Checking back in Google Analytics to see how Google Chrome usage is trending now that the browser has been out in the wild for two weeks. A couple of days after launching on September 2, 6.23% of visitors to TechCrunch were using Chrome. Today usage is up to 8.12% over the period since launch. (It may soon overtake Safari, which is at 8.84%).
Unlike our first measure, where Chrome usage seemed to be taking away from IE browser share (Firefox usage was actually up), this time Firefox is down nearly 7 points, and IE is way up. I’m surprised that Chrome usage remains so high. When we first measured it a lot of people were still testing it out. But they are continuing to use it two weeks later, which suggests they like it. A lot. And only 77% of our readers are coming from Windows machines – as Chrome expands to the Mac and Linux platforms usage will certainly increase further.
Here are the current stats. And a bonus chart – I hadn’t noticed that iPhone users made up over 1% of total TechCrunch traffic as well.
This statistics is really surprising! Firefox addons like iMacros and Delicious add so much value, that I have not touched my Chrome browser even once the last week. And most of my coworkers feel the same.
the more googl works on a efficiency browser the more they work themselves out of a job. keep people confused asking for our “searchspam” is there main agenda. a browser that eliminates “googlspam” search results and breeds efficency is what can put it googl out of business.
“true efficiency is googls worst enemy.”
http://www.kill...locator-network
Numbers of the past 2 days from my more mainstream site:
1. Internet Explorer 27,675 73.48%
2. Firefox 9,040 24.00%
3. Opera 552 1.47%
4. Chrome 286 0.76%
5. Safari 51 0.14%
> Unlike our first measure, where Chrome usage seemed to be taking away from IE
> browser share (Firefox usage was actually up), this time Firefox is down nearly 7
> points, and IE is way up.
I comparing your last data with the one from Sept. 2nd and it seems that 5% of FF users went to Chrome and 5% went to IE. The former is possible but the latter is strange unless they are all testing the new IE8 beta. Maybe your visitors vary too much on daily basis, so you might consider looking at the weekly averaged data.
Comparing the data above to the original post two weeks ago:
Firefox: 57.8% down to 51%
IE: 24% up to 29%
Safari: 9% no change
Chrome: 6.23% up to 8.12%
My interpretation:
* Most Chrome users moved from FF3 to Chrome
* Users are (very) pleased with IE7/8 and aren’t moving to Chrome at all. (I’m surprised!)
* Safari users highly loyal to their browse.
Congratulations to Koogle. They’ve funded an open-source, great company for years (Mozilla) and now they’re killing it with their own open-source, me-too browser Chrome. Great strategy!
My bad about Safari of course. Chrome for Mac hasn’t launched. Would be interesting seeing the effect on Safari post-launch.
try out IE 8…it is surprisingly fast and has some cool features..
I am writing this using CrossOver Chromium under Mac OS X, so you have now the Chrome Experience on this platform too.
http://pimm.wor...sover-chromium/
I’m using chrome as my primary browser, but switch to FF if I need to use an add on (usually firebug).
I’m loving Chrome, but with only just convincing my friends to use FF I don’t think I’ll be getting them to change any time soon
chrome is catching up fast, looks like it will take over other browsers.
I’m with Firefox, because of its default looks.
Chrome does not allow me to scroll UP using the synaptic touch pad on my laptop. Other than that there is no reason why I should not use chrome.
Same here. I can’t use Chrome until they fix that stupid bug. Other than that, I love it.
People know google, they go for it.
But i hated ui of chrome. I change tab fast, and i have to move mouse all the way to top.. they should at least give option to change color of browser as basic settings. and new tab cant i make it blank?????
You could try the keyboard shortcuts to move between tabs fast. ctrl 1-9 and ctrl page up/down. Third party themes are all over the net for changing colour and the blank tab option can be set up in options.
Its fast and robust over long periods of time without bring your pc to a standstill and consuming vast amounts of resources, close the tabs and the memory drops back down, that counts for something, and of course if you care about the underlying technology and have read the comic and watched the presson the value is compelling.
I have put it though some intense real word usage test and it can take the punishment especially on all the ajax web apps. Plus the workarounds like the bookmarklets for a lot of addons like delicious, google notebook etc and adblocking that keep on turning up makes it easier to make the transition. The spell checker is a letdown though.
What I want to know is…who are these hardcore nerds that are using SunOS?
Seriously, does it even have a browser?
Solaris is usually identified as SunOS. It is a typical Unix and runs most of the open-source software including Gnome, KDE, Firefox etc.
However, there is a small possibility that those 0.02% are true geeks using old good SunOS SPARC systems and text-based browser, e.g. “Links”
I’m mostly with firefox now but thinking to adapt in chrome soon.
mostly people think firefox, safari and IE are there the best
Interesting figures. However, from my experience figures in Germany differ quite significantly from that. I’ve published figures on Webwilderer that show that Chrome only ranks 5th after Firexfox, IE, Safari and Opera with only 0.84%. These figures, which were collected yesterday, refer to a fast growing language blog in Germany called Der Englisch-Blog.
In a nutshell, I use Chrome because it’s fast. It might not matter in the Valley, but for a 256MB of RAM PC it makes a world of difference. I can understand why Google wouldn’t want to push it more strongly now (beta, etc.), but I feel it has some chance of penetrating deeply in a 3rd World market like Brazil if it’s pushed through Orkut after its final release. We’re full of those crappy PCs that could benefit a lot from Chrome’s speed.
I’m still seeing around 1%. It’s just behind Opera.
I tried it and still think it needs more features to keep up with Firefox or Opera.
useless stats, TCers might use chrome, but the real word numbers are probably below 1%
Its clearly down to the profile of the visitors that techcrunch receives. Quite busy sites i’m familiar with in the UK are seeing less the 1% for Chrome.
A little bit off-topic but do you know if Opera Mini is included in the Opera numbers? Or is it using some kind of Mozilla user agent? I would like to know how many people are using it on their cell phones to browse kind of “daily news pages” like Techcrunch.
Thanks,
Thorben
Chrome is awesome.
The only thing I really miss (from Firefox) is mouse gestures.
Seriously, I can’t wait for the Mac version.
I’m having a better time using my Windows laptop these days because of Chrome. Can’t wait to see what they do next. It’ll be interesting – they obviously have a lightweight philosophy, but there are some features that would certainly benefit the browser.
Doers it surprise you that 68% of Chromespot visitors (30,028) in the past week use Chrome? 22.8% FireFox and 6.11% IE and then 2.2% and .75% Safari/Opera.
The sample size is 43,000 so its huge… with an OBVIOUS bias. People likely arrive, download chrome, surf around trying to fix their problems and chatting and whatnot.
Just thought this was an interesting anecdote!
In terms of fast, it’s definitely fast and light on the OS. I like it, but at this time, it’s going to take A LOT to break my dependence on Firefox’s add-ons (Gmail Manager, Foxmarks, PicLens, Web Developer, FireGestures, etc).
I do use Chrome for the quick and dirty tasks though (paying bills, etc), but for real browsing, FF is it.
If you look at your google analytics or other webanalytics tool, you’ll notice that the visits from Chrome browser (yesterday for example) are equal to last monday where ALL the other browser have +15 to +25% of visits.
I think people don’t see the real advantage of Chrome espacially when you have a firefox that is customized and performing and IE that is still N1
Really not bad for a beta.
I am just a bit concerned about the proliferation of security flaws the massive usage of this less-than-secure browser will lead to.
Here’s how things have looked for us, with 50% US audience, mostly in the 14-25 age group.
http://www.mybl...fullsize/eaIS7i
Only 0.8% chrome among the young. It’d be interesting if you ran the same graphic on techcrunch using “Compare to past”
yeah your stats seem more oriented to the base web users, whereas techcrunch is more early adopters and high tech
Does anyone else feel guilty for using Chrome?
I loved FireFox, and they kicked IE in the ass just when it was needed. But then I jumped ship in a flash.
I didn’t really trick out FF with plug-ins, so I wasn’t locked-in. FireBug is the only one really.
Guilty feelings for using Chrome? Definitely. I just convinced family members, senior citizens no less, to switch to Firefox.
My only problem with Chrome has been that I’m unable to leave comments anywhere. In fact, I’m using Firefox to leave this.
And? Chrome isn’t gonna take over any part of the browser market.
I have a web in Slovakian language (general news), and the statistics are:
IE – 52.69% (and of this, 53% is IE6)
FF – 37%
Opera – 8.2%
Safari – 1.12%
Chrome – 0.37%
I didn’t know anyone was still using Chrome after the slew of security issues that popped up. But then again I guess most people don’t concern themselves with petty issues like that.
what issues? please give links
Until Chrome is fully functional on Mac OS X it can’t truly be judged by a significant percentage of early adopters.
I’m surprised you’re seeing an upward trend. On the Clicky global stats page that TC linked to a few weeks ago, the value continues to go down on a daily basis. (This is across 49,000 sites). It peaked at around 3% the first day but has since declined to 1.7%. Go the link below to see for yourself:
http://getclick...hare-statistics
Hi I really was put down by chrome.I downloaded only for the fact that it comes for the stables of google and it has disappointed me a lot.I am unable to see many of my default settings in regular websites and I am not able to attach much of the documents even in gmail using chrome.
Same thing happens to other sites. On my site it has a lower value but it is quite stable.
Interesting stats. I’m still not seeing very much Chrome out there, but I’m sure what is out there is more techie-related. I don’t think it will hit the masses for a while, if ever. I like it, but it’s like any other browser – I don’t really see hugely significant differences, although I do like being able to move tabs around and out of windows.
In fourth place, just shy of Safari, simply amazing.
September stats for my social network:
FF – 59.21%
Opera – 18.07%
IE – 12.69%
Chrome – 6.94%
Safari – 2.35%
Mozilla, Camino, Konqueror – < 0.4%
Well.. it’s a bit geeky social network
We’re seeing .8% Chrome.
TC is not really a good sample, I’d be curious to see Google or Yahoo’s numbers, or better yet something like CNN.
nice, thanks for posting this.
Don’t forget that Techcrunch stats are going to skew towards early adopters, etc.
I’ve pulled some more representative stats from our analytics here: http://status.h...n-not-that-high
Apologies in advance for the micro-thumbnails. I’ll fix it later, but I’m in a bit of a rush right now.
^ Exactly. These stats are high as hell because TechCrunch readers are into – well – tech, so they adopted early and at a higher rate. Websites frequented by normal folk still have far lower percentages.
*takes captain obvious hat off*
ff is good enough for me. i didnt even bother d/l chrome
For me it’s pretty easy – I have set up an application shortcut for Google Reader and now whatever links I am opening – they open in Chrome. There you have it, I solved it for ya
There’s a tech bias for this blog that’s affecting your stats. The sites I SEO for get ~1000 – 10,000 hits a day, have NO bias towards a technical audience, and are getting more like .34% visitors using Chrome browsers. It really hasn’t “hit” yet.
Very interesting. Thanks for sharing this stuff, Michael!
More posts about Chrome please! I’m dying to know how many of the dumbasses that read this blog are using a crap web browser… Seriously, Opera has better performance, and INVENTED all of the features Chrome and FF get all the attention for… So please eat my ass. Maybe the % would be lower if you fixed the BUG on TC that doesn’t allow opera users to post comments!!
I’m part of the huge 0.04% of Konqueror users.
Really, I don’t use Konqueror too much, but it is integrated as a kpart into Akregator, my RSS reader, which I usually use to load TechCrunch articles in tabs to comment on. I do end up surfing from inside Akregator sometimes though.
I use Seamonkey, Firefox (testing releases lately), and Links -g mostly for my web browsing. Right now I also happen to have Opera 9.6 beta 1 open.
21.65% for me at the anti-google-baloney.. and that is just 15 days of its launch (Chromes)
Its amazing….
http://the-anti...beep-beeps.html
Across our very diverse client sites (nearly 100), we’re seeing less than 0.5%.