According to the page you linked, the difference is because NetApplication uses unique daily users instead of page hits. NetApplications also uses some differen

According to the page you linked, the difference is because NetApplication uses unique daily users instead of page hits. NetApplications also uses some different weighting per country. StatCounter also use a much larger sample, 3 million websites vs 40k. I would guess, this means there are still more people using IE, but those using Chrome use the internet more often? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_web_browsers#Differences_in_measurement http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_web_browsers#Dif...