Connoisseurs of technology users prefer chrome

Summary: NetMarketshare says that Internet Explorer is the browser choice in general terms, but readers ZDNet as more than any other Web browser chrome.

If you believe that figures NetMarketshare, Internet Explorer (IE) not only leading Web browser popularity contest in September 2013, with 51.09%, is actually expanding its advantage. But tens of millions of monthly readers ZDNet have a different favorite: chrome.

On behalf of NetMarketShare, IE is the first Web browser.

Breaking figures NetMarketShare, we see that IE is still the dominant browser with a split with the equality between IE8 decrease to 21.3 per cent and increase in IE10 to 19.5 percent of the market.

IE gains came mostly at the expense of fourth Safari, which left more than one percentage point the 11.19 percent. Firefox, came in second, with a slight gain at 16.39%. Chrome also made a slight gain, retain third place with 14.87%.

NetMarketShare massage ts data to reflect the number of Internet users by country. StatCounter, which do not massage your data in this way, shows a world totally different from your Web browser.

StatCounter, however, sees chrome on the top by a comfortable margin.

According to StatCounter, Chrome is the world leader of the Web browser with 40.8 percent. IE, which has been gaining in Chrome since August, is still very from behind with 28.56%. Firefox, which has been in a long, slow decline, has the third place with 18.36%; Safari is in fourth place with 8.52 percent and the remains of the opera, as ever, present in the list top five with 1.16 percent.

Tens of millions of visitors to the ZDNet Web site also prefer chrome by a wide margin. In the most recent numbers available the site since August, 29.8 percent of ZDNet page views came from Chrome users. IE ranked second with 19.9 percent and Firefox was in third place, with 13.2 percent. Coating on the back was a Safari with 4.7 percent and operates with 0.5 percent. 27.7 percent of browsers could not be identified.

Of course ZDNet readers aren't normal Internet users. They tend to be very interested in the technology and the business of technology or do not visit the site. You can also see this in its rate of adoption of 9.4 percent of the relatively new IE10, and how some of them, 0.4 per cent, still using the IE 7 now obsolete.

Thus, while some people, using numbers NetMarketShare, are claiming that IE has won the war of browsers, ZDNet both StatCounter's numbers indicate that the battle between Chrome and IE is still raging - and Chrome, for now, still has the advantage.

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Topics: Networking, Google, Microsoft, Web development

Steven, aka sjvn, has written about the technology and the business of technology from leading edge PC operating system CP/M-80. SJVN covered by networks, Linux, open source, and operating systems.

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