Google’s Chrome has over 20% of the worldwide web browser market during the month of June for the first time, according to StatCounter. The firm’s research arm StatCounter Global Stats reports that Chrome took 20.7% of the global market, up from 2.8% in June 2009. In the same period Microsoft’s Internet Explorer has fallen from 59% to 44% globally and Firefox dropped slightly from 30% to 28%.
“It is a superb achievement by Google to go from under 3% two years ago to over 20% today,” says Aodhan Cullen, CEO, StatCounter. “While Google has been highly effective in getting Chrome downloaded the real test is actual browser usage which our stats measure.”
Chrome has performed particularly well in Ireland where it overtook Firefox in May to become the number two browser. In June it reached 27%, ahead of Firefox’s 24% and behind IE at 41%.
In the US Chrome has risen to 16% behind market leader IE on 46.5% and Firefox on 24.7%. In the UK Chrome at 21.1% is now neck and neck with Firefox on 21.7%. IE leads the UK market on 46.4%. (For other individual country or regional analysis see StatCounter Global Stats).
StatCounter Global Stats are based on aggregate data collected on a sample exceeding 15 billion page views per month (4 billion from the US) from the StatCounter network of more than three million websites.

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