{"id":92270,"date":"2013-11-24T14:03:26","date_gmt":"2013-11-24T12:03:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=92270"},"modified":"2013-11-24T14:04:52","modified_gmt":"2013-11-24T12:04:52","slug":"browser-wars-chrome-vs-firefox-vs-internet-explorer-in-sa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/92270-browser-wars-chrome-vs-firefox-vs-internet-explorer-in-sa.html","title":{"rendered":"Browser Wars: Chrome vs Firefox vs Internet Explorer in SA"},"content":{"rendered":"

Microsoft Internet Explorer is steadily losing ground in South Africa while Chrome looks poised to soon overtake it, according to statistics from StatCounter.<\/p>\n

According to StatCounter, Chrome overtook Internet Explorer globally in May 2012 and by the end of October 2013 had a significant lead on Microsoft\u2019s browser (40.44% Chrome, 28.96% IE).<\/p>\n

However, a different statistics provider, NetMarketshare, suggests that IE\u2019s market share is actually growing while Chrome\u2019s is declining.<\/p>\n

One reason for the discrepancy is the difference in the way to the two gather and process the statistics.<\/p>\n

In particular, StatCounter reports raw page views, while NetMarketshare looks at unique visitors and weights them according to a country\u2019s Internet traffic.<\/p>\n

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StatCounter monthly browser stats for South Africa for July 2008 – November 2011<\/p><\/div>\n

More Internet and software articles<\/h3>\n

This is what SA\u2019s Internet users look like<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Firefox 24 for PC and Android<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Browser wars: Chrome vs Firefox vs IE vs Safari<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

WinAmp shut down by AOL<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Chrome is closing in on Internet Explorer in South Africa<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":75675,"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":[605,1567,981,167,35,983,123,975,207,985],"class_list":["post-92270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","tag-apple","tag-chrome","tag-firefox","tag-google","tag-headline","tag-internet-explorer","tag-microsoft","tag-mozilla","tag-opera","tag-safari"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92270"}],"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=92270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92270\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}