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<\/a><\/p>\nAkamai has\u00a0released its Q3 2016 State of the Internet report, which shows that Android browsers dominate mobile Internet requests globally.<\/p>\n
The Akamai report draws on data from Akamai IO, which collects information on browser usage across PC and mobile devices.<\/p>\n
In the third quarter of 2016, Chrome Mobile retained its position as the leading mobile browser –\u00a0widening its lead slightly.<\/p>\n
Mobile Safari requests comprised approximately 32% of requests over cellular connections at the beginning of the quarter, trailing Chrome Mobile by 12.5 percentage points.<\/p>\n
Chrome also held a 30-point lead over Android Webkit. Over the quarter, Safari gained one percentage point, while Chrome gained more than four and Webkit lost four.<\/p>\n
At the end of the quarter, Chrome was beating Safari by approximately 15.5 percentage points and besting Webkit by nearly 39 percentage points.<\/p>\n
In comparing iOS versus Android, Android started with a lead of nearly 27 points over iOS in the third quarter.<\/p>\n
That lead narrowed slightly, to under 26 points, by the end of the quarter.<\/p>\n
Overall, iOS comprised approximately 31% of requests in the third quarter, while Android was responsible for 59%.<\/p>\n
Akamai’s Q3 2016 State of the Internet report shows that Android browsers dominate mobile Internet requests globally.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":175701,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[3340,397,19438,605,37875,35,691,19440,3342],"class_list":["post-191788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","tag-akamai","tag-android","tag-android-webkit","tag-apple","tag-chrome-mobile","tag-headline","tag-ios","tag-mobile-safari","tag-state-of-the-internet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191788"}],"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=191788"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191788\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":192412,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191788\/revisions\/192412"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/175701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a><\/p>\nNow read:\u00a0Chrome 55 for Android rolling out<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"