Google Chrome One Month Later: Too Early To Judge

Exactly one month ago Google launched a browser of its own - Chrome. Blogosphere was abuzz for a couple of weeks and the interest still seems to be here to a certain extent (though much less than initially) so I wanted to share with you some results from the first month of operation of Google’s very own browser.

Given the entire buzz that surrounded Google’s browser launch, it is no wonder that everyone was immediately excited about the browser and its performance - especially since the speed we saw was definitely remarkable. Unfortunately, after the initial excitement subsided people started to notice various problems in the shiny and new Chrome - like repeated crashes of the browser for numerous reasons (take a look at the comments on this post and you will see that the reasons are really numerous).

But as soon as Chrome started to appear in Google Analytics as a browser used by visitors, we immediately started to share our amazing Chrome usage statistics. It was quite predictable that technology blogs that featured tons of content about Chrome (as everyone thought it was something of a duty to publish at least a couple of posts per day about various Chrome aspects - with some blogs reaching 10 Chrome-related posts on some days) received enormous search traffic of visitors on Chrome itself - those users that installed Chrome and wanted to know some additional details about this browser. At the time I also reported a record 18% of visitors on Chrome as I had a few posts about Chrome that received tons of visitors and comments as well. But quite understandably later on this share of Chrome-powered visitors in our audience diminished and the average September figure on Profy is 8% while the beginning of October shows about 5%. Yet this number still seems to be quite high for such a new browser, obviously.

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