Chrome grabs 1% of browser market in under 24 hours

Users flock to Google's browser; it's unclear what they're ditching

(Computerworld) Google Inc.'s new Chrome browser grabbed 1% of the browser market in its first day out in public, Web metrics providers said today.

Both U.S.-based tracking company Net Applications Inc. and Irish vendor StatCounter put Chrome's total market share at around 1%, less than 24 hours after the browser's launch, passing rivals such as Opera and Netscape in the process.

"This is a phenomenal performance," said CEO Aodhan Cullen, in a post to StatCounter's blog today. StatCounter, which provides free visitor statistics tools to Web developers, monitors traffic on the sites run by its 1.5 million members.

Net Applications also tracked Chrome's debut and echoed StatCounter's numbers. "We saw them peak at 1.48% last night, and they're hovering around 1% currently," said Vince Vizzaccaro, executive vice president of marketing at Net Applications, in an e-mail this morning.

According to Net Applications, which is tracking Chrome's hourly numbers, Google's browser jumped from zero to 0.4% during the hour it was released yesterday. Nine hours later, at midnight EDT, Chrome accounted for 1% of the browsers used to visit the 40,000 or so sites that the company monitors for clients. ..............


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Well done Chrome.
I think the flocking to Chrome is only because of the speed, they have not optimization yet.

I won't be suprised is they catch up with firefox anytime soon.

Agreed.

It's good to see Chrome on the market to make browsers compete to be the best, thereby giving us a great choice between very good browsers .

Yeah. I agree too. But i think it's not as fast as some peoples think. I already try it, and nothing special. But it's just BETA, let's wait a lill

The way google does things hp just awesome