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W3schools: Chrome Has Surpassed Ten Percent Share

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Wikipedia has an aggregate table of several market share companies estimates: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_web_browsers#Sum...

Currently, most put Chrome at between 5% - 6%.

Wikipedia also publishes its own stats, though they take some time to update them: http://stats.wikimedia.org/wikimedia/squids/SquidReportClien...

I run one of the sites that Wiki page aggregates, and also put together a trend graph they don't include, which shows Chrome's market share changes over time:

http://www.w3counter.com/trends

This is based on the aggregate visits to over 30,000 websites.

It's up to 9.8% of visits to Kongregate. Here's our browser share vs a year ago. IE lost a lot, Firefox a little, Chrome and Safari both made big gains.

Internet Explorer

Jan-10 41.8%

Jan-09 50.1%

Firefox

Jan-10 38.2%

Jan-09 40.2%

Chrome

Jan-10 9.8%

Jan-09 3.0%

Safari

Jan-10 7.5%

Jan-09 3.9%

Opera

Jan-10 2.4%

Jan-09 2.4%

What's interesting for HTML5 web developers is the rendering engines, which combines Chrome and Safari: IE(6/7/8 mélange): 41% Gecko: 38% Webkit: 17%.

So standards compliance is becoming more and more popular.

IE should be Trident.

Trident: 41%

Gecko: 38%

Webkit: 17%

Let's take in mind that the first sentence acts as a disclaimer

"The web developer-focused w3schools releases browser statistics every month."

This is the last year on Mibbit (main client). http://mibbit.com/browserShare.png

What was surprising to me is that chrome is stealing share from IE. Which is fantastic news! Course the other theory would be that firefox is stealing share from IE, but Chrome is stealing share from firefox at about the same rate.

But in any event, less IE is good for the web.

> But in any event, less IE is good for the web.

My hatred for IE 6 notwithstanding, I'd phrase it: browser diversity is good for the web. I see nothing wrong about using IE 8 (although it's not my personal choice), because thanks to competition it's actually a decent browser.

Agreed @ Browser diversity.

I disagree about IE8 being a decent browser, but that's just my take on it. Safari,chrome,opera,firefox, all are in a different league to IE.

There's nothing decent about IE8 -- and competition doesn't really apply to it since it's installed (and upgraded) by default on the majority of PC's. Since nobody chooses IE, there is no real incentive to make it competitive.

Have you actually used IE8 as your main browser for any length of time? It's actually quite good. Certainly better than FireFox+Firebug for development, with its proper javascript debugger.

If it weren't for Chrome, I'd be using it today.

I love Chrome. I installed it as the default browser on my company's Terminal Server/Citrix for our 50 users. It is a bit difficult to set it up in TS environment for all users but once setup, it works great. When 15-20 people had IE open with our intranet site, the server spiked to 60-70% usage. With Chrome, it's barely 20%.

Could you please explain why the choice of browser affect the server load?

By running on the said server, I suppose. It is a terminal server we are talking there, not some web server.

Because for whatever reason he has people accessing the intranet via a browser running in terminal services/citrix -- meaning all of those browsers sessions are running on the server and the clients are simply presented with a view of what's going on.

I know all of you hackers love your Chrome, but when I tried to switch, it was a total bust for me on a Macbook Pro.

Chrome is indeed much faster than Firefox, but it is embarrassingly bad at running Google applications... GMail and Docs are both heavily bugged in Chrome, and I depend on those daily. The exact moment I switched was when Chrome wouldn't let me send an email in GMail because it would always want to scroll up to the top of any GMail page... a really bizarre bug.

Other annoyances that switched me back to FireFox:

* Chrome crashed on me several times

* I had to put up with annoying ads

* The JS debugging tools are alien to me

And also, quite honestly, it was frickin' annoying to re-login to a billion websites. If they are importing my settings and such from FF, would it be insecure or some such to import my passwords?

The site I write for isn't particularly addressed to geeks. It got about 14 million pageviews in January, and Chrome represents about 5.8% of visitors.

Conclusion: The next wave of web developers pick Chrome.

You can't just dismiss it like that. Techies are early adopters. Chrome is smashing through and stealing market share from every other browser. Check your own stats. Check others.

Does Chroem work well on the Mac yet? The two times I tried it was terribly slow, especially in scrolling.

It works just fine. I've been using Chrome on Mac since they began releasing stable ones a few months back. Haven't looked back (I also use it on every other OS, so I may be bias.)

Works fine for me. Scrolling is just as smooth as Safari, if not smoother.

I figure Google has released a browser simply (as with their Google toolbar) so they can spider all the 'dark web' pages everyone visits. Evidence? Look at all those eBay search results when eBay prevents spidering.

Where is eBay preventing spidering? Their robots.txt doesn't block off anything significant, and while it says that robots should ask permission Google would certainly have that. I also don't remember any issues crawling it with the startup I work at except that the site is massive and extremely time-sensitive.

I remember a few years ago, an auction aggregator tried to spider eBay (just incrementing the auction ID) and eBay basically sued them, or blocked it off - either way, the aggregator went out of business.

But that was 2001. So I guess things have changed (and thanks for informing me).

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