{"id":28235,"date":"2022-04-06T20:30:38","date_gmt":"2022-04-06T20:30:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rbsitsoftwaresolution.com\/blog\/whats-the-most-popular-web-browser-in-2022.html"},"modified":"2022-04-06T20:30:38","modified_gmt":"2022-04-06T20:30:38","slug":"whats-the-most-popular-web-browser-in-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rbsitsoftwaresolution.in\/blog\/whats-the-most-popular-web-browser-in-2022.html","title":{"rendered":"What’s the most popular web browser in 2022?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I’ve been working on the internet since the early ’80s and its predecessors, such as ARPANET<\/a>, before that. So when the web, or WEB as we put it then<\/a>, came along, I started keeping a close eye on web browsers.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Web browsers are still the primary way we connect with the endless fields of data, stories, and video that make up the modern web. Today, Apple Safari<\/a> on smartphones — thanks to the iPhone — and Google Chrome on desktop are ways we work and play on the web.<\/p>\n

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Historically, it’s been challenging to get hard data on which browsers really were the most popular web browsers. True, many companies claimed to have good numbers, such as NetMarketShare<\/a> and StatCounter<\/a>, but their numbers are massaged<\/a>. The US federal government’s Digital Analytics Program (DAP)<\/a>, however, gives us a running count of the last 90 days of US government website visits<\/a>. That doesn’t tell us much about global web browser use, but it’s the best information we have about American web browser users today.<\/p>\n

And the top web browser is, according to the DAP’s 5.65-billion visits over the past 90 days (drumroll, please): Google Chrome<\/a> with 48%. That’s a smidgen down from last year when Chrome had 48.3%<\/a>. \u00a0<\/p>\n

This drop didn’t come from any sudden rise of Edge<\/a> or another alternative browser. Perish the thought. On the desktop, Chrome rules.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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But, in the last 12 months, we’ve seen an enormous rise of smartphones over PCs for web use. In 2022, 54% of the web browsing market belonged to smartphones over PCs. Back in 2019 and 2020, smartphones gained on desktops from 46.9% to 50%. Today, smartphones rule.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Pay attention website designers: if you’re not developing sites for smartphones, you’re making a major blunder. Tablets? The tablet market is down to a mere 1.8%.<\/p>\n

As for smartphones, Safari rules. Macs are a bit more popular, having moved up to 10.4% of the PC market from 2021. But with a 35% market share, iPhones dominate both the smartphone and smartphone browser markets. Indeed, the iPhone’s iOS is now the most popular end-user operating system of all.\u00a0<\/p>\n

All the varieties of Windows put together only comes to 31.1%.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Android? It has only a 20.7% share The only other browsers that matter on smartphones, besides Safari and Chrome, are Samsung’s built-in Samsung Internet with a tiny 1.1% share and the generic Android Webview.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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As for desktop web browsers, Chrome is even bigger than it looks at a glance. Its open-source foundation, Chromium, is also what Microsoft Edge<\/a> runs. Edge, with 6.7% of the user base, is now the third-place web browser. Except for Mozilla Firefox<\/a>, all the other web browsers that matter, such as Opera, Vivaldi, and Brave, run on top of Chromium<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Firefox is in fourth place and doing badly. In the last 12 months, Firefox dropped to 2.6% from last year’s 2.7%. In 2015, when I first started using DAP’s numbers, Firefox had an 11%<\/a> market share. By 2016, Firefox had declined to 8.2%<\/a>. It had\u00a0a slight bounce upward by 2018 to 9%<\/a>. Despite its ad deals with Google, Mozilla has been laying off more employees<\/a>. Firefox, frankly, is becoming irrelevant.<\/p>\n

Finally, at long, long last, the long dying Internet Explorer (IE) has finally dropped off the list entirely. It’s gone from 2.2% in 2021 to be in the also-run category with everyone else at 1.9%.<\/p>\n

In short, today’s internet belongs to Chrome on the desktop and Safari on smartphones. Nothing else really matters.<\/p>\n

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