Tuesday, May 22, 2012

Google Chrome is the Most Popular Web Browser – StatCounter


According to the latest Global Stats from StatCounter, Google Chrome is now the most popular Web browser worldwide. Google Chrome surpassed Microsoft Internet Explorer for the first time with 32.76 percent market share, while Internet Explorer dipped to 31.94 percent.

Source: StatCounter Global Stats – Browser Market Share(http://gs.statcounter.com/#browser-ww-monthly-201205-201205-bar)

StatCounter is a free, online visitor stats tool.The StatCounter Global Stats are based on aggregate data collected by StatCounter on asample exceeding 15 billion pageviews per month collected from across the StatCounternetwork of more than 3 million websites.

Last year, Internet Explorer was leading the web browser market share with 43 percent, followed by Mozilla Firefox with 29 percent, and Chrome at the third position with 19 percent.
Even though Chrome is now leading worldwide, Internet Explorer still leads in the USA with 37 percent, while Chrome is only 23 percent, followed by Mozilla Firefox 22 percent.