Chrome market share exceeds 20% threshold

The growth of market share of Chrome browser developed by Google has yet to show signs of stopping. According to StatCounter's latest report, a website and Internet analytics service, there are currently about one-fifth of Internet users worldwide who use Chrome.

By the end of June 2011, Chrome's market share reached 20.7%, an increase of 2.8% compared to June 2009 market share. But also in this two-year period, the market share of Internet Explorer developed by Microsoft has plunged from 59% to 44% or Mozilla Firefox has also decreased slightly from 30% to 28% after several years. impressive growth.

This is indeed an impressive result of Google Chrome because it is still a browser just over 2 years old (Chrome's WebKit launched in December 2008). According to users, Chrome is popular because it has a very simple but convenient interface, a high-speed JavaScript V8 engine, supports many of the latest web programming standards, and is very supportive. effective other Google services like Gmail, Google Docs.

This result is provided by StatCounter by analyzing, summarizing and statistics about 15 billion users per month on a network of over 3 million different websites.