The answer is, surprisingly better than Safari and Opera. Yup, right at its launch, Chrome gained a stronger usage rate than Safari or Opera.
However, Chrome’s usage rate has largely remained stagnant betwen September and now. What’s interesting is how the statistics translate.
Firefox rates go up 2% and Safari, IE7 and Opera didn’t bulge (minor 0.X% changes). The only major browser to have lost something is IE6, where as its usage came down 2%. What tells us that 2% of IE6 users got Google Chrome is that Firefox lost roughly 2% of its users as Chrome launched, so we can guess some 2% of Firefox users switched to Chrome for a month or so and then came back.
It makes a lot of sense this way, Chrome is zippy and really fast and the Firefox alternative may have been just a bit too big for those aging computers still equipped with IE6. Chrome, however, made the deal.
What do you think about these statistics.
Will Chrome ever escalate from a niche product to the people’s favorite?
