{"id":181172,"date":"2016-10-16T13:00:58","date_gmt":"2016-10-16T11:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=181172"},"modified":"2016-10-17T15:31:09","modified_gmt":"2016-10-17T13:31:09","slug":"mobile-browser-war-apple-vs-android-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/181172-mobile-browser-war-apple-vs-android-2.html","title":{"rendered":"Mobile browser war: Apple vs Android"},"content":{"rendered":"

Akamai recently released its Q2 2016 State of the Internet report, which showed that Android browsers dominate mobile Internet requests globally.<\/p>\n

The Akamai report draws on data from Akamai IO, which collects information\u00a0on browser usage across PC and mobile devices connected via fixed and mobile networks.<\/p>\n

In the second quarter of 2016, Chrome Mobile retained its position as the leading browser – although it gained little ground.<\/p>\n

Mobile Safari requests comprised approximately 32% of requests over cellular at the beginning of the quarter, trailing Chrome Mobile by approximately 11 percentage points.<\/p>\n

Chrome also held a 26-point lead over Android Webkit. Over the quarter, Safari gained half a percentage point, Chrome gained one and a half, and Webkit lost three.<\/p>\n

Android Webkit and Chrome Mobile (the two primary Android browser bases) together accounted for approximately 59% of requests.<\/p>\n

\"cellular\"<\/a><\/p>\n

All Networks<\/h3>\n

Expanding to all networks (not just cellular), Mobile Safari commanded more share than Chrome – but its lead continued to narrow.<\/p>\n

At the start of the quarter, Mobile Safari usage was 5 percentage points higher than Chrome Mobile, but the gap narrowed to half of that by the end of the quarter.<\/p>\n

For traffic from mobile devices across all networks, Mobile Safari was responsible for about 39% of requests, while Android Webkit and Chrome Mobile made up nearly 52% of requests.<\/p>\n

\"all-networks\"<\/a><\/p>\n

More on mobile<\/h3>\n

Android 7.0 Nougat launched<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Android versus iOS in South Africa<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Chrome 52 for Android released<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Akamai\u2019s latest State of the Internet report shows which mobile browser is winning the usage war.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":176111,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[3340,397,605,1567,35,985,23412],"class_list":["post-181172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-internet","tag-akamai","tag-android","tag-apple","tag-chrome","tag-headline","tag-safari","tag-state-of-the-iiternet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181172"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181172"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181172\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":182264,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181172\/revisions\/182264"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/176111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}