As of October 2024, Google Chrome had the largest market share in the United States, with over 54 percent, followed by Apple's Safari, with 31 percent. Furthermore, Microsoft's Edge browser had a United States market share of 7 percent. The new Microsoft Edge was based on Chromium and was released in January 2020. Web browsers Web browsers serve as the application software through which users from across the globe access the contents of the World Wide Web. Browsers are available on a range of devices: desktop PCs, laptops, tablets, smartphones, and consoles. Given the popularity of smartphones, mobile devices have become the primary way to access the internet, overtaking PCs. Google Chrome has been the most popular web browser worldwide in the past decade, holding almost two-thirds of the market in 2023. Safari followed, occupying around 19 percent of the market. Safari turns 20 years old Safari is a web browser developed by Apple and first launched in January 2003. With regular updates, Safari is integrated into iOS, macOS, and iPadOS, the operating systems of iPhones, Macs, and iPads. Thanks to the popularity of Apple devices worldwide, Safari is used as a web browser at different rations in the United States and in many European countries. For instance, Safari held over 29 percent of the UK internet browser market in August 2022 but only 11 percent of the German web browser market in November 2022.

As of 2023 in France, the web browser Chrome had a market share of ***** percent, while Firefox occupied around eight percent of the web browser market in the European country. Safari held a strong place with ***** percent, which is an increase of about two percent since 2020.

  Web browser use by device

Since 2012, the web browser Chrome increased its market share steadily, up to around ** percent in March 2024 on desktop computers, and over ** percent on mobile phones that same month. Looking at the market share of the main Internet browsers optimized for tablets, the Safari navigator lost about ** points in market share between June 2018 and May 2021, reaching almost ** percent in 2021. Chrome kept gaining points, reaching almost ** percent in May 2021.

  Search engines usage

According to Statista's Global Consumer Survey from November 2020, ** percent of respondents declared having used Google in the past four weeks, and seven percent stated having used the search engine Ecosia. Although the main players on the browser and search engine markets seem to be used by a majority of users, French people also mentioned wishing using alternative web browsers or search engines: in fact, ** percent of respondents stated already using an alternative Internet browser to Internet Explorer or Chrome, in a survey from May 2018.

Introduction

Google Chrome Statistics: Google Chrome has established itself as the leading web browser globally, reflecting its widespread adoption across various platforms. As of February 2025, Chrome holds approximately 66% of the global market share across all devices, surpassing competitors such as Safari, Edge, and Firefox. This dominance translates to an estimated 3.45 billion internet users utilizing Chrome as their primary web browser in 2025, marking an increase from 3.06 billion users in 2020.

The browser's popularity is further highlighted by its extensive library of extensions, with nearly 137,345 available in the Chrome Web Store, enhancing user experience through additional functionalities. Chrome's integration with Google's suite of services and its cross-platform compatibility have contributed significantly to its widespread adoption. However, this dominance has attracted regulatory scrutiny; in November 2024, the U.S. Department of Justice proposed that Google divest its Chrome browser to address concerns over its search monopoly, estimating Chrome's valuation at approximately USD 20 billion.

These developments underscore Chrome's influential position in the web browser market and its impact on global internet usage patterns.

As of August 2024, the Google Chrome browser accounted for over ** percent of the global market for internet browsers. Apple’s Safari browser was the second most popular internet browser around the world, accounting for about **** percent of market share. Apart from these two, no other browser controlled more than **** percent of the overall market share. Internet use With billions of people around the world having some form of access to the technology, around half of the world’s population can be classified as internet users. In countries like Japan, the United Kingdom, and Germany, a big majority of citizens access the internet on a daily basis, whether it be for work or personal entertainment. In the United States, the average adult spends hours per day online, once again showing the large importance of internet in peoples’ daily lives. Web browsers Web browsers serve as the platform through which users from across the globe access the contents of the internet. With the help of a web browser, users can access a huge variety of content including entertainment sites, social media, and online shopping retailers. In recent years, social media sites such as Facebook have become some of the most popular sites, with users determined to keep up-to-date with the digital presence of their friends, families, and favorite celebrities.

What is the browser usage like in Belgium? Google Chrome was the most used internet browser in Belgium in December 2024 with a market share of over ** percent. This ranking consists of mobile, desktop, tablet as well as console browsers. This might explain the entries for some specific browsers, like Apple’s Safari (which is a desktop browser but comes pre-installed on iPhones) or Samsung Internet. The smartphone penetration in Flanders (the Dutch-speaking region of Belgium) was at ** percent in 2020. Internet access in Belgium is on the up… In 2020, roughly ** percent of Belgian households had access to the Internet. This was the exact same as the European average of ** percent. Compared to other European countries, Belgium used to be considered below average when it comes to Internet access at home. This value increased in 2018, however, and has been increasing steadily in recent years. … as well as mobile Internet use. Communication and entertainment are popular ways for Belgians to spend time on the Internet. Facebook and Facebook Messenger ranked among the most cited apps that were used every day in Belgium in 2017. This is much the same for teenagers from Flanders, although they also mention Instagram, Snapchat and YouTube as their preferred smartphone apps.

In December 2024, Microsoft's Edge browser had a market share of ***** percent in the United States. Edge was first publicly released in July 2015, with the consumer release of Windows 10. However, Chrome held a majority of the market share, with almost ** percent in the same month. What are web browsers? A web browser is a software application for visualizing websites, documents and data. The most popular current browsers are Google Chrome, Apple’s Safari, Microsoft Edge, and Firefox. Historically one of the large players in the segment, Internet Explorer has unfortunately lost its tight grip on the web browser market.As shown by the graph at hand, Google Chrome has been the most popular browser in the United States since December 2013. In other countries, Google Chrome has also taken up a dominating role. In the European browser market, Chrome and Safari have established strong market positions with ** and **** percent, respectively. On a worldwide scale, Chrome provided a share of around ** percent in the global web browser market as of December 2021.

Microsoft Edge may not have the highest market share when it comes to web browsers. However, it has been growing steadily since Microsoft introduced it in 2020. This Chromium-based web browser is now being shipped with Microsoft Windows 11 and offers many (often too many) features. Here are some Microsoft...

The global number of smartphone users in was forecast to continuously increase between 2024 and 2029 by in total 1.8 billion users (+42.62 percent). After the ninth consecutive increasing year, the smartphone user base is estimated to reach 6.1 billion users and therefore a new peak in 2029. Notably, the number of smartphone users of was continuously increasing over the past years.Smartphone users here are limited to internet users of any age using a smartphone. The shown figures have been derived from survey data that has been processed to estimate missing demographics.The shown data are an excerpt of Statista's Key Market Indicators (KMI). The KMI are a collection of primary and secondary indicators on the macro-economic, demographic and technological environment in up to 150 countries and regions worldwide. All indicators are sourced from international and national statistical offices, trade associations and the trade press and they are processed to generate comparable data sets (see supplementary notes under details for more information).Find more key insights for the number of smartphone users in countries like Australia & Oceania and Asia.

This statistic shows the usage share of the five leading tablet and mobile browsers in France from ************** to **********. It reveals that Safari lost its usage share while Chrome gained during the same period of time.

This guide was originally created by the Alberta Office of Statistics and Information (OSI), and later updated by the Alberta Open Government Program. The guide is intended to provide basic procedural information about viewing and using Ivation tables (IVTs), which is a proprietary data file format from the company Beyond 20/20.

As of December 2024, Google Chrome accounted for around ** percent of the global desktop internet browser market share. Around half of the world’s population uses the internet on a regular basis, and web browsers serve as the channel through which users from across the globe access the internet each day.  What are people using their web browsers for?   With the help of a web browser, users can access a huge variety of content including entertainment sites, social media, and online shopping retailers. In recent years, social media sites such as Facebook have become some of the most frequently visited sites in the world, with users determined to keep up to date with the digital presence of their friends, families, and favorite celebrities. Privacy concerns   Web browsers provide users with an integral digital service, but recent data leaks have alerted users to the pitfalls of putting too much personal data online. A great number of people are becoming aware of and concerned about their online privacy, meaning that web browser developers must prove themselves capable of protecting information if they hope to receive the continued loyalty of their users.

The population share with mobile internet access in North America was forecast to increase between 2024 and 2029 by in total 2.9 percentage points. This overall increase does not happen continuously, notably not in 2028 and 2029. The mobile internet penetration is estimated to amount to 84.21 percent in 2029. Notably, the population share with mobile internet access of was continuously increasing over the past years.The penetration rate refers to the share of the total population having access to the internet via a mobile broadband connection.The shown data are an excerpt of Statista's Key Market Indicators (KMI). The KMI are a collection of primary and secondary indicators on the macro-economic, demographic and technological environment in up to 150 countries and regions worldwide. All indicators are sourced from international and national statistical offices, trade associations and the trade press and they are processed to generate comparable data sets (see supplementary notes under details for more information).Find more key insights for the population share with mobile internet access in countries like Caribbean and Europe.

Data Encryption Market Overview The global data encryption market is projected to register significant growth, with a market size of USD 14.5 billion in 2025 and a CAGR of 16% over the forecast period of 2025-2033. The increasing adoption of cloud computing and digital transformation initiatives are driving the demand for data encryption solutions to protect sensitive data from cyber threats. Additionally, industry regulations, such as GDPR and CCPA, are mandating organizations to implement data encryption measures, further fueling market growth. Market Drivers, Restraints, and Trends Key market drivers include rising cybersecurity threats, increasing data breaches, and the growing need for data privacy. The increasing adoption of IoT and mobile computing is also contributing to the need for data encryption. However, the high cost of implementation and the lack of skilled professionals can pose challenges to market growth. Notable market trends include the emergence of advanced encryption algorithms, such as quantum-safe cryptography, and the integration of encryption with AI and machine learning technologies. Regional factors, such as government regulations and technology adoption rates, also influence the market's growth trajectory. Recent developments include: On Apr. 11, 2023, Menlo Security, a leading provider of browser security solutions, published the results of the 10th Annual Cyberthreat Defense Report (CDR) by the CyberEdge Group. The report, partially sponsored by Menlo Security, highlights the augmenting importance of browser isolation technologies to combat ransomware and other malicious threats., The research revealed that most ransomware attacks include threats beyond data encryption. According to the report, around 51% of respondents confirmed that they have been using at least one type of browser or Internet isolation to protect their organizational data, while another 40% are about to deploy data encryption technology. Furthermore, around 33% of respondents noted that browser isolation is a key cybersecurity strategy to protect against sophisticated attacks, including ransomware, phishing, and zero-day attacks., On Feb.14, 2023, EnterpriseDB, a relational database provider, announced the addition of Transparent Data Encryption (TDE) based on open-source PostgreSQL to its databases. The new TDE feature will be shipped along with the firm's enterprise version of its database. TDE is a method of encrypting database files to ensure data security while at rest and in motion., Adding that most enterprises use TDE for compliance issues helps ensure data encryption on the hard drive and files on a backup. Before the development of built-in TDE, enterprises relied on either full-disk encryption or stackable cryptographic file system encryption., On Jan.25, 2023, Researchers from the Tokyo University of Science, Japan, announced the development of a faster and cheaper method for handling encrypted data while improving security. The new data encryption method developed by Japanese researchers combines the best of homomorphic encryption and secret sharing to handle encrypted data., Homomorphic encryption and secret sharing are key methods to compute sensitive data while preserving privacy. Homomorphic encryption is computationally intensive and involves performing computational data encryption on a single server, while secret sharing is fast and computationally efficient., In this method, the encrypted data/secret input is divided and distributed across multiple servers, each performing a computation, such as multiplication, on its data. The results of the computations are then used to reconstruct the original data., September 2022: Convergence Technology Solutions Corp., a supplier of software-enabled IT and cloud solutions, declared that it has obtained certification in Canada to sell and deploy IBM zsystems and LinuxONE., November 2019: Penta Security Systems announced that it has been selected as a finalist for the 2020 SC Magazine Awards, which are given by SC Media and celebrated in the United States. As a result, MyDiamo from Penta Security has been named the Best Database Security Solution of 2020. Additionally, this will result in the expansion of common-level encryption and improve the open-source DBMS installation procedure.. Potential restraints include: ISSUE REGARDING SECURITY AND DATA BREACH 44, HIGH IMPLEMENTATION COSTS AND COMPLEXITY 45; ISSUE WITH RESPECT TO DATA CONSISTENCY AND INTEROPERABILITY ACROSS DIFFERENT EDGE PLATFORMS 45.

This dataset contains user behavior traffic in Tor, I2P, ZeroNet and Freenet.

We divide darknet user behaviors in 8 categories: Browsing, Chat, E-mail, Audio-streaming, Video-streaming, File Transfer, P2P and VoIP. We investigated the commonly used applications in Tor, I2P, ZeroNet, Freenet to simulate various user behaviors.

After capturing pcap, we use CICFlowMeter for feature extraction. Since our user behavior hierarchical classifier consists of 6 local classifiers, we divide the dataset into 6 csv files. The statistics of traffic data are shown in the following table.

Dataset

Original Pcap Datasets: Google drive - download

Citation

@INPROCEEDINGS{9343185,
 author={Hu, Yuzong and Zou, Futai and Li, Linsen and Yi, Ping},
 booktitle={2020 IEEE 19th International Conference on Trust, Security and Privacy in Computing and Communications (TrustCom)}, 
 title={Traffic Classification of User Behaviors in Tor, I2P, ZeroNet, Freenet}, 
 year={2020},
 volume={},
 number={},
 pages={418-424},
 doi={10.1109/TrustCom50675.2020.00064}}

Acknowlegement

Foto von Leon Seibert auf Unsplash

As of March 2025, Google represented 79.1 percent of the global online search engine market on desktop devices. Despite being much ahead of its competitors, this represents the lowest share ever recorded by the search engine in these devices for over two decades. Meanwhile, its long-time competitor Bing accounted for 12.21 percent, as tools like Yahoo and Yandex held shares of over 2.9 percent each. Google and the global search market Ever since the introduction of Google Search in 1997, the company has dominated the search engine market, while the shares of all other tools has been rather lopsided. The majority of Google revenues are generated through advertising. Its parent corporation, Alphabet, was one of the biggest internet companies worldwide as of 2024, with a market capitalization of 2.02 trillion U.S. dollars. The company has also expanded its services to mail, productivity tools, enterprise products, mobile devices, and other ventures. As a result, Google earned one of the highest tech company revenues in 2024 with roughly 348.16 billion U.S. dollars. Search engine usage in different countries Google is the most frequently used search engine worldwide. But in some countries, its alternatives are leading or competing with it to some extent. As of the last quarter of 2023, more than 63 percent of internet users in Russia used Yandex, whereas Google users represented little over 33 percent. Meanwhile, Baidu was the most used search engine in China, despite a strong decrease in the percentage of internet users in the country accessing it. In other countries, like Japan and Mexico, people tend to use Yahoo along with Google. By the end of 2024, nearly half of the respondents in Japan said that they had used Yahoo in the past four weeks. In the same year, over 21 percent of users in Mexico said they used Yahoo.

The dataset consists of three different data sources:

1. DoH enabled Firefox
2. DoH enabled Google Chrome
3. Cloudflared DoH proxy

The capture of web browser data was made using the Selenium framework, which simulated classical user browsing. The browsers received command for visiting domains taken from Alexa's top 10K most visited websites. The capturing was performed on the host by listening to the network interface of the virtual machine. Overall the dataset contains almost 5,000 web-page visits by Mozilla and 1,000 pages visited by Chrome.

The Cloudflared DoH proxy was installed in Raspberry PI, and the IP address of the Raspberry was set as the default DNS resolver in two separate offices in our university. It was continuously capturing the DNS/DoH traffic created up to 20 devices for around three months.

The dataset contains 1,128,904 flows from which is around 33,000 labeled as DoH. We provide raw pcap data, CSV with flow data, and CSV file with extracted features.

The CSV with extracted features has the following data fields:

- Label (1 - Doh, 0 - regular HTTPS)
- Data source
- Duration
- Minimal Inter-Packet Delay
- Maximal Inter-Packet Delay
- Average Inter-Packet Delay
- A variance of Incoming Packet Sizes
- A variance of Outgoing Packet Sizes
- A ratio of the number of Incoming and outgoing bytes
- A ration of the number of Incoming and outgoing packets
- Average of Incoming Packet sizes
- Average of Outgoing Packet sizes
- The median value of Incoming Packet sizes
- The median value of outgoing Packet sizes
- The ratio of bursts and pauses
- Number of bursts
- Number of pauses
- Autocorrelation
- Transmission symmetry in the 1st third of connection
- Transmission symmetry in the 2nd third of connection
- Transmission symmetry in the last third of connection

The observed network traffic does not contain privacy-sensitive information.

The zip file structure is:

|-- data
|  |-- extracted-features...extracted features used in ML for DoH recognition
|  |  |-- chrome
|  |  |-- cloudflared
|  |  `-- firefox
|  |-- flows...............................................exported flow data
|  |  |-- chrome
|  |  |-- cloudflared
|  |  `-- firefox
|  `-- pcaps....................................................raw PCAP data
|    |-- chrome
|    |-- cloudflared
|    `-- firefox
|-- LICENSE
`-- README.md

When using this dataset, please cite the original work as follows:

@inproceedings{vekshin2020,
author = {Vekshin, Dmitrii and Hynek, Karel and Cejka, Tomas},
title = {DoH Insight: Detecting DNS over HTTPS by Machine Learning},
year = {2020},
isbn = {9781450388337},
publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
address = {New York, NY, USA},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3407023.3409192},
doi = {10.1145/3407023.3409192},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security},
articleno = {87},
numpages = {8},
keywords = {classification, DoH, DNS over HTTPS, machine learning, detection, datasets},
location = {Virtual Event, Ireland},
series = {ARES '20}
}

Mobile accounts for approximately half of web traffic worldwide. In the last quarter of 2024, mobile devices (excluding tablets) generated 62.54 percent of global website traffic. Mobiles and smartphones consistently hoovered around the 50 percent mark since the beginning of 2017, before surpassing it in 2020. Mobile traffic Due to low infrastructure and financial restraints, many emerging digital markets skipped the desktop internet phase entirely and moved straight onto mobile internet via smartphone and tablet devices. India is a prime example of a market with a significant mobile-first online population. Other countries with a significant share of mobile internet traffic include Nigeria, Ghana and Kenya. In most African markets, mobile accounts for more than half of the web traffic. By contrast, mobile only makes up around 45.49 percent of online traffic in the United States. Mobile usage The most popular mobile internet activities worldwide include watching movies or videos online, e-mail usage and accessing social media. Apps are a very popular way to watch video on the go and the most-downloaded entertainment apps in the Apple App Store are Netflix, Tencent Video and Amazon Prime Video.

In 2021, there were an estimated *** billion internet users worldwide using Chrome as their main browser. Whereas, the second most popular internet browser worldwide was Safari with a little over *** million users, highlighting the drastic difference between the number of internet users for Chrome and Safari.

Mobile search has come a long way, being offered in the form of search apps (Google, Yahoo! Search and Bing) and internet browsers such as Google Chrome and Safari. According to a September 2020 survey, the vast majority (** percent) of European mobile internet users reported being satisfied to very satisfied with the choice of search engines available on the internet.

The share of Internet Explorer in browser market across India was about **** percent in the month of July 2020. A decline in the market share was seen from July of 2019 across the country. Chrome was the leader of the browser market in the country.