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Akamai just recently released their statistics, which shows a completely different picture: http://www.akamai.com/io
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Thanks for the links - it's incredible to see how much Chrome peaks during the weekends at the expense of IE!
It really demonstrates (imho) the technical lag of companies: During the week people are browsing at work and it looks like many are still shackled to IE. But on the weekend they go home and use what they want, and that is clearly chrome. Kind of amazing to visualize at this granularity what pops out.
Hasn't this been debunked? http://windowsteamblog.com/ie/b/ie/archive/2012/03/18/unders...
Yes, your link has been debunked. http://gs.statcounter.com/press/open-letter-ms
http://mozakai.blogspot.com/2012/06/statcounter-and-statisti...
I don't know which source of browser market share is more reliable - no one does, really - and StatCounter made some valid points as well in their rebuttal. But to see them misunderstand statistics like that is cause for doubt.
Wonder if this will allow Microsoft in Europe to get rid of the EU imposed browser select dialog at first boot.
Akamai just recently released their statistics, which shows a completely different picture: http://www.akamai.com/io
1. I don't know anyone who owns any Windows Phone up through Phone 7. 2. I don't know anyone who knows how to use a 3g / 4g hotspot who would be dumb enough to still use IE.
http://gs.statcounter.com/#browser-ww-monthly-201203-201205-...
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It really demonstrates (imho) the technical lag of companies: During the week people are browsing at work and it looks like many are still shackled to IE. But on the weekend they go home and use what they want, and that is clearly chrome. Kind of amazing to visualize at this granularity what pops out.
It might also be that on weekends there are fewer internet users in general, but with a higher percentage of the more technically aware ones...
One of his links, the by version: http://gs.statcounter.com/#browser_version_partially_combine...
Has some interesting information that I think sheds more light on this:
IE8 and IE7 both have weekend dips. (IE6's usage is too small to matter anymore). (IE8 dips almost 25% of it's total, IE7 significantly dips almost 50% but it's already a tiny amount).
However, Chrome, IE9, Safari iPad all have weekend peaks. Even Safari itself has an almost unnoticeable uptick on the weekend.
This leads me to believe that almost 4% of all internet users use IE7/8 at work and use to Chrome/IE9/iPad on the weekend.
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Thanks for the links - it's incredible to see how much Chrome peaks during the weekends at the expense of IE!
It really demonstrates (imho) the technical lag of companies: During the week people are browsing at work and it looks like many are still shackled to IE. But on the weekend they go home and use what they want, and that is clearly chrome. Kind of amazing to visualize at this granularity what pops out.
At least some of that traffic comes from preinstalled OEM copies, which Google pays the OEMs for having Chrome preinstalled as the default browser.
Also, it comes bundled with things like Java, Acrobat Reader,CCleaner, Divx Player, RealPlayer, Avast and Flash etc., so if people just click next, which most tend to do, they end up with Chrome on their machine. I think it used to come with Skype before Microsoft bought it.
http://mobilesociety.typepad.com/mobile_life/2011/09/outrage...
http://www.ghacks.net/2012/02/26/avast-7-will-install-google...
http://www.osnews.com/story/25184/Adobe_Tricks_Users_into_Do...
http://www.salsitasoft.com/2011/09/23/wonder-how-chrome-is-g...
Not to mention heavily pushing Chrome on Google properties like the search page, Youtube, Gmail etc. etc.
Google chat once hung in my Gmail tab in Opera, and when I reloaded it I got the message which said something like "Slow browser? Switch to Chrome.."
So Google's effectively buying marketshare with their search profits to cut out the middlemen like Firefox and Opera. Browsers like Firefox, Opera do not have the resources to push their browser this way and get people to try them.
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So Chrome is the most used browser and IE is the browser used by the most people. Which is the more profitable status?
> 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.)
Not entirely true. The Chrome Webstore makes some money, though admittedly not much.
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?
In Europe, Chrome has a small lead. In Asia, a medium lead. In South America, a large lead. In Africa, both are dwarfed by Firefox.
One possible unfounded speculation would be that it is connected to the age of the widespread adoption of the Internet. In North America, most users have likely been on the net for a long time and therefore use older, more established technology. In India, Internet access is likely a new thing to many people (and businesses), and they are therefore less "invested" in older programs.