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Chrome Has A Good Lead Over Other Browsers: Report
According to a report released by sharing analytics company Shareaholic, Google’s web browsing products have been putting on a increasing lead compared to other browsers in the ecosystem. The report has tracked 250 million users and their browser data across 200,000 publishers. The numbers that emerge point to a market leading position for Chrome along with decline for IE, Firefox and others over the period of 9 months.
While Chrome, Firefox, Safari and IE remain the most popular browsers among the lot, differences in market share have been growing in a pronounced manner and this report says that half of these other browsers were in decline.
1. The top 4 browsers mentioned above cover about 80% of the market. Google Chrome currently has the number 1 spot with a market share of 34.68%. Firefox came in second with a market share of 16.60%. These both are followed by Safari and IE respectively at 16.15% and 15.62%.
2. If you look at the above figure and combine the figures of Chrome and the stock Android browsers, then they are bigger than all of Firefox, Safari and IE combined. The stock Android browser has seen a growth of 26% from January till September. Chrome grew by 15.64% in that timeframe.
3. The report also suggests that the other popular browsers are in decline. Firefox usage is dropping and this reflects in the 11.6% drop in their market share. Opera lost 16.65% of its market share and Opera Mini lost 6.23%. IE has lost the most market share among the rest shrinking by 23.81%.
These numbers and analysis are based on a subset of Internet traffic and browser usage and thus cannot be a definitive measure of growth or decline. However, it is indicative of the growing usage of Chrome compared to other browsers. If this is true then Google has an advantage, not only over other in terms of usage and market share, but also from a technical perspective. The company has been developing technology only mean for Chrome, such as the Dart programming language which is supposed to be a replacement for Javascript. If the number of Chrome users increase even more, then Dart will automatically take precedence over Javascript as the default language of the web.
Source | Shareaholic Blog
Via | The Next Web
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