Tracking Chrome (and other browsers)
SInce the launch of Google Chrome a few days ago there has been a lot of speculation as to whether it’s good enough to compete with Firefox and IE. Now that Analytics has started to recognise Chrome in it’s browser list we can start to see how things are moving.
Of course, for a design showcase site we’re always going to have a slightly skewed view of browser usage compared to more mainstream sites but it’s still fun to check. Since Monday 1st September our percentages are:
- Firefox (all versions) – 61.66%
- Internet Explorer (all versions) – 20.84%
- Safari (all versions) – 10.04%
- Chrome – 4.97%
- Opera (all versions) – 1.63%
- Camino/Konquerer/Mozilla – the rest
For a browser in beta and not fully released Chrome isn’t doing too badly. As I said though, this clearly isn’t a fair result overall – Firefox at over 60%!
In case you’re wondering, those figures are based on just over 1,000 visits and 3,500 pageviews over about 4.5 days.
