Fifty-nine percent of visitors to government websites used a desktop, while 35.1 percent used a smartphone and 5.9 percent visited with a tablet.įirefox, once the solid No. Its high ranking is almost certainly because DAP's summary numbers don't distinguish between desktop and mobile-based browsers. How can Safari rate so highly? After all, on the desktop, macOS has only 9.2 percent of end-users. Apple Safari has second place, with 25.4 percent. IE lags far behind, with only 15.5 percent market share. While Chrome doesn't have the 90-plus percent market margins that IE once did with 44.5 percent, nothing else comes close. Today, according to the federal government's Digital Analytics Program (DAP), Chrome dominates US web browser use. Then came Google Chrome in 2008, and in short order, IE was in trouble.
Competitors, such as Mozilla Firefox, made runs at IE, but they barely dented IE's lead. When it comes to web browsers, Chrome is on top, Safari is second, and once-dominant IE is now far back in third.įor over a decade, Internet Explorer (IE), thanks to Microsoft's illegal crushing of Netscape, ruled the web browser field.
