Google Chrome Browser Market Share

Google Chrome has now become the worldwide market share leader, taking the lead away from MSFT Internet Explorer (IE). Chrome ended the week of May 20 with 32.76 percent of the global browser market share, while IE came in at 31.94 percent - a 0.82 percent difference.

Those figures are for the whole planet, in the USA things are a bit different. According to monthly data from Net Applications, IE had 54.09 percent of the browser market in April, followed by Firefox with 20.20 percent, and Chrome with 18.85 percent.

Our blog readership numbers don’t reflect those percentages even remotely. The numbers for our readers for the past month show these percentage:

Firefox: 61%
IE: 17%
Safari: 12%
Chrome: 6%
Opera: 1%
Mobile Safari: <1%
Bing Preview: <1%