The continuing rise in popularity of the Google Chrome browser took it past the milestone of 20% worldwide market share for browsers, according to StatCounter, the free website analytics company.
From 2.8% in June 2009, Chrome rose to a worldwide share of 20.7% in June 2011. Internet Explorer from Microsoft slid from 59% to 44% during the same period.
StatCounter's method of tracking highlights Google's strength of attracting power users. Another usage tracker, Net Applications too shows Chrome rising fast, up to more than 13% usage in comparison to IE's 54% and Firefox's 22%.
The groups count differently as Net Applications tracks the total number of users for a browser while StatCounter measures the total number of website clicks. This means that the StatCounter ranking gives more weight to a Chrome user who surfs the Web more often than an Internet Explorer user.
The performance of Chrome has been particularly well in South America where it overtook Firefox in April to become the number two browser. In June it touched 29.7%, ahead of Firefox's 24.6% and behind IE at 44.1%.
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