Google Chrome browser has pulled ahead of Internet Explorer as the web browser with the most pageviews, according to Statcounter.
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Statcounter shows Chrome as the leader both globally and in New Zealand. Net Applications, which measures browser usage in a different way, shows IE as still more popular globally.
The reason for this is that Statcounter measures pageviews, while Net Applications have a more complicated way of measuring unique users.
From Jan Vermuelen - 'The disparity between the two analytics companies is attributed to the different way in which they rank browsers: StatCounter measures market share based on raw pageviews, whereas Net Applications uses unique visitors weighted by the number of Internet users in a country.'