According to Net Applications and their Top Browser Share Trends, Googles Chrome browser has increased it’s global browser market share to over 3%, a 285% increase in just a year. Comparing Chrome with Apples Safari browser there’s not alot between them with Safari currently holding just above 4% of the global web browser market. Still ahead of the competition is Internet Explorer with a collective share of around 65% but as the following figures show they have lost a sizeable chunk of the market.
12 month global web browser market share trend
Graph shows Internet Explorer is still way ahead of the competition but is slowly losing it’s dominant market share.
Browser winners and losers
Winners
Mozilla Firefox
Firefox is actually the biggest winner in the web browser wars in the last 12 months taking another 2.54% of the global web browser market, a yearly change of 112%.
Google Chrome
In the last 12 months Chrome has increased it’s global web browser market share by 285% from it’s position 12 months ago. It currently holds 3.17% of the global web browser market, a 2.06% increase.
Apple Safari
Apples Safari browser has also had a great year and has seen a 137% increase in it’s market share from this point last year. Safari is now the third most popular web browser with a 4.24% market share.
Losers
Internet Explorer
Internet Explorer is still the dominant force in the web browser market but hasn’t had the best year, losing nearly 6% of the market share to it’s competitors and having just 92% of the market compared to last year. Collectively Internet Explorer holds 65.71% of the market.
Summary
Internet Explorer is still number one in the global web browser market but has lost 6% share. Firefox has made the biggest gain and now holds almost a quarter share of the market. Google Chrome is the best performer with a year increase of 285% and now holds 3.17% of the market with IE, Firefox and Safari only holding more of a share of the market.
October 16th, 2009 at 12:36 pm
I think the greatest thing here is now over 30% of users are NOT using IE!!
October 16th, 2009 at 2:29 pm
I wonder what will happen to this number as more and more people will be asked to choose their browser as a result of the EU ruling on Microsoft’s monopoly?
Will browser names such as ‘Google Chrome’ or ‘Apple Safari’ help increase the perceived value of those choices over ‘Microsoft Internet Explorer’?
Will be interesting to see what happens then
November 3rd, 2009 at 2:01 pm
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