Web analytics startup GetClicky says that almost 2% of all internet traffic to the 45,000 websites they monitor is coming from Google Chrome today. That’s sure to dip down as a lot of people go back to their normal browsers, and their client base is certainly not statistically relevant to the Internet as a whole. But if the experience these people are having with Chrome is anything like what I see on our Windows test machine, a lot of them will be making Chrome their new default browser.
Google Analytics, which is what we use at TechCrunch, doesn’t track Chrome usage yet (we’ll see tomorrow after the delay period ends). But our users have never been very representative of the Internet as a whole anyway. 56% of TechCrunch readers from the last 30 days use Firefox, compared to 31% for Internet Explorer and 10% for Safari. Full TechCrunch stats below:
Google Analytics doesn’t track Chrome usage yet? Maybe that’s because of the 1 day delay in its analysis?
yep. we’ll see tomorrow.
I believe you can set the custom date range to include today’s partial stats..
No. Their blog says they don’t support it yet, but they will “very soon.” It took me 2 seconds to add it to I-stats ( http://www.i-stats.com )
So, not soon enough, Google Analytics: (1) You’re Google, (2) You knew about this browser a year ago.
http://analytic...wser.html#links
does anyone know how to get the middle mouse button to auto scroll? it’s kind of annoying rolling the wheel to scroll.
It would be helpful if Google Chrome worked for YouTube videos. They freeze up 2 seconds in. The same video works fine in Firefox.
This is not a good start fro Chrome. More like a pain in the *** for users.
It’s probably a system performance problem on your end.
I just loaded up Chrome, went to YouTube, played a video, and it’s still playing just fine right now. Absolutely no YouTube problems over here.
You are an exception in this regard.It’s working absolutely ok as far as Youtube videos are concerned…
YouTube is singing on Chrome here.
I also had problems playing long youtube videos.
Chrome starts hanging, however the good thing is it does not make the whole browser crash.
I think that’s a FLASH bug you’re experiencing (the 2-second choke)… It seems to happen to me in Firefox as well. More info here:
http://forums.m...3253563#3253563
2 percent i am surprise at such a high number
High number? ithink chrome is so bad !
Yeah a lot of people are just playing around with so I’m guessing it will drop too, but I was still impressed by the 2% market share across the globe – that’s insane for a product less than 12 hours old.
From everythign I’ve read most people think it’s a pretty slick little browser. My only complaint is no third party extensions
BS.
Nice, Clicky is a pretty good service
GetClicky Roxrs!
This is great. I will check my Google Analytics account tomorrow and see what are the stats.
http://www.KidT...ru.blogspot.com
If you used Clicky, you’d know RIGHT NOW!
Also I think your results will be biased, since you posted a link to your blog, and all the people on here are probably trying chrome
There is no way that this can be remotely accurate. Google employees are all using it, but that still can’t account for 2% of all internet traffic in a single day.
The data is from 45,000 web sites located all over the world, from all types of sites – blogs, ecommerce, universities, etc. And only 1/3 of Clicky users are in the US. Sure it’s not 100% accurate, there’s no way it could be, but considering our user base it’s a good ballpark figure.
Google is also collecting Usage stats which is turned on by default in Chrome. To disable goto Setting > Options > Under the Hood.
Love the browser, love the company but it’s ridiculous how invasive their data collection is.
Are you sure? At the download link it has a check box :
” Optional: Help make Chrome better by automatically sending usage statistics and crash reports to Google.” Maybe you checked the box thinking that was the license agreement.
Did you go to the link? It’s harvested from 45,000 live sites. I mean, that’s good enough for me.
And it’s live, so meh to your comment.
If only it had NTLM support! As fast as the browser performs, its a pain to get around internal sites.
Highly biased results from a highly biased website analytics company – just check who uses Clicky – mostly companies with a very wide geek base – who, of course, in this day and age are totally Google ( and Apple, for good measure) fanboys!
peace.
What? FireFox is number one? there is something wrong with that analytics. On all my Google Analytics charts IE is WAYYYY over FireFox
Whoops, those are TC analytics
Google should have talked to the folks at Guinness before releasing Chrome, because they will probably break the world record for fastest gain in browser market share in a 24-hour period. All kidding aside, I think it’s definitely a nice, lightweight, and very fast browser.
There is an old saying, “Statistics are only meant to prove what they are trying to prove”. I highly doubt that Google Chrome has 2% of the browser market share considering it was only released for Vista/XP. That fact alone leaves a lot of people out of the loop.
and tracking 45k sites? that’s a drop in the bucket compared to the millions of sites on the internet.
If you believe this, I know a guy who has a bridge for sale.
i believe that 2% of the traffic going to those 45k sites today is from Chrome.
45k sites is a drop in the buket, but gives a good base, and one with reason can say that if out of 45K sites 2% use x browser, then it probably is close to accurate across millions of sites.
I would be interested to see what the 45K sites percentage is for FireFox and IE, then we could see how close matched their stastics pool is with others…
Chris I updated the page so it shows marketshare for all major browsers, plus mobile, console, and “other” (mainly Konq and iCab). Currently:
Chrome: 2.6%
MSIE: 53.6%
Firefox: 34.6%
Opera: 0.9%
Safari: 6.3%
Mobile: 0.9%
Console (Wii, etc): 0.1%
Other: 0.9%
“considering it was only released for Vista/XP”
Oh, you mean the two most dominant OS’ in the world that account for over 90% of computer users? Yeah, that’s too bad they released for JUST those platforms, because that’s pretty much nobody.
45,000 is still a good sample size. It does not represent the entire internet but we have a very wide range of sites, whose webmastesr are all over the world (only 1/3 in the US), so I think it provides a good ballpark figure.
you can make statistic say anything
and i do believe this is the case
yep.
You can but why would getclicky an analytics tool that is in competition with google analytics make up impressive statistics that promote another google product? What would they have to gian by “make statistic say anything”, infact they have allot to loose by doing so, if they made them up and got caught no one would trust their reports, and not use their product. So you can make statistics say anything, but I doubt they are….
because clicky has a huge team of devs writing a competing google chrome competitor? seriously, think before you type
Scott, i never said they have a competing team for chrome, The post above mine said “you can make statistic say anything”, giving the impression that they believed the 2% was false.
I simply stated that a company that has a product (getclicky analytics) that competes with google analytics would not come out with false things about google that show google doing well if they were going to make false statistics it would be the other way, trying to show google in a bad light….
So Scott seriously, READ before you type a reply, and get a life you idiot.
sigh…hopefully chrome will be a non-factor or it will kill other major players very very very soon
developing applications and ensuring compatibility with all the existing browsers is painful enough
Chrome IS WebKit though (Safari’s engine). If your site supports Safari, it’s guaranteed to work with Chrome.
Yes. You’re so right. Thanks for that valuable information.
Your site is guaranteed to work with Chrome because all WebKit forks are IDENTICAL!
or not.
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This is THE platform for Javascript applications (gmail, zoho etc). If they get a way to play video without using flash that would be huge. Not sure what it portends for firefox.
I’m assuming Chrome won’t actually show up as “Chrome” in analytics. Otherwise, we’d all have noticed it in our stats over the past few months–from Google employees visiting our sites.
The Googolians are going to rule the world. Who is more powerful? The President of the United States or the Googolians…
Adblock Plus is more powerful than Google, faster than a bullet, able to leap tall buildings in a single bound,
The people nitpicking the data crack me up. Take it for what its worth, for crying out loud… I think it’s awesome… of course there were a lot of people checking it out today, and who knows what will happen in the future… but as a net-tracking geek, (and a clicky account holder) this is interesting stuff to me… Chrome has major potential, imho… thanks for the fun data-tracking day, Google and Clicky.
I made Chrome my default browser, I am software pro and I know what it is. And BTW clicky shows the chrome usage at 2.68%. Asia waking up with Chrome.
It so fits my surfing needs…go Chrome!!!
YouTube is singing on Chrome here.
I’ve tried Chrome but I ‘m too attached with Firefox to make it my default browser. But then who knows what will happen in the coming days.
Just wanted to say we use Clicky and love it. For some reason, they get really pissed when you call them “GetClicky”.
Yeah, it’s one of our pet peeves.
Chrome is an almost perfect browser that thing is soooooo fast its like double the speed of Opera the current (not any more) fastest browser, any ways I wish I can add all my firefox extensions to Chrome then it will be perfect:)
SWEET!!! Firefox has 34%!
That’s HUGE! THIRTY-FOUR PERCENT!!!
For months now everyone’s been saying Firefox was just under 20% and now it’s up at 34%. AMAZING!!
Firefox 3 must really be KICKING ASS to have almost doubled Mozilla’s share in just a couple of months. It’s all over for Microsoft for sure.
More than 1 in 3 are FIREFOX USERS!!!
These stats are only for users visiting Techcrunch. Read properly before commenting
Sidarth,
if you read before posting, you would see that Foo is right, for FireFox it is 34%, however for Tech Crunch firefox is 56.03%…
So take the advice you gave to Foo and you “Read properly before commenting”…. Funny you try to make someone look stupid only to come out looking stupid yourselve….
Huh. I just downloaded it and started using it to find 4 instances of chrome.exe taking over 86MB of ram while visiting techcrunch.com.
omg 56% of TC readers are on Firefox. Let me guess then. 90% are on Mac, 74% only use Open Office and 68% go to sleep hugging their iPhones because they’yre too much of a geeks to have a relationship with a real person.
awesome.
Tried it, liked it, won’t go back to it before it has adblock…
–> What are the odds that Google would block their own adds? Or even better, would it be evil to block everyone else’s adds?
I track using getclicky and it shows nearly 85% are from GC…..Dont believe> http://techkidd...orld-stats.html
Dude! only 10 people came to your site from IE? What site is that traffic from? Did you have an article hit digg or something?
i’m willing to try it out just to see if it works more efficiently than FireFox… if it’s faster than Firefox and isn’t IE, then i’ll use it
Hi folks,
While I was taking a look at my Google Analytics reports this morning, I saw that Google Chrome is now fully supported!
Check your analytics
Gautier.
Magnet Search Marketing
They probably felt silly that some small independent third party company was getting all the press for supporting it out of the gate, when their own product didn’t.
I just saw they updated their blog post on the analytics blog. It used to say Chrome support would be added “in several weeks”, and now it says, “very soon”. LOL
Exactly. I added it to my web analytics service in 2 seconds… Maybe because GA isn’t real-time analytics, they knew they had a day or so before they actually had to do it.
lets just wait for a while more. Too early to say if it is going to be a big hit or not.
I used Chrome for exactly 4 days before switching back to ff..