Web analytics firm WebTrends reported today that mainstream Internet users are “embracing” the Google Chrome browser. In the third week since its launch, WebTrends states that Google Chrome is the fourth most popular browser used by visitors to the web site of The Daily Telegraph, Britain’s highest selling newspaper. WebTrends puts the figure at “nearly 2 percent” of the total traffic to telegraph.co.uk, which it says is more than Netscape, Mozilla, Opera and other browsers. Presumably the browsers above it are IE, Firefox and Safari.
Here at tech-focused site ReadWriteWeb, the last couple of weeks of Google Analytics data shows that about 7.25% of our readers are visiting using Chrome.
Here’s a screenshot of RWW stats from the last couple of weeks:
Compare this to the month of August, when our browser stats looked like this:
Clearly Chrome has taken share from both Firefox (3.93%) and IE (4.7%), for our tech-savvy readers. However Safari’s share has gone up a little on our site in September. Time will tell whether these trends continue, but for now Chrome is continuing at a solid 7% + for our site. Not bad when you consider that our readers are also statistically more likely than the general population to use Macs – which Chrome isn’t available on yet. 18.28% of our August readers were Mac users, with 75.68% Windows.
More importantly, Chrome looks to be close to establishing itself as the 4th most popular browser in the mainstream market – which is bad news for Opera.
