Google Chrome becomes world’s top web browser
GOOGLE CHROME has surpassed Internet Explorer as the most used web browser, according to data firm StatCounter.
For the week of 14-20 May, Chrome was the world’s number one web browser, leaving usual top spot hogger Internet Explorer lagging behind.
The Google site first pipped Window’s browser two months ago, when Chrome topped the league for one day, on Sunday 18 March.
But the win was shortlived. At the time, Statcounter said it noticed a trend of Chrome peaking on weekends when consumers were free to choose their own browser, unlike on weekdays due to the majority of offices employing Internet Explorer.
“This was the first time we’ve seen Chrome top the tables for a whole week,” Statcounter chief executive Aodhan Cullen told City A.M.
Chrome’s market share rose to 32.8 per cent last week, compared to Explorer’s 31.9 per cent.
And it seems as if Chrome is set to stay on top. The Google browser has been steadily climbing over the last two years, while Explorer has been stumbling along a downwards trajectory.
Ranked third is Firefox, which took a 25.5 per cent share of the market last week. Chrome soared past the Mozilla browser in October.
Google first launched Chrome as a beta version for Microsoft Windows in September 2008, before releasing the stable browser to the public in December of that year.
StatCounter bases its research on a sample exceeding 15bn page views per month collected from a network of more than 3m websites.