Google's Chrome last month continued to creep up on a two-thirds supermajority of browser share, while Microsoft's once-dominant position deteriorated.
Again.According to analytics company Net Applications, Chrome's user share climbed half a percentage point in August, reaching 65.2%, an all-time high.
In the last 12 months, Chrome has gained 5.9 percentage points, the only browser of the top four - others include Apple's Safari, Microsoft's Edge and Internet Explorer (IE), and Mozilla's Firefox - to add to its total during that period.[ Related: Get serious about privacy with the Epic, Brave and Tor browsers ]Net Applications calculates user share by detecting the agent strings of the browsers people use to visit its clients' websites.
The firm then tallies the visitor sessions - which are effectively visits to the site, with multiple sessions possible daily - rather than count only users, as it once did.
Net Applications primarily measures activity, although it does so differently than rival sources, which total page views.