News: Internet Explorer falling behind as Google Chrome speeds ahead

Microsoft's Internet Explorer (IE) browser has fallen below 50% of the worldwide market for the first time according to website traffic information provider StatCounter.

The company's research arm, StatCounter Global Stats finds that Microsoft IE fell to 49.87% in September followed by Firefox with 31.5%. Google's Chrome continues to increase marketshare at an impressive rate and has more than tripled from 3.69% in September 2009 to 11.54% in September this year.

"This is certainly a milestone in the Internet browser wars," commented Aodhan Cullen, CEO, StatCounter. "Just two years ago IE dominated the worldwide market with 67%."

He added that Microsoft's agreement with European Commission competition authorities to offer EU users a choice and menu of browsers from March may have tipped IE below 50% globally.

In Europe, IE market share has fallen to 40.26% in September this year from 46.44% in September last year. In North America IE is still above 50% at 52.3% followed by Firefox at 27.21% and Chrome at 9.87%.

The rise of Google Chrome in North America has also been impressive and in June it overtook Apple’s Safari browser for the first time.

StatCounter Global Stats are based on aggregate data collected by StatCounter on a sample exceeding 15 billion page views per month collected from across the StatCounter network of more than 3 million websites.

StatCounter, which provides free website traffic information, publishes browser stats in its StatCounter Global Stats, a free online research tool. It also monitors internet market share battles including search engines, social media and operating systems including mobile.

Internet Explorer falling behind as Google Chrome speeds ahead

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