Chrome overtakes Safari, now holds Third place in US Browser Market

Written on June 28th, 2010 at 18:25 pm by shredder12

According to the statcounter's last week update, Chrome has finally overtaken Safari and has now earned Third position in the US Browser market. On an International scale, Chrome is way ahead of Safari, with more than twice its market share, but for the first time it has conquered it in United States.

Based on an analysis of 3.6 billion pageview, 874 milliion from US alone, for the week starting from 21st to 27th June, Chrome now stands at 8.97% and Safari at 8.88%. IE leads with 52% followed by Firefox at 28.5%

With respect to a browser released only two years ago, this is a big news for Google Chrome.

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