Chrome Snags 1 Percent of Market on Day One

According to one site that logs Web statistics, 1 percent of all page views on Wednesday came from users with Chrome.

One percent rarely means much in the world of statistics, but when a new product manages to grab one percent of a huge, fiercely competitive marketplace in just one day, it certainly means something. And if the numbers are to be believed, Google Chrome managed to do just that when it launched on Tuesday.

According to StatCounter, which has access to data from over 1.9 million Webmasters, Google Chrome hits accounted for an entire one percent of traffic on Sept. 3, the day after its launch, indicating a stunning first-day market penetration. The data came from a sample size of 18.5 million page views.

Although the statistics certainly point to a large amount of initial interest in Chrome, day-one statistics may vary significantly from long-term adoption rates, as users decide whether or not to use Chrome permanently.