Google Chrome’s market shares grow in Azerbaijan

By Azernews

By Naila Huseynli

Global Stats statistics center reported the Internet browser Google Chrome’s market share in Azerbaijani increased by 7.8 percent in the first half of 2018.

Google Chrome is the most popular browser in Azerbaijan, which owns 65.8 percent of the market as of July 1, which exceeds the figure for the same date last year by almost 10.5 percent.

A decrease of 10.4 percent in the share of the Opera browser was recorded at the end of January-June 2018, which amounted to 10.1 percent on July 1, 2018. This is 12.1 percent less than in early July 2017.

The center noted that the number of users of the Samsung Internet browser increased by 8.6 percent at the end of the first six months of 2018. The share of the Samsung Internet browser in Azerbaijani market was 6.82 percent as of the end of June 2018, which is 7.2 percent more than the last year’s indicator.

The rest of the market is distributed among Safari (6.46 percent), Android (4.91 percent), Yandex (1.46 percent), Mozilla Firefox (1.46 percent), UC Browser (0.74 percent), Internet Explorer (0.65 percent), and others.

Currently, Chrome is the undisputed winner in the browser war. As of 2018, the statistics of the global market shows that Chrome had a global market share of 58.15 percent, up from 54.2 percent in May 2017.