When Google first released the Google Chrome web browser, the initial sentiment was neither here nor there. However, times have changed as more and more internet users have converted to this amazingly quick and stable web browser. I have conducted some limited research on the market share relating to web browsers in South Africa.
South Africa
This research is based on information aggregated from 2.5 million page views from 6 different web categories: Entertainment, shopping, travel, kids, blogging and business. These stats are a comparison between the dates Jul 2009 – Dec 2009 to Jan 2010 – Jun 2010.
- Chrome increased from 5.64% to 8.16% (up 2.52%)
- Internet Explorer decreased from 70.78% to 69.42% (down 1.36%)
- Firefox increased from 15.43% to 15.57% (up 0.14%)
As you can see, South African’s are reluctant to let go of Internet Explorer.
Global
This data (from Net Applications) follows the same date range as above, Jul-Dec 2009 to Jan-Jun 2010 and yields similar results.
- Chrome increased from 3.45% to 6.31% (up 2.86%)
- Internet Explorer decreased from 65.24% to 60.74% (down 4.50%)
- Firefox increased from 23.76% to 24.32% ( up 0.56%)
About the Author:
Nick is the owner of Code Cabin, founder of PingPong and co-founder of AirWeddings. He has an extensive history in programming and digital marketing and has worked on some of the largest online websites in South Africa. Nick shares his knowledge and insight on his personal blog, nickduncan.co.za.
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I run a pretty busy travel website, and had a look at my stats for the same periods:
IE dropped from 73% to 69%
Firefox remained at 17%
Chrome went from 4% to 6%
Sounds about right then, we share similar statistics. Thanks for the input!
Interesting stats. With IE the fact that the global drop is steeper than the local drop off could be because of Europe where apparently MS is not so popular and IE is loosing ground to open source browsers.