The latest monthly browser usage stats indicates an even sharper drop in marketshare for Microsoft's Internet Explorer since the browser ballot was launched in the European Union on 1 March 2010. Although Internet Explorer's marketshare still dominates, it is certainly under growing threat, especially from the likes of Google's Chrome browser, who's marketshare has essentially exploded since it was launch not even 2 years ago.

 As you can see on the chart below, Google Chrome accounts for almost 7% of the browser market share and is climbing steadily. Internet Explorer has dropped below 60% marketshare. It is interesting to note how many users are still using IE6. According to hitslink, approximately 18% of worldwide users still use IE6. This figure obviously include large coorporations that have not gone through the upgrade path yet, as well as users who are unable to upgrade due to bandwidth restrictions or Microsoft copyright infringements(illegal copies of their Windows OS etc).

 

There are many different browser usage statistics sources available on the web. I used http://marketshare.hitslink.com/ .


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