Until today Google was saying Google Analytics would not track Chrome usage for some time. Today they added Chrome tracking, allowing site owners to see how many of their users are coming to the site from the Chrome Browser.
Clicky continues to track Chrome usage in the 2-3% range across its 45,000 sites. Use of Chrome among TechCrunch readers is much higher: 6.23% since Tuesday, making it the fourth most popular browser among TechCrunch readers after Firefox, IE and Safari.
Nearly all the market share was taken from IE. Firefox actually gained almost 2% share in the last two days, and Safari was up more than 1%. IE, though, dropped from 30.77% to 23.92%. Compare our previous chart without Chrome to this, taken a few minutes ago:
The fact that a large percentage of readers are using Chrome doesn’t surprise me, given how many early adopter types read this blog. But i expected these users to be bailing on Firefox, not IE. If they hadn’t switched away from IE after four years of Firefox being around, it seems odd that they would jump ship now.
Very slow!
Great post. But don’t we have to wait until Chrome is available on Apple operating systems before assessing its impact on Safari share?
I’ve switched from IE to Chrome. I’ve tried FF before and have found it to be increasingly slow, a good 15 seconds to start on my machine and didn’t find a lot of benefit from it’s addons.
Chrome on the other hand I find to be easy to use, fast and seems to be doing everything I want so far. I’ve also heard people complaining about Chrome not working with some sites, but I haven’t found those sites yet.
Hey, my stats are very similar to yours – 55.56% FF, 31.62% IE and in at number 3, the big G with 7.69% for chrome.
My feedburner counter is also almost the same as TC’s (do I see a K there??) .
One of those days, everyone will understand they need open source ERP to run their family – finance, production (1.8 kids), purchasing, spend analysis.
What do you say Mike, can you throw some link juice my way? just trying to make a buck..
Why didn’t google team up with ff? They could have now released a spiffy usable browser.
Don’t they give a flying-fcuk?
Though why would any programmer contribute to ff with a ceo making $500+K?
It would be perfect if Google Chrome is Firefox 4 or something… I’m a long term Firefox user and now I’m using Chrome, though I lose the following that Firefox used to provide:
1) press an RSS button and add to Google reader
2) Flv download add-on
3) Do not have AD Blocker
4) Thunder plug-in, have to copy download link and then let Thunder do the job.
Tootoo, your stupidity is hilarious.
“Why didn’t google team up with ff?” Until about 2 years ago, Google dedicated more full time paid engineers to work on the FireFox browser than any other company.
“Though why would any programmer contribute to ff with a ceo making $500+K?”. Where do you think FireFox’s parent company, Mozilla, makes that money from? It’s main income is, er, Google – through it’s agreement to be the preferred search engine.
You make me laugh my ass off, Tootoo. Literally, my anal canal is on the floor.
We made our Chrome tracking page just a general global marketshare page now, for all browsers and operating systems. Later today we’ll be adding historical graphs (24 hours and 30 days) for each one individually.
http://getclick...hare-statistics
I haven’t done any side by side comparison but you cannot tell me Firefox with the adblock and flashblock addons is slower than Chrome.
HJ:
Sure I can. Chrome loads the web almost instantaneously, without any additional plugin crap required.
not with flash… I found chrome playing youtube videos not as smooth as Firefox does.
Smart move by Google: Under promise & over deliver.
Smart move by Google: put a link to Chrome on your monopoly homepage and bundle a non-news mediocre product (browser in this case) to your monopoly service.
Schmoogle are they’re taking a page from MS’s book. When Schmidt talks about MS he’s just imitating them. One Darth Vaider replaced by another one. It’s exactly like bundling a service through a monopoly OS.
A monopoly is a monopoly. You won’t be able to beat anything that gets a link on the google homepage. Just like you won’t be able to compete with anything that Microsoft ships with their OS. It’s only a matter of time before google would have go get approvals for textlinks on their homepage just like MS has to do with anything they consider doing with their OS.
Do you think your mobile service would be able to compete once Schmoogle starts marketing their own services on Android? omg, dream on!
“Monopoly”
I do not think it means what you think it means.
You can’t use another home page? Switching is too difficult? You can’t use the internet without it? Wow.
Chrome is now the 5th most popular browser on our site. Incredible how quickly the market adopted this browser!
A client of ours has had 800,000 unique visitors yesterday and today and the Chrome stats are only 0.8% for them. Its a mainstream site not a tech site.
I thought Flock would at least make the cut.
Flock is FF, as is Songbird.
Chrome doesn’t have Adblock Plus, so it won’t work for me.
totally agree with you
omg check this out. I’m running a site called http://www.GoogleGeeks.com. 94% of traffic now comes from Chrome, with 12% coming from FF3 and 8% from Opera. The rest, (-14%) comes from IE8 users who hate MS so much that they are actually driving negative share. unbelievable!
I’ve got another site called Yahoo.com and we now have 0.4% coming from Chrome. Geographically-wise it’s all coming from Mountain View. How bizarre!
that link, as of writing this, is a default landing page – idiot.
Post it, when it works – and besides, I think using Google in the domain is some kind of copyright issue
and you, comment when you learned to understand irony
Best TC comment ever.
hahahahahaahha!
On a site that seems to have about 3x the Firefox usage global average, from a user base that leans heavily towards early adopters, I wonder how reasonable it would be to just assume that the other numbers of alternative browsers might be seeing a similar multiplier.
The reason I have not moved to FF after all these years is that it still feels (on my PC for the sites I use at least) slower than IE, and the way it renders pages feels very clunky. That’s a wishy washy complaint but enough to not make me move over.
Meanwhile, Chrome is very fast, renders cleanly, and I can tell a big difference in performance with many tabs open. As soon as a few kinks I’ve noticed are worked out, I’ll be making it my default.
People use Safari over Opera…funny….
Chrome accounts for 0.70% of our browser traffic on Fan History in the past two days. I don’t think the average user is going to make the switch because the major selling point seems to be SHINY! and from google.
I have used Chrome and liked it. But I’m going to stick with FF for now. Chrome has to be evolve more for me to leave FF.
This is quite a hype around Chrome. I would like to see these stats in 2 months.
Also, can you please show us the extended version, the one with operating systems as well ?
Stats on my non-tech sites are running a lot lower, but they’re not statistically significant yet with only the two days.
I’m not sure Chrome is going to cut (just) into the Firefox market. I suspect there are a lot of everyday users out there who see FF as too techie. Google has a great brand reputation and they’ll be willing to give it a try. It will be interesting to see how Google markets it and how much and how quickly some of it’s open source innards will show up in other browsers.
i used chrome just for a day and reverted to back FF. it consumes lotsa memory and my system hung up few times. FF is – THE BROWSER
Another cool comparison is what Net Applications shows at their tracking site. It’s a shame that they took down the hourly tracking for Firefox 3’s first few days, but they’re doing it again for Chrome.
http://marketsh...stom=Chrome+0.2
Chrome hit about 1% in their tracking in the first day. Firefox 3.0 hit 4% in the first day. (and no, this was not Firefox’s update system which didn’t get turned on until just about a week ago.)
http://blog.moz...y-after-launch/
As long as Chrome does not support Firefox extensions, I see no need for Firefox to worry. Extensions like Adblock, BlogRovr or iMacros are what makes Firefox unique. And *if* Chrome adds extension support, it will be slower, too, because flexibility does have a performance price tag
And on a different note: With a link on the Google main page, you can push any browser from 0 to 3%-6% in a few days!
Actually, does anybody know if it would be technically possible for Chrome to support FX extensions?
I switched from IE to Chrome
My condolences, Chico. And thanks for sharing. I am opening a support group for you guys which will be available at the world’s leading social networking site, Orkut.
btw, i just wondered: are you getting a rev share from the additional ads Google is going to make off crawling every URL you’re entering in your browser? because i don’t. even MS didn’t go (yet) that low.
i’m keeping to FF3 and IE8 which have everything that Chrome has, and then some.
Could you just STFU and go back to work at yahoo? You are obviously needed cause your company is flailing? Go check the stock price, then do something instead of ball ache about your competitor.
Stuart
Time for your meds. There you go drink up, are you feeling better? Good, now go weave a new basket for Nurse Ratchet.
We’re seeing 0,8% chrome users today (we have a few hundred thousand casual gamers/day on our sites). I guess it takes a while for the mainstream to pick up chrome. Besides, with lots of sites not supporting chrome yet (ours for example), there’s the chicken and egg problem. Add the lack of FF plugins that I personally use and people will easily revert to FF again.
I just run a little personal site, but I’m getting 0.15%, which may be a bit more realistic, considering tech sites would probably have more Chrome users right now. I don’t know who is covered in the 45,000 sites that Get Clicky is analyzing, but if there are more tech sites, or if the bigger sites that are tracked are tech related, the percentage may be a little inflated. I don’t know, though. Just not convinced that Chrome’s taking the world by storm in three days of existence.
Looking at the data, Chrome represents 13%+ of activity to the blog over the last two days, and only 2% to the corporate site I track as well. Not surprising, given our own coverage of Chrome this week.
Even more impressive is the almost 60% of FF users. Wait till Chrome comes on the Mac. I bet the numbers jump a lot.
It won’t be that much really, as much as I love mac, it’s a still a windows world (that’s why they released first on windows, more bang for the buck). On big sites you probably get what, 5% mac users coming? tops 10% it’s still a minority.
I’ve always used IE but i am really impressed with Chrome, its really fast and easy to use!
I’ve seen 1.7% yesterday and 0.9% today on a computer science homepage. Not much internal use so far, could see it being twice as high for *our site* if there were Linux and Mac OS X versions. It will be interesting to see who actually sticks with it, since I suspect most people are just curious.
I know several Windows users that have tried other browsers but went back to IE, mostly because they find it faster to load – perhaps because they actually “close” the browser, but with IE it seems that Windows really is just keeping it running. I think this is the type of IE user that would switch, i.e. someone who has tried other browsers in the past but has never had a good enough reason to switch.
The market share data is totally meaningless right now. People download stuff to try it, then revert back.
Funny is that Chrome is speedy although it sends every single url you enter to the Google HQ first. Checked this with NetStat before I deinstalled Chrome.
No need to worry for Mozilla for the moment. And since Chrome is closed code, we’ll have to wait until a community builds a better browser out of the Chromium sources.
At this point Chrome is nothing more than a trojan and keylogger that the Google Fanboys are downloading optional.
It sends every CHARACTER you enter in the Omnibox to GOOG.
So 6.23% of early adopters are using it.
Our site, which boasts 70k unique a day (60% US) has registered only 0.38% the last 2 days.
I had to install the IE Tabs add-on to my FF install because some pages just weren’t loading right. Sort of defeats the purpose of using FF. I love all of the add-ons, but when I put on the add-ons I find most useful, FF bloats and becomes a chore to use. Chrome has been much faster and with fewer display issues than FF so far.
Simple reason why I switched from IE to Chrome and didn’t switch to FF over the last four years: FF install requires admin rights on my work PC and Chrome doesn’t. I would’ve switched to FF long ago if I could have.
No need to split the market too much. Google just needs to ensure: 1) MSFT adheres to Javascript standards, 2) JS Performance is a user expectations, and 3) Users have alternatives absent 1 or 2. My prediction (after reading many posts re: opposite): a) Google keeps supporting Mozilla (no need to dominate browser market — presenting 3 main options to users is better), and b) Apple forks Chrome to create a branded version and drops Safari (they only wanted webkit and JS to be RIA foundations).
Have no doubt this will now happen. MSFT just suffered a huge competitive hit — after gosh knows how many years of making life miserable for web developers, and users.
That is amazing. Something prompted IE users to get up and install, when all of firefox’s benefits didn’t.
Well I run a saucy sexy website for boys http://babestation.tv/home and none of you naughty geeks have turned up using chrome yet. In fact, the only usage I can see is from when I tested the site out. It just seems so far that the geeky boys have been playing with their toys and it will be a while yet till our normal users switch over. I guess we give them something else to think about
It has been mentioned before in other ways, but …
If it’s Google, people will flock to it as if it was some sort of God. //REALITY CHECK// It’s not.
Oh, it’s faster by how much? 3% faster than Firefox? Woohoo. Let’s all go spend £60 on Crucial Ballistix RAM instead of £15 on generic ones to get that extra 3% performance from our memory.
I mean, “marginally faster” than FF doesn’t cut it. If it was wildly faster and Google wasn’t so interested in getting my home address, credit card details and ownership rights to my soul…then I might actually go see if it works on Linux yet.
Dude, seriously, it’s okay. You can keep Firefox, no one is telling you to quit using it. But, just for the record, Chrome is like lightening compared to Firefox. Plus, there are many features to Chrome that Firefox (nor IE) have ever supported. Like this cool feature: Open two separate windows. Open a TAB in one window, drag that TAB from one window into another…. Bet you’ve never seen that before.
you can do that on ff
不知道chrome会不会一直流行呢？
The number of readers using firefox is much bigger then it using IE. That’s a exciting trend。
PS: @Sexy Amanda
Real geeks don’t need porn. They’re too busy doing other things, like considering Schrodinger’s problems.
The Geek is looking at porn…
The Geek is not looking at porn…?
When attempting to view TechCrunch.com using Chrome, I’m seeing an error page that says, ‘Aw, Snap! Something went wrong while displaying this webpage. To continue, press Reload or go to another page.’ Same for several other popular sites including Chris Pirillo’s chris.pirillo.com and Mashable.com
IE FTL. That’s why.
@Codemonkey I didn’t know he had a pussy?
Mike – reason people may switch from IE could be that, for many novice users, Google IS the internet.
For the same reason that people type URLs into the Google search box, when they see the link “Download Chrome – the new browser from Google” on their Google homepage they’re likely to read it as “Download the new internet”…
just checked google analytics to see what % of visitors are using Chrome – on ProBlogger it is 4.18% and on Digital Photography School it is 7.95%. I thought it’d be the other way around as DPS has a less tech savvy audience. Still pretty amazing.
Actually many casual web users would definitely install and use Chrome instead of IE, just as they figured how to install Skype to make phone calls.
Thing is, those casual web users might not trust Firefox that much for now. But trusting Google products is much easier for them.
Those casual users already are more and more switching over to using Gmail and Google Docs.