Chrome Market Share: WebTrends Says 2%; Over 7% at ReadWriteWeb
Web analytics firm WebTrends reported today that mainstream Internet users are "embracing" the Google Chrome browser. In the third week since its launch, WebTrends states that Google Chrome is the fourth most popular browser used by visitors to the web site of The Daily Telegraph, Britain's highest selling newspaper. WebTrends puts the figure at "nearly 2 percent" of the total traffic to telegraph.co.uk, which it says is more than Netscape, Mozilla, Opera and other browsers. Presumably the browsers above it are IE, Firefox and Safari.
Here at tech-focused site ReadWriteWeb, the last couple of weeks of Google Analytics data shows that about 7.25% of our readers are visiting using Chrome.
Here's a screenshot of RWW stats from the last couple of weeks:
Compare this to the month of August, when our browser stats looked like this:
Clearly Chrome has taken share from both Firefox (3.93%) and IE (4.7%), for our tech-savvy readers. However Safari's share has gone up a little on our site in September. Time will tell whether these trends continue, but for now Chrome is continuing at a solid 7% + for our site. Not bad when you consider that our readers are also statistically more likely than the general population to use Macs - which Chrome isn't available on yet. 18.28% of our August readers were Mac users, with 75.68% Windows.
More importantly, Chrome looks to be close to establishing itself as the 4th most popular browser in the mainstream market - which is bad news for Opera.
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Chrome is 3% on Govit.com.
When's the Mac version coming out!
Here's what I think:
http://www.slavoingilizov.com/blog/2008/09/12/where-will-chromes-share-come-from/
Why the hell do people use this browser? it has no functionality other browsers do not have, it relies on webkit which safari does too, and there still seems to be people switching over to it? WHY? thats like changing to a new car which is fully unsupported but "trendy" right now.
is jumping on the hype-bandwagon the new trend? is using newly developed wheels better than old ones?
i really think like geek and poke on this one:
http://geekandpoke.typepad.com/geekandpoke/2008/09/googles-latest.html
@Christoph, it's faster. I too won't be using it until it has more to offer though. But I am excited to see how it progresses.
Richard - as you put it RWW Readers are in the most tech savvy group - and so if anything the chrome numbers are probably somewhere in the average 2-3 percent (using the numbers people are reporting). But in general it is probably far less than 2%. Let's not use the download numbers for now - it is meaningless. I am tech savvy - and use firefox - but have not touched chrome (primarly because I do not trust Google's privacy policy, and I get everyting I need from Firefox).
I'm not sure what everybody likes so much about Chrome. I downloaded it, tried it and after about three days went back to Firefox. I'm not a tech savvy guy. But....
I downloaded it for testing purpose. Seems faster then other browsers. But I am more comfortable with Firefox.........
it's funny, the more i use Chrome (for windows), the more unstable it seems to get... crashes a lot more, can't handle sites with flash, hangs every time i close a tab... all that to say, i'm switching back to Firefox
I just like not having to type and then scroll for the sites I commonly use. Just type the first 2 letters of a URL and press enter, ...BANG! Fast, smooth!