world?

> why Chrome is so popular there?

Could it be because it has to run on cheap hardware? Is there any more lightweight browser?

Re: Chrome now the most popular browser

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Post by noahc »

geon wrote: post #15
femto113 wrote: post #12

Poking around by individual country the only large one I found where Chrome leads is India. Anyone have sauce on why Chrome is so popular there? Are they big enough to skew the whole world?

> why Chrome is so popular there? Could it be because it has to run on cheap hardware? Is there any more lightweight browser?

Ive found uzbl to be pretty good and lightweight. http://uzbl.org/
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