In December 2024, Microsoft's Edge browser had a market share of 13.34 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 66 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 61 and 11.4 percent, respectively. On a worldwide scale, Chrome provided a share of around 64 percent in the global web browser market as of December 2021.

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.

Chrome had the largest share in the web browser market in Poland in 2023. Opera recorded over ** percent market share, and Safari reached over ** percent of the web browser market. The web browser market in Poland The number of people using the Internet in Poland is steadily growing. In 2023, Poland recorded ** million internet users. Almost ** percent of them used the internet through smartphones, and nearly every second Pole used desktop computers for this purpose. Google Chrome browsers are the most popular among Polish internet users. In 2023, nearly ** percent of Poles used Chrome browser on desktop devices, and almost ** percent used it on mobile devices. Operating systems and applications for mobile devices in Poland The most popular operating system on mobile devices in Poland in 2022 was *******. Phones with Android operating system have been the most common choice of phone users for several years. This system, supported by Google, allows access to commonly used services such as Gmail, Google Drive, Google Maps, or YouTube. In 2023, as many as * applications in the top ten most popular mobile apps were owned by Google. In addition to Google applications, YouTube, Facebook, Messenger, and WhatsApp were also very popular.

In December 2024, Google Chrome was the most popular mobile internet browser in the United States, with a market share of over ** percent. Apple’s Safari came as a close second, with around ***** percent of market share. U.S. browser market Considering Apple iPhone’s high user rate in the United States, it is no wonder that Safari, the browser pre-installed on every iPhone, is also widely used. When it comes to the overall browser market, however, Safari’s leading status gets lost: Chrome is the number one internet browser in the United States with a market share of about ** percent, while Safari trails as a second with around ** percent share. Safari lags even further behind in the desktop browser market, with only around ** percent share. This correlates to Apple’s standing in the PC market: ranked as number four in the market as of the third quarter of 2021, Apple’s Mac computers enjoy a relatively niche yet loyal user group. With a nearly ** percent share, Chrome is the dominating figure in the U.S. desktop browser market.

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.

Chrome was the most used tablet browser in Turkey, having a 76 percent market share as of August 2024. Safari ranked second, reaching a 16.3 percent market share. Furthermore, Android's market share accounted for 4.7 percent in the same month.

Chrome was the browser with the largest market share in Denmark, as of August 2024. Its market share was roughly ** percent that month and was followed by Safari with around ** percent of the market share. Microsoft Edge, Firefox, and Samsung Internet were other leading web browsers in Denmark for the evaluated period.  Mobile browsers in Denmark When it comes to mobile web browsers, the one with the biggest market share was Apple's Safari with nearly ** percent of the total market as of April 2021. Chrome ranked second with roughly ** percent of the market share. As of desktop web browsers, the positions were reversed: Chrome ranked first with roughly ** percent of the market share and Safari came second with around ** percent in April 2021.  Worldwide browser marketChrome has been the worldwide leader among mobile internet browsers since August 2014. As of July 2021, Chrome had a market share of roughly ** percent, while Safari followed with approximately ** percent. Samsung Internet and UC Browser had roughly *** and and *** percent of the market respectively.

As of 2024, Safari accounted for a share of **** percent in the mobile browser market in Indonesia. In 2021, Apple iOS ranked second among the most common platforms that generated mobile web traffic in Indonesia.

As of December 2021, internet browsers were the apps frequently visited by most people in Czechia. Eighty-six percent used them daily. The category used by most people weekly (or multiple times a week) was internet banking, with ** percent of Czechia using online banking this frequently. Map apps were the ones used monthly by most people, with ** percent utilizing them this often.

This statistic presents the most used communication and messaging apps in the Google Play Store in Spain in June 2021, ranked by daily active users (DAU). The number one app by DAU was WhatsApp Messenger with approximately ************ android devices using the service daily.

By 2021, most adults in Czechia have already come across the term internet cookies at least once in their lifetime. This share decreased with greater age, just a internet penetration does. Most age groups also knew the purpose of these could be targeted online advertising. However, the share of those who changed or adjusted the cookies settings on their devices was much lower. While **** percent of individuals in Czechia aged 16 to 24 knew the purpose of cookies, only **** percent ever changed their settings. This figure peaked in the following age groups of ** to 34-year-olds and then began to decrease.

What are internet cookies?

Internet cookies are data saved on a user’s end device (usually a browser) when visiting a website. They react whenever the user revisits this webpage, sending information back to the source. This can be used for remembering passwords on a website. Aside from a technical function, they can also be used as a tracker for profiling and advertising purposes. This leaves many people worried about their private information. For example, most of Czechia’s internet users were concerned about their online privacy to a certain degree in 2021.

How is the awareness elsewhere?

Adjusting cookies is one of the instruments for personal information protection in the online world. Therefore, it is used by individuals around the globe. Over a fourth of respondents from major countries, including the USA, the UK, and Germany, stated they disabled third-party cookies in their browsers in 2021. That same year in another of Czechia‘s neighboring countries, Poland, almost a third of the respondents said they sometimes decline cookies on a website.

Between November 2021 and October 2023, the vast majority of cyberattacks worldwide, over 70 percent, used Microsoft Office Suite. Exploits for browsers ranked second, with almost 12 percent of cyberattacks deploying them. Google's Android followed, exploited in approximately six percent of attacks detected in the examined period.

En marzo de 2024, el navegador Google Chrome representaba alrededor del 65% de la cuota de mercado mundial de los navegadores de Internet. El browser Safari, perteneciente a Apple, era el segundo más popular en todo el mundo, con más del 18% de la cuota de mercado. Aparte de estos dos, ningún otro navegador acaparaba más del 5% de la cuota de mercado global.

In the most recently reported fiscal year, Google's revenue amounted to 348.16 billion U.S. dollars. Google's revenue is largely made up by advertising revenue, which amounted to 264.59 billion U.S. dollars in 2024. As of October 2024, parent company Alphabet ranked first among worldwide internet companies, with a market capitalization of 2,02 billion U.S. dollars. Google’s revenue Founded in 1998, Google is a multinational internet service corporation headquartered in California, United States. Initially conceptualized as a web search engine based on a PageRank algorithm, Google now offers a multitude of desktop, mobile and online products. Google Search remains the company’s core web-based product along with advertising services, communication and publishing tools, development and statistical tools as well as map-related products. Google is also the producer of the mobile operating system Android, Chrome OS, Google TV as well as desktop and mobile applications such as the internet browser Google Chrome or mobile web applications based on pre-existing Google products. Recently, Google has also been developing selected pieces of hardware which ranges from the Nexus series of mobile devices to smart home devices and driverless cars. Due to its immense scale, Google also offers a crisis response service covering disasters, turmoil and emergencies, as well as an open source missing person finder in times of disaster. Despite the vast scope of Google products, the company still collects the majority of its revenue through online advertising on Google Site and Google network websites. Other revenues are generated via product licensing and most recently, digital content and mobile apps via the Google Play Store, a distribution platform for digital content. As of September 2020, some of the highest-grossing Android apps worldwide included mobile games such as Candy Crush Saga, Pokemon Go, and Coin Master.