What’s your favorite browser? I changed from Firefox to Chrome over a year back and it looks like there were several people like me. The latest report from Comscore shows that Google Chrome has grown by over 210% in the year between Sep ’09 and Sep ’10. What’s more interesting is the fact that Internet [...]

Janco Associates have published a white paper that elaborates on the latest browser market share (based on usage in April 2010).  The firm writes, “Based on our test results current versions of IE and Firefox are significantly more robust than prior versions.  In addition, IE 8 is feature rich and a step ahead of the [...]

Opera has released its customary ‘State of the Mobile Web‘ report and this is the first report since the Opera Mini app for iPhone was approved by Apple few weeks earlier. So it is naturally interesting to see how the approval of the Opera Mini app helped the growth of the mobile web browser. Here [...]

Mozilla Firefox has been the browser that has been able to take on the dominance of Internet Explorer most effectively. In its most recent metrics report, Mozilla looked into the market share numbers offered by third party studies from StatCounter, Quantcast, Net Applications and Gemius to calculate the average market share in each market. Accordingly, [...]

In the past one year, the number of users accessing Facebook from their smartphone mobile browser has jumped 112%. The corresponding number for Twitter is 347%. This is interesting because this does not include the number of users accessing these social networks via mobile apps that is pretty ubiquitous on smartphones today. Also, the difference [...]

Firefox has continued to grow over the past year. You might remember that back in August, Firefox 3.5 garnered a 4.5% market share among web browsers within the first month of going live. So, that should summarize the growth path over the past year. Here is a region-wise listing of Firefox’s growth Africa : 82% [...]

We had earlier seen the top 10 countries for Opera Mini in terms of usage. Now, here is how the mobile web browser is growing in the various parts of the world. Here is the YoY growth in unique users in November 2009 Southeast Asia : 362% South Asia : 206% Africa : 176% Latin [...]

This news made me happy – Firefox has overtaken IE as the most used web browser in Germany. Right now, the lead is marginal and so it is still so much possible that Internet Explorer can claim back the top spot that it has held for over a decade. Here are the latest market share [...]

Opera Mini is no doubt still one of the most popular browsers on the mobile phones. So how has the usage been growing? A in-house report released earlier this week notes some interesting stats Users Number of unique users in October ’09 : 39.6 million (155% over Oct ’08 and 11.3% over Sep ’09) Pageviews [...]

How long before Android overtakes the iPhone? At least quite some time, if we are to go by what StatCounter statistics say. According the market share recorded by StatCounter for the month of October 2009, the iPhone market share is nearly ten times the market share of Android. Anyway, Droid could change all that. Only [...]