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Akamai just recently released their statistics, which shows a completely different picture: http://www.akamai.com/io
it's interesting to see that that people use IE at work, and Chrome at home (see the 2 day distortions every 5 days)!
Didn't this happen last month?
http://gs.statcounter.com/#browser-ww-daily-20120531-2012062...
Here's another good one that splits the IE line into IE 6/7/8 lines, and the Firefox line into 3.6/4/5+ lines:
http://gs.statcounter.com/#browser_version_partially_combine...
Also be sure to check out the plurality-browser-share-by-country view via the world map:
http://gs.statcounter.com/#browser-ww-daily-20120531-2012062...
Granted, it's hard to know who to trust regarding browser market share stats. But more data points are always useful.
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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?
> what's the more popular browser? In the most general of ways, the browser more people use. Which in this case, via Akamai stats, is clearly IE.
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?
It might be better than IE in that regard, but it doesn't have any huge advantage over firefox.
This graph is about a month old at this point, it should update with the newest stats tomorrow. Until then, you can see the day-by-day stats for the past month here: http://gs.statcounter.com/#browser-ww-daily-20120531-2012062... Here's another good one that splits the IE line into IE 6/7/8 lines, and the Firefox line into 3.6/4/5+ lines: http://gs.statcounter.com/#browser_version_partially_combine... Also be sure to…
I'm switching back to Safari when Mountain Lion is released. The unified search/address bar was the only thing holding me back.
This graph is about a month old at this point, it should update with the newest stats tomorrow. Until then, you can see the day-by-day stats for the past month here: http://gs.statcounter.com/#browser-ww-daily-20120531-2012062... Here's another good one that splits the IE line into IE 6/7/8 lines, and the Firefox line into 3.6/4/5+ lines: http://gs.statcounter.com/#browser_version_partially_combine... Also be sure to…
Thanks for the links - it's incredible to see how much Chrome peaks during the weekends at the expense of IE!
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> what's the more popular browser? In the most general of ways, the browser more people use. Which in this case, via Akamai stats, is clearly IE.
So Chrome is the most used browser and IE is the browser used by the most people. Which is the more profitable status?
It depends.
Are you selling ads by pagehits? Then the former. Are you selling user info by number of users? Then the latter.
(And aside from ads and personal info, browsers don't make money in a direct way.)