March web browser market share: Safari and IE top

According to the market share of mobile web browsers (browser used on tablet and smartphone) in March from Net Applications, iOS of Safari still occupies the first position, not only that this web browser also increase in market share compared to the previous month.

After losing market share to the main competitors, Safari won last month, it holds 61.79% market share in hands (February is 55.41%). The second position belongs to the Android web browser that is preinstalled on Google's Android OS.

It can be seen that the distance that Safari created with the Android web browser at the 2nd position is very large, it is up to nearly 40%. Opera Mini ranked 3rd with 8.4% and the next position belongs to Google Chrome for Android / iOS with a market share of 2.43%. For Safari, after increasing steadily in previous years, this web browser has stalled recently. In March 2012 it was 60.5% but by March this year, that number only increased slightly to 61.79%. Meanwhile, Android, Chrome or IE browsers have increased their market share.

For browser market share, IE10 came first with 55.83%. This is the original browser only for Windows 8 but recently, Microsoft has also released it for Windows 7. Right after it is Firefox with 20.21% and Chrome with 16.45%. Last year, Google Chrome threatened the No. 2 position of Mozilla Firefox, this year, its market share has dropped significantly while Firefox has remained fairly stable.