4 Percent of The VAR Guy’s Readers Run Google Chrome Web Browser
Firefox, the open source Web browser, remains a dominant force among The VAR Guy's readership, representing 63.28% of site visits on September 9 and 10. That was followed by:
- Microsoft Internet Explorer, 20.65%
- Apple Safari, 4.43%
Here’s to the next generation IT channel. The VAR Guy’s readership continues to master new technologies. For instance, 3.99% of www.thevarguy.com visitors now run Google Chrome. Not bad for a one-week-old Web browser. Here’s a breakdown of the browsers readers use when visiting this site.
Firefox, the open source Web browser, remains a dominant force among The VAR Guy’s readership, representing 63.28% of site visits on September 9 and 10. That was followed by:
- Microsoft Internet Explorer, 20.65%
- Apple Safari, 4.43%
- Google Chrome, 3.99%
- Opera, 3.03%
- Other, 4.62%
Hmmm. The VAR Guy himself jumps between Safari and Firefox. Perhaps it’s time to give Chrome a look.
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I guess my Konqueror will show up under “other”.
{sniff}
Just a guess but I’m thinking Google’s crawlers for its core search business may be reporting themselves as Chrome now. That 4% may include very few real users.
@Bob: Konqueror was 1.28%.
@Scott: You couldn’t let The VAR Guy and the Google Chrome team enjoy the moment?
Imagine a release of Google Linux! this could be a big win for Linux and open source
Hey VAR guy, are you seeing an uptake in Linux usage? Pundant reports show around 1%, but I think its much more.
Linux is much better than a 1% OS. OK, I gave up Windows for Linux in 2000 and there is no going back.
@Phil: The VAR Guy has a few thoughts…
1. Desktops (PCs, notebooks): The VAR Guy suspects Linux’s market share is higher. Most people measure market share by examining “pre-load” sales. That’s the old Windows model. But we all know Linux winds up on a lot of systems through downloads, virtualization additions, etc. Under the new model, including downloads and virtualized systems running multiple OSes, perhaps Linux has 1.5% to 3% market share. The VAR Guy suspects Linux will have far higher market share (perhaps 5% to 20%) on NetBooks — the so-called sub-notebooks.
2. Mobile Internet Devices (MIDs): Coming soon from Intel OEMs. Linux will have double-digit market share.
3. Smart Phones: Linux has got to have double-digit market share here. Sure, iPhones and Windows Mobile sell well, but Linux is the quiet engine running in millions of smart phones.
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@Quazar: Google Linux would be an interesting play. But The VAR Guy hopes Google doesn’t try to re-invent the wheel. If Google acquired Canonical (Ubuntu) instead, that would be very, very, very interesting.
@VAR Guy: Linux is quietly running in millions of smart phones?? I recently got a smart phone and the thing I wanted most was for it to run Linux. I looked, looked, looked, and could not find anything. Sure, there’s the freerunner, but the software stack as well as the hardware at the moment is still really backward. And that was the only phone I found on the market. (And the Nokia 810, but that’s not a phone anyway)
Apart from that, it was either Symbian or Windows Mobile. I decided to go for the lesser evil.
BS low – ratinoilaty high! Really good answer!