Chrome to Surpass IE Market Share by End of March

I don't think it's that simple and I don't think you can just "extend" that graph and predict something like that. At some point Chrome will flatline and people who like IE will stay with IE.

What you're doing is just extending a graph, with your train of thought Chrome will have 100% of the market share by the end of the year, and we can all see that's not going to happen.

There is no way that Statcounter is correct. Here is a completely different set of numbers:

http://netmarketshare.com/browser- [...] pcustomd=0

Despite all odds, I am using Chrome right now.

And you can predict when it will flatline... the author just followed the stat and if you can't predict that crome will flatline in less than 2 months then it will most likely grow and by plus minus march, it will overcome IE...

unless you can predict its decline without undergoing a flatline first in two months...

Now if you analyze the current market, how many android do you think is being bought? and... I don't know any IE being installed in any android device...

also, i'm sure its the weekend buying day where peeps buy their android phone/tablets and then install crome to browse... based on this I would say that the stat is realistic... don't you think?

No wonder. The advantages Chrome has:

1.) Better product, better user experience

2.) IE9 is only linked to Win7 which really upsets the users of previous operating systems, blackmailing them to upgrate to Win7. Wrong strategy.

Long live Chrome

That's what happens when your browser works only on the latest OS.
You try to force the market to upgrade the OS just to use your latest browser... the maket may just switch to a different browser.
Once you lost a client that way it is double hard to get them back..Looks like Micro$oft shot itself in the foot yet again.

i hate google, but i use chrome everyday.i did love firefox, but it became such a resource hog that i switched to chrome. youtube and pdf without plug-ins right out of the box. i hate google.

Chrome FTW.

IE is bland. FF is cluttered.

I'll take Chrome all day long.

I think IE runs on Vista too. Not that I'm endorsing Vista, mind you. Just saying.

wow, so you mean google actually has 1 product that wasn't retired to the graveyard?

Well they have this little OS called Android you may have heard of and this kinda popular site google.com. I'm pretty sure both of those are pretty successful as well.

Must be rough to have the #1 mobile OS, website, and soon web browser on the planet. All those other products retired to the graveyard ya know? (I don't recognize facebook as a website - its more advertising crack)

What are you talking about and why would you make such a preposterous statement? Is this a case of type before you think?

For Microsoft to bounce back, they need to ditch the "Internet Explorer" name and make a non-OS reliant browser. Right now, people associate IE with "awful", "slow", and "resource hog". They need to take the approach that they did with Bing - work from the ground up, re-brand, and more accessible.

For Microsoft to bounce back, they need to ditch the "Internet Explorer" name and make a non-OS reliant browser. Right now, people associate IE with "awful", "slow", and "resource hog". They need to take the approach that they did with Bing - work from the ground up, re-brand, and more accessible.

Not all people associate, it is still the most popular browser and it is no longer bundled, must be doing something right, they just need to jam it into peoples faces the same way Google does with Chrome on its homepage.

With the exception of my earlier comment, everyone here is simply way off base. This is not about who's got the better browser. That can be debated ad infinitum.

What we have here is some apparently suspect browser usage statistics that are being reported on and taken as fact.

"I read it on the internet so it must be true".

StatCounter does not seem to publish their methodologies or any other information about how they come up with their data. Others do:

http://netmarketshare.com/faq.aspx

I personally find the StatCounter numbers to be markedly different than what I see from other sources, and rather than sensationalizing it, maybe it's time for some fact finding before information like this is put forth.

IE is bland. FF is cluttered.


and...Chrome is a spy tracking ,data miner,sniffer,etcetc POS....

I have to acutally use Chrome, IE and FF to get anything done on the internet. They all claim whatever they want but each one has problems that require me to, as stated, use all three at some point.

I tried Chrome just to see what it was all about. It was ok...didn't really like it. I went to Petco's website then when to MSN's. To my surprise there was a Petco ad on the MSN website now. Tried the same thing with FF....yup...Petco ad on MSN's website. Tried the same thing with IE9...no Petco ad. I'll be sticking with IE9. You want to be tracked and data mined stick with Chrome..lol

I wish that Chrome would use less memory, but I guess that's the price for having separate processes for each tab. At least when you close something it gives the memory back, unlike FF.

MAXTHON!!! But I use a chrome skin...

@chucko

That data you linked to is from NetApplications, a company whose data I will never trust again.

I've been visiting these browser tracking sites regularly and viewing their data years before Chrome even existed. In the beginning, I relied mainly on NetApplications data but then noticed with amazement that they had persistently claimed that Apple's OSX had 10% of global share, which was absolutely impossible since Apple's sales figures indicated that they couldn't have more than 3-4% global market share at the time. However, it just so happened that hardware sales data indicated that Apple's machines had about 10% of the US market and only 50% of their sales were to the rest of the globe! Coincidence? No. Further investigation revealed that NetApplications overwhelmingly gets their data from sites that primarily services users living in the North American market, causing their so-called 'global' data to be severely skewed to resemble the North American market instead of the global market. And that explained how they came up with that erroneous OSX global data. The media was using their data as gospel, and no one paid any attention to the obvious flaws in the numbers, simply ignoring the fact that all the other browser analysis were painting a totally different picture.

Then suddenly, NetApplication announced that they had 'changed their methodology' and their numbers suddenly began to look more like what StatCounter and others were saying all along. However, they're still mainly tracking sites that overwhelmingly get their traffic from the English-speaking North American market and they're still trying to use that kind of limited, flawed sample to claim they know what the global picture looks like. Meanwhile, the media continues to quote them as if the years that they spent giving the world wrong information didn't happen. Sorry, but I'm not buying it.

NetApplications only monitors about 40,000 sites. StatCounter monitors well over 3 million sites from across the globe, and they have so much data from each and every country that they can provide daily stats on every country out there. I've looked at independent data from specific countries and compared them to what StatCounter has tallied and the data and trends match up quite well. That's why I have far more confidence in StatCounter's global data figures.

Chrome is much more better and reliable than I.E. !

Looking at Statcounter, they counts pageviews and the number one country that they track is the US, followed by Brazil and then the UK. China is #11 on their list. They simply track page views. Page view tracking is inherently flawed in the fact that it is subject to automated bots and other short term anomalies along with the ability of some users or systems to poison the data stream.

I'd much rather trust the data coming from a smaller overall sample size that is generated using a controlled and well designed sampling methodology than I would from a system that places absolutely no controls on their data sources.

Compare for yourself:

http://www.netmarketshare.com/faq.aspx

http://gs.statcounter.com/faq#methodology

Which methodology would you trust?

Been using Chrome for about a year when I got tired of Firefox.

The site mentioned was filtered to desktop devices... How about all devices...

We are talking about browser here as a whole and should not be limited to a single device... the data you presented is not complete

For those who say "You can't just extend the data," I suggest you look at the graphs and notice just how shockingly linear they actually are. Sure, they are gong to change at some point, but calling that change as 2-3 months from now really seems unrealistic given that the numbers have been primarily linear for almost two years. It actually looks like the market is going to shake out to about 30/30/30 + 10 for the "Other" category. That will make for a supremely healthy browser market, the like of which I don't think the modern Internet has seen.

No wonder. Chrome's rendering engine can take advantage of more than one core to render all the tabs, whereas Firefox is limited to 1 core.
I hope Firefox gets this feature soon so when restoring all tabs, it's fast and uses all CPU power available.

Bad data? Chrome for Android just came out for ICS...the normal browser isn't chrome or chromium based at all.

One of my parents computers runs Vista. IE9 does work on it, so you are right.

Sorry for double post Dx

In the citation, I didn't mention anything about bad data, I mentioned that you can't predict a flatline in two months

As for the bad data on my second post, the site clearly shows desktop only. I am sure their is a separate stat for laptop, mobilephone and others and thus that data is not complete.

Bad data, no, but incomplete, yes.

The crome for android is just a bonus now that it is available to android. In that effect, that stat will most likely grow for crome... or to any browser that is available to android...