{"id":186144,"date":"2016-11-07T11:57:10","date_gmt":"2016-11-07T09:57:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=186144"},"modified":"2016-11-07T11:58:20","modified_gmt":"2016-11-07T09:58:20","slug":"google-chrome-dominates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/186144-google-chrome-dominates.html","title":{"rendered":"Google Chrome dominates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google Chrome is the most popular browser among desktop PC and mobile device users across the world, according to October 2016 data from <a href=\"https:\/\/netmarketshare.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Net Market Share<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>On desktop PCs, Chrome has 54.99% of the international market share &#8211; up from just over 35% at the start of the year.<\/p>\n<p>In second place was Internet Explorer with 23.13%. It was followed by Firefox and Microsoft Edge on 11.14% and 5.26% respectively.<\/p>\n<p>Safari came last, with 3.69%.<\/p>\n<p>On mobile devices, Chrome took first spot with 54.19%, followed by Safari on 26.63%, and Android Browser on 9.08%.<\/p>\n<p>The desktop and mobile browser trends from December 2015 to today are displayed in the graphs below.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Desktop share<\/h3>\n<p>Click to enlarge.<\/p>\n<p><a  data-lightbox=\"post-image\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Desktop-share.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-186148 size-new-size\" src=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Desktop-share-640x141.jpg\" alt=\"desktop-share\" width=\"640\" height=\"141\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Desktop-share-640x141.jpg 640w, https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Desktop-share-768x170.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Desktop-share.jpg 1558w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Mobile share<\/h3>\n<p>Click to enlarge.<\/p>\n<p><a  data-lightbox=\"post-image\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Mobile-and-tablet-share.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-186150 size-new-size\" src=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Mobile-and-tablet-share-640x141.jpg\" alt=\"mobile-and-tablet-share\" width=\"640\" height=\"141\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Mobile-and-tablet-share-640x141.jpg 640w, https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Mobile-and-tablet-share-768x169.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Mobile-and-tablet-share.jpg 1565w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/185560-google-chrome-now-faster-on-windows-pcs.html\">Google Chrome now faster on Windows PCs<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google Chrome is the browser of choice for desktop and mobile users around the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":148427,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[36,1137],"class_list":["post-186144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-internet","tag-active","tag-google-chrome"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186144"}],"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=186144"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":186146,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186144\/revisions\/186146"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/148427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}