The launch of Google Chrome has really changed the web browser landscape. Thanks in no small part to its great speed, Google Chrome has gone from nothing to being incredibly popular. Just how popular? Google Chrome has passed Internet Explorer to become the most-used browser in the world, according to StatCounter’s page views metric. Google Chrome has 32 percent of traffic, IE has 31 percent, and Firefox is holding steady at 25 percent. Safari is roughly 14 percent and Safari is about 1.75 percent of all web traffic.
Interestingly, IE is still the most-used browser in the United States, even if it has bumped IE to second internationally. I’m sure that has to do with the growth of computer use internationally and Google’s international marketing efforts to promote Chrome in other countries, as well as the stranglehold Windows has here in the United States; after all, for most older versions of Windows, IE is the default browser and most people are very lazy. I’m sure a comparison of install bases still favors IE (because so many places/websites still make you use IE to access their features, like banks and schools), but Chrome seems to be more popular in terms of general usage, and that should be important.
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