Statcounter’s newest report for November 2024 is now obtainable. Along with contemporary particulars concerning the Home windows market, it exhibits how the browser market is doing lately. Once more, spoiler alert: difficult Chrome’s reign is an immensely laborious activity.

Statcounter claims that in November 2024, Google Chrome elevated its market share by 1.09 factors and reached 66.31%, which is a brand new record-high quantity for Chrome in 2024. 12 months-over-year development is a 4.25 factors enhance.

Microsoft Edge is the closest browser to Google Chrome. Nevertheless, calling it “the closest” is a little bit of a stretch, contemplating how huge the hole between the 2 browsers is. Furthermore, final month, Microsoft Edge went down from 13.56% to 12.87% (-0.69 factors). One 12 months in the past, in November 2023, Edge was at 11.23%, and it exhibits how laborious it’s to get customers to modify from Chrome and different browsers (particularly by making an attempt to steal their knowledge and impose Edge by drive).

Safari continues holding its regular third place with a market share floating across the 9% mark. In November 2024, Apple’s Safari browser went up by 0.07 factors and reached 9.13%.

1. Google Chrome – 66.31% (+1.09 factors)
2. Microsoft Edge – 12.87% (-0.69 factors)
3. Apple Safari – 9.13% (+0.07 factors)
4. Mozilla Firefox – 6.45% (+0.06 factors)
5. Opera – 2.81% (-0.39 factors)

Statcounter’s newest knowledge got here at an fascinating time. Google is at the moment in a conflict with the US Division of Justice, which claims Google ought to promote Chrome. In response, Google said that promoting its browser would hurt America’s expertise management and customers who won’t belief the brand new proprietor. Will probably be fascinating to see if the event will have an effect on Google’s place within the browser market.

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