Chrome Browser Shows 4.62% Growth In Market Share on www.chromevoice.com

(see chart below)

Looks like the world is jumping on the reports of the Google Chrome browser’s small market share drop over the last week.

The news was the opposite for “The Chrome Voice”.

Here at www.chromebrowser.com, we saw an increase of 4.62% for Chrome.

Sure we’re a small site with a very targeted topic, but the change has been significant. 

Since last week, the numbers actually show an increase for both Chrome and Safari, but a loss for IE, Firefox, Opera, Mozilla and Seamonkey.

Since I last measured on 9/17/08, here’s how things have changed:

• Chrome usage rose from 45.69% to 50.31%
   
• Firefox usage fell from 34.01% to 33.07%
   
• IE usage fell from 15.74% to 12.23%
   
• Safari usage rose from 2.03% to 2.66%
   
• Opera usage fell from 1.52% to 1.41%
   
• Both Mozilla and Seamonkey dropped from 0.51% to 0.16%
   

The 9/23/08 stats for www.chromevoice.com are:

1.	Chrome		50.31%
2.	Firefox		33.07%
3.	Internet Explorer		12.23%
4.	Safari		2.66%
5.	Opera		1.41%
6.	Mozilla		0.16%
7.	SeaMonkey		0.16%

 

It will be interesting to watch both the trend here at www.chromebrowser.com and the larger trends tracked by others world wide.

Chrome Browser Share: Certified at 2%

WebTrends Analytics certified that 2% of the visitors to telegraph.co.uk used the Google Chrome browser.

(”telegraph.co.uk” is the website for Britain’s highest selling news paper, The Daily Telegraph)

This number is larger than the number of visitors using Netscape, Mozilla, Opera and other browsers.

Is Safari losing market share to Chrome?

Safari wasn’t mentioned, but if you read what Greg Keizer reports in Computerworld, Chrome isn’t stealing market share from Safari.

The full Market Watch article about the WebTrends Analytics info is here.

Greg Keizer’s full article is here.

Review: Chrome Has Lit a Fire Under the Market

Call the Google Chrome browser a “pearl” or the “grain of sand”.

Call it a “harbinger of change”.

Call it a “break through” or whatever else you want, but one thing is clear, Chrome has lit a fire under the market.

Talk of market share, competing features and confident stances by existing browser makers have filled the web.

Here are some I found particularly interesting.

Gregg Keizer at “Computer World” world writes about how Firefox is adding a privacy mode (in response to Chrome).

Mary Jo Foley at “ZDNet” write about whether Microsoft should create a “lite” IE for time where you want to do a quick browse.

Matt Asay at “cnet” is raising up Microsoft’s SharePoint as the Microsoft’s real answer to Google, the Chrome browser and web apps.

There are reports on how Chrome is taking market share from Safari and Opera  but not IE (Brian Kraemer at ChannelWeb), and then there are reports on how Chrome is taking market share from IE (Gregg Keizer at Computerworld).

There’s even a mention of Chrome as a Firefox Killer (Michael Desmond at “The Redmond Developer”).

Beyond market share, there’s talk from Thomas Claburn at “InformationWeek” about the long road Chrome has before it’s welcomed as an enterprise solution.

With all the press stories pointing in all directions and the comments from the other browser makers on their view of Chrome, one thing is for certain, Chrome has definitely made it’s mark.

Read Greg Keizer’s “Computerworld” stories here and here.

Read Mary Jo Foley’s “ZDNet” story here.

Matt Asay’s “cnet” article about Sharepoint is here.

Michael Desmond’s “The Redmond Developer” story is here.

Thomas Claburn’s story in “Information Week” is here.