Chrome is used more than Firefox, IE, and Opera combined

[Matsuda]

Social analytics firm Shareaholic today released browser share data for the year 2013 so far. There are quite a lot of figures to go over, but the biggest trend that immediately jumps out is Chrome’s utter dominance.

In September, Chrome was used more than Firefox, Internet Explorer, and Opera combined. If you combine Chrome and the Android stock browser, Google’s browsers have greater usage share than Firefox and Safari combined.




Here are Shareaholic’s three biggest takeaways from the results:

• The top four browsers are used by more than 80 percent of the market. Last month, Google Chrome held the first place spot by capturing more than a third of the market with 34.68 percent market share. This was double Firefox’s market share (16.60 percent), which came in second place, followed closely by Safari (16.15 percent) and Internet Explorer (15.62 percent).
  
• Only the stock Android browser and Chrome experienced double-digit growth.
  
• Half of the browsers tracked were in decline. Internet Explorer was hit the hardest, followed by Opera, Firefox, and Opera Mini.

The last two points are percentages of percentages, however, which is not exactly the best way to measure growth. Nevertheless, it’s clear that Chrome is the real winner here and Internet Explorer is taking the biggest hit for it.

Yet as we report every month, IE is still the most popular browser by a wide margin, according to Net Applications. So what gives?

Usage versus users

For the last nine months, Shareaholic tracked 250 million users visiting its network of 200,000 publishers. Net Applications captures data from 160 million unique visitors each month by monitoring some 40,000 websites for its clients. It’s also worth noting that Shareaholic is including mobile browsers in its data while Net Applications keeps desktop and mobile stats separate.

Shareaholic’s data encompasses the usage of browsers by measuring how many webpages are viewed by each browser. Net Applications meanwhile looks atusers by measuring how many people using each browser are viewing webpages.

For example, say five people use IE to view a single page and one person uses Chrome to view 25 pages. Net Applications will show IE having a greater market share than Chrome while Shareaholic will show the reverse. That’s a bit of an oversimplification of course, but the point is to get an idea of the different ways to measure browser share.

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[geeteam]

True... NO 2 WAYS about that... you can check that for urself...

[ramiz0]

i like firefox chrome is my 2nd choice

[w9999]

i like firefox chrome is my 2nd choice

me also.

[TheAslan]

Chromium (trunk) FTW!

[Airstream_Bill]

I guess it depends on how one looks at it or where you look.

http://betanews.com/2013/08/02/internet-explorer-remains-three-of-the-top-five-web-browsers/

Edited October 24, 2013 by Airstream_Bill

[Matsuda]

I hope you do not really believe that. You need to do some research. It isn't even close to being at the top.

This what you posted is from august (old). the latest is from september and already posted here: http://www.nsaneforums.com/topic/188059-internet-explorer-10-close-to-becoming-the-number-one-browser-worldwide/

I do not know if you're seeing right, but this data is from Shareaholic, not Net Applications. (You has edited the post, but i saw)

[Ambrocious]

If Mozilla coaxed all those other comapnies that was coaxed by Google with money to implement the Chrome browser into a LOT of freware, this wouldn't be the case. It's simple, you rig a thing like this by putting the Chrome installer into a ton of freeware which about 85 percent of all people don't seem to know how to "uncheck" a box to say "no I don't want the Chrome browser". This is a fact, one has only to go out and download a bunch of freeware, it comes loaded on TONS of things.

On the other hand and might I add the polar opposite, Mozilla to my knowlege has not been put into any freeware as a promotional browser. Correct me if Im wrong but I personally have not seen it.

Here's a good analogy:

Bob owns a huge restraunt chain that spreads across the world and is widelly eaten from by millions of people. Timmy owns another company almost as large in the sense that it too is world wide. The difference is that Bob was funded to spread his comapany world wide by a very whealthy bank so people were paid off to vacate thier small business so the big dog can come in. Timmy isn't funded by something as extravagant as a huge bank, which in comaprison to his competitor Bob, Timmy is being funded by consumers like you only. Timmy isn't getting money from a known source that also funds up and coming poloticians that "must" win. Timmy plays fair and at heart, he is loved by his people because they overall don't play dirty. Bob is successful too but not because he is completely loved for his food chain..sure there are lots of "Bob's Fried Burgers" now but the quality has went down overall as well as the quantity and they have poor public relations with thier customers.

Bob is Google which is a privacy intrusive system that really could care less if you are mad that you are being watched while you get undressed. Timmy is Mozilla which is trying to stand for the people, as far as I have seen and hope to be correct about, Mozilla is a truly good company at heart and deserves to grow but remember to stay humble so as to not get a big head like Google.

Edited October 25, 2013 by Ambrocious

[0veR]

Yeah i agree with you Ambrocious. Almost every freeware software installer have Google shit to install!

Even when you wisit Google homepage with other browser its ask you to install Google chrome!

[Rivenson]

If Mozilla coaxed all those other comapnies that was coaxed by Google with money to implement the Chrome browser into a LOT of freware, this wouldn't be the case. It's simple, you rig a thing like this by putting the Chrome installer into a ton of freeware which about 85 percent of all people don't seem to know how to "uncheck" a box to say "no I don't want the Chrome browser". This is a fact, one has only to go out and download a bunch of freeware, it comes loaded on TONS of things.

On the other hand and might I add the polar opposite, Mozilla to my knowlege has not been put into any freeware as a promotional browser. Correct me if Im wrong but I personally have not seen it.

Here's a good analogy:

Bob owns a huge restraunt chain that spreads across the world and is widelly eaten from by millions of people. Timmy owns another company almost as large in the sense that it too is world wide. The difference is that Bob was funded to spread his comapany world wide by a very whealthy bank so people were paid off to vacate thier small business so the big dog can come in. Timmy isn't funded by something as extravagant as a huge bank, which in comaprison to his competitor Bob, Timmy is being funded by consumers like you only. Timmy isn't getting money from a known source that also funds up and coming poloticians that "must" win. Timmy plays fair and at heart, he is loved by his people because they overall don't play dirty. Bob is successful too but not because he is completely loved for his food chain..sure there are lots of "Bob's Fried Burgers" now but the quality has went down overall as well as the quantity and they have poor public relations with thier customers.

Bob is Google which is a privacy intrusive system that really could care less if you are mad that you are being watched while you get undressed. Timmy is Mozilla which is trying to stand for the people, as far as I have seen and hope to be correct about, Mozilla is a truly good company at heart and deserves to grow but remember to stay humble so as to not get a big head like Google.

^^^ That's exactly the case....

regardless if chrome is good browser or not..

Overall my browsing experience is better with firefox.... :king:

[Lyon275]

I like them both :D

Chrome is buggy for me right now ... Sometimes it freezes for 5,6 seconds ( happens often ) :think:

Firefox for me (at the moment :D )

:cheers:

[Bergo]

Firefox 22.0 and Google Chrome 28 :)