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Peak Chrome? Google's browser falls as Firefox, Internet Explorer stay flat
- grandalf 14y agoOne thing I've noticed over the past year is that Chrome's automatic updates break functionality (OSX) and then Chrome needs to be restarted, but doesn't realize this and prompt the user to restart. Now whenever Chrome malfunctions I check for updates and 90% of the time an update was installed and is waiting for a restart.
- jimgardener 14y agoNice plots..what software did you use to make the plots?
- GrumpySimon 14y agoThe line graphs are ggplot2 in R (http://ggplot2.org/ http://ggplot2.org/)
- thauck 14y agoTwo things: 1. I wish the author would define "market share" - is it % of users, percent of pageviews via that browser, or something else. 2. The adoption visualization really shows the difference between release strategies.
- deadhead 14y agoThe article was using the data from NetApplications which is % of users. Most % of page views, such as StatCounter, still show Chrome as the top browser.
- btilly 14y agoGiven the mechanics of Chrome prefetching, % of page views figures are somewhat suspect. (Yes, they try to correct for that, but are the corrections correct?)
- klrr 14y agoHow can we know the numbers are correct?
- rodion_89 14y agoThese number are very different than that shown by StatCounter [1] and Wikipedia [2]. If you look at Wikipedia's comparisons, they compare data from many sources. NetApplications (the dataset used by this article) is by far the one source that differs greatly from the rest of the data. This likely has to do with the types of audiences that visit the sites they monitor, so the data should be taken with a grain of salt. [1] http://gs.statcounter.com/ http://gs.statcounter.com/ [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_web_browsers http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_web_browsers
- eckyptang 14y agoIndeed. As a point to back this up, 97% of our 80,000,000 daily hits are internet explorer 7-10. This confirms is that browser statistics are rubbish!
- ygra 14y agoThis mostly confirms that browser statistics vary by region, audience, sites sampled, etc. That being said, I'd guess if we sampled Facebook and Google (+ regionally strong competitors, e.g. Baidu) we could get a quite accurate sample of the general web population ;-)
- huskyr 14y agoWhy not Wikipedia? It seems to me to be the best source of data, in terms of 'a general site everybody visits'.
- m_for_monkey 14y ago"Chrome has dropped 0.27 points" Is this a joke? That graph looks like four straight (xkcd-style) horizontal lines.
- dbaupp 14y agoWhy would you expect to be able to see a deviation of 0.27 on a graph that goes from 0 to 60? That is a change less than 0.5%. The numbers quoted aren't read from the graphs, but rather the graphs and the numbers are derived from a table of data.
- batgaijin 14y agoYay, lets go back to pretending Alexa and it's derivatives are actually relevant to reality!
- willpearse 14y agoSome confidence intervals on these graphs would really make this a lot more useful...
- hugh4life 14y agoChrome is still moving up on Clicky... http://getclicky.com/marketshare/global/web-browsers/ http://getclicky.com/marketshare/global/web-browsers/ I switched from Firefox to Chrome out of frustration because Firefox kept breaking the tree-style-tabs extension. I used to be a big Firefox defender before that but I gave up and moved to Chrome.