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dallas on 05 August 2013
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ArnoldRimmer said:
dallas said:
ArnoldRimmer said:
What's actually most interesting in my opinion is how huge the browser marketshare numbers differ, depending on which market research company is being asked.

The article already mentions the numbers from Statcounter:
Chrome: 43.12% (vs. 17.76%)
IE: 24.53% (vs. 56.61%)
Firefox: 20.09% (vs. 18.29%)
Safari: 8.59% (vs. 5.42%)
Opera: 1.1% (vs. 1.49%)

As the article already points out, these differences are mainly due to different approaches to measuring market share numbers: Users vs. page views. So what we can read from the different numbers is that typical Internet Explorer users are only casually surfing the internet, while typical Chrome users seem to be heavily surfing the internet.

Not really, even though I'd personally rather that be the case as, I dont like IE/Bing/ MSFT in general.  However, this is more due to the fact that Chrome pre-renders frequently visited webpages, where they are always kept in a state of not-fully-visited so that when somebody actually visits the webpage, it will pop up much more quickly.  

Interesting, I didn't know that Chrome does this.

This doesn't explain the even bigger difference in IE's market share numbers though.


Sure it does.  One method includes the prerendered results , which would favor Chrome, the other does not and therefore favors IE.  I personally dont beleive that it would be fair to include the prerendered results in a measurement, but either way it remains clear that the trend is that of Chrome becoming more popular.