Tag archive: StatCounter

According to Ireland-based, research firm StatCounter, Google's Chrome 15 has overtaken Microsoft's Internet Explorer 8 in global browser usage during the final week of November 2011. While IE8 is still the champ in the United States, Chrome's popularity globally is attributed to increased usage while at home on the weekends as well as growth within the workplace during the week. The last time that a browser version took over… Read More

Based off a report from Ireland-based research firm StatCounter, the Google Chrome browser has moved into second place globally for the first time. While Microsoft's Internet Explorer still remains at the top, Mozilla's Firefox browser continued on a downward trend that started at the end of 2010. The research firm reported that Chrome took a 25.7 percent market share in November 2011 while Firefox fell to 25.23 percent. Just two… Read More

Mozilla's Firefox 4 browser has been downloaded more than 100 million times since its launch a month ago; however, the new browser's rapid uptake doesn't seem to have attracted many new fans: according to Web metrics firms, Firefox's overall share of the browser market has remained essentially flat since the Firefox 4 launch. The figures suggest that while existing Firefox users are rapidly checking out the new release,… Read More

Over a decade ago, Microsoft Internet Explorer—then in its almighty version 4 incarnation—managed to eclipse Netscape Navigator to become the most-used browser on the Web. And Internet Explorer is still the most common browser on the Web today. But where IE used to command an estimated 80 percent of the browser market as recently as two years ago, Net Applications has delivered a bit of a stunner: IE's share of the worldwide… Read More

The Internet has been watching carefully as Microsoft's much-touted (and much-marketed) Bing search engine tries to take on Google in the Internet search marketplace…and, at least initially, Bing seems to be gaining followers, even if a good portion of its gains appear to be coming at the expense of new partner Yahoo. Now, however, Web analytics firm StatCounter finds that Bing's initial honeymoon with the Internet search… Read More