Wednesday 21st March 2012

Web analytics firm data confirms trend to Chrome at weekends

Boston, USA & Dublin, Ireland; Wednesday, 21st March, 2012:: Google's Chrome narrowly became the world's top internet browser for the first time on Sunday 18 March 2012, according to StatCounter, the independent website analytics company. The firm's research arm StatCounter Global Stats reports that Chrome topped the polls in India, Russia and Brazil, all of which contributed to it becoming the number one browser for that day on a global basis.

"While it is only one day, this is a milestone," commented Aodhan Cullen, CEO, StatCounter. He added that Chrome still faces a battle to unseat its main rivals including IE and Firefox in many regions. Chrome remains in 2nd or 3rd place in China, United States and Germany, for example.

"Whether Chrome can take the lead in the browser wars in the long term remains to be seen, however the trend towards Chrome usage at weekends is undeniable. At weekends, when people are free to choose what browser to use, many of them are selecting Chrome in preference to IE," added Aodhan Cullen, commenting on the weekend surges in Chrome usage.

StatCounter data is based on over 15 billion page views per month (4 billion from the US) to the StatCounter network of more than three million websites*.

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*About StatCounter Global Stats

• StatCounter Global Stats data is based on a pool of 3 million+ global websites.
• Stats are derived from over 15 billion page views per month (4 billion from the US). We are not aware of any other publicly available service providing global stats information that has a bigger sample size.
• We do not apply artificial weights to our worldwide data. Weighting factors are not relevant for individual country stats.
• All StatCounter Global Stats data and graphs are available free of charge.
• We publish our individual country sample sizes here.
• We do not currently make any adjustment for pre-rendering.

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