Internet Explorer Popular Worldwide, Chrome Popular in Azerbaijan
Company Net Applications released the August statistics on global browser market for personal computers and mobile devices.
The most common browser for desktop computers is traditionally Internet Explorer - its share in the last month was 53.60% compared to 53.93% in July and 55.31% a year earlier. In the second place there is Firefox, holding 20.05% of the market. A month earlier, the browser took 20.16%, and in August of 2011 - 22.57%.
Against the background of relative decline in their popularity increases the muscle of Chrome with 19.13% of the market. Last month, the share of this package equaled 18.88%, and a year ago - 15.51%.
They are followed by Safari and Opera with a score of 5.10 and 1.58%, respectively. In August 2011, the share of these browsers was 4.64 and 1.68%.
In the mobile segment Safari remains the undisputed leader with 66.43%, followed by the browser for Android and Opera Mini from 19.97 and 8.59% of the market.
Incidentally, the local users of Internet services prefer the browser Chrome.
According to the latest Global Stats (http://gs.statcounter.com/#browser-AZ-monthly-201109-201209), from September 2011 to September 2012 it was slightly ahead of its main competitor Opera. It started with 27% last year and reached 41% in it. The competitor was leading with 31%, now it is used by 37.5% of users.
Three other popular browsers showed the following growth (decline): Internet Explorer fell from 26 to 11%, Mozilla Firefox - from 15 to 9%, Safari during the year is held at 1% popularity among the citizens of Azerbaijan. Other browsers have an even smaller audience and are not represented in the list of popular Internet guides. - 17D-
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