50+ Unbelievable Browser Statistics You Should Know in 2025

Web browsers are our gateway to the Internet, shaping our interactions with websites, applications, and online services.

Google has always been the only answer for many people when it comes to internet surfing, but in reality, Google is not the only browser available on the market.

Multiple browsers are available for us, each offering unique functionalities, security measures, and performance levels.

Browsers are such an important aspect of our everyday lives that we have developed a statistics-based blog on browser statistics. This blog will provide you with valuable insights into market trends and technological shifts.

Key Browser Statistics

• Currently, Google Chrome is the most used browser, with a market share of 64.26%, followed by Safari (19.69%), Microsoft Edge (4.89%), Mozilla Firefox (2.99%), Opera Mini (2.64%), and Samsung Internet (2.6%).
• Google Chrome is the most used web browser on tablet devices.
• Chrome Android version is the most used mobile browser.
• Back in 2022, Google Chrome was the most vulnerable web browser.

Web Browser Market Share

Web browser competition has been evolving since the very first proof of usage. Users will always camp on browsers that provide the utmost user experience and 24/7 support. 

So this section discusses those types of browsers that are possessing the highest market share versus the lowest in 2023: 

• As of Q1 2023, Microsoft Edge possesses 4.96% of the market. 
• Microsoft Edge, a contemporary of the obsolescent and regrettably conquered Internet Explorer, had 4.12% of the market in 2022, which then was lifted to 4.96% in the first quarter of this year, an increase of one-fourth of a percent in the next from the last. That is a significant share since its predecessor had less than 1% to show at this time last year. 
• As of May 2023, it increased to 5.31%, an increase of another 0.35%. Microsoft Edge was the backbone of its browser until Google Chrome dethroned it. 

• After Google Chrome gained popularity in 2008, it gradually and steadily became unpopular. Based on a competitor’s code, it saw steady but gradual improvement over the years.
• According to the browser statistics of Q1 of 2023, Chrome is in number English with the highest value of above 63.51% share.
• With more statistics to prove it, Google is a dominant force in the web and mobile browser spaces. Its market share fell 2.36%, from 65.87% last year to 63.51% in Q1 2023.
• Incremental change in how the stats go is likely the difference between other competitors. 
• The latest on Chrome grew by 0.66% from 63.51% in Q1 2023 to 62.85% as of May 2023.
• Apple and Microsoft Edge had a tremendous first quarter, seeing more or fewer increments in their respective market shares.
• Chrome is still the number one browser, offering a wide selection of speedy, easy-to-use browser add-ons.
• Safari’s market share was 20.43% in Q1 of 2023. 
• Statistics of Browsers for 2023 reveal that Safari’s share mounted from 18.84% in 2022 to 20.43% in Q1 2023, with a positive change of 1.59 compared to the previous year. 
• There was an increase of 0.29 from 20.43% in Q1-2023 to 20.72% in May 2023. This is a good sign, showing the probability of more significant increments in the forthcoming quarters of 2023. Firefox’s market share in 2023 is 2.77% in Q1. 
• The past year has seen Firefox competing directly against Internet Explorer and, more recently, Edge. 
• Recent statistics indicate that Mozilla steadily continued to grow its share despite its drop in market share of 3.26% in 2022 to 2.77% in Q1 2023, a change of -0.49%. 
• Mozilla established its market share in May 2023 at 2.77%, just like in Q1 2023. 
• As of April 2023, there were more than 1.13 billion websites. In 2022, 83% of websites were inactive. The rest, or at least 200 million, are online. Now, anyone can create a website because the Internet is readily available to them; all that is necessary is to create it and acquire a domain. 
• Chrome has become popular thanks to its innovation, flexibility in customization, and sheer speed: hang-ups and restarting the client whenever an add-on is installed are eliminated.
• Moreover, it connected seamlessly to other Google products and services.
• 6 out of 10 users want to use Chrome as they find it easy, fast, secure, and virtually excellent functionality.
• Besides becoming the preferred web browser for users on the Internet, Google secured a name for itself as the market leader in the search engine, with a staggering 6.9 billion daily queries. 

Google Chrome Market Share

• Google Chrome has 5.4 billion active internet users per month, which is estimated to be 3.48 billion globally.

• When Google released its initial version of Chrome in September 2008, it shifted the entire browser world dynamic that hinged on Mozilla Firefox and MSIE.

• Today, when Microsoft Edge is included to replace MSIE, the two have scarcely over 10% of the browser market combined. 
• Besides, there are now very few countries where Chrome does not enjoy the status of the top-rated web browser. 
• Only Apple’s Safari remains the most popular mobile in the United States. 

Safari Browser Market Statistics

• In December 2023, Safari had 18.56% of the internet browser market, and about 984 million people use it. 
• Safari currently accounts for 24.71% of mobile browsers worldwide, which is quite a lot since Apple only holds 28.83% of the smartphone market share. 
• Since January 2003, when Safari had overtaken Navigator as the original browser of choice on Macintosh computers, every single iOS device with internet connectivity is pre-installed with Safari as its default web browser.
• Safari is the only browser that beats Chrome on the tablet user base. 
• Out of tablet-only users in the US, 40.24% prefer Safari, while Chrome claims only 30.92%. This is likely due to Safari being pre-installed on iPads, which, of course, sell like hotcakes. It is the dominant US mobile browser, with over 55.21% of Americans using it on mobile devices.

• Originally, Safari was to be called “Freedom,” as coined by Steve Jobs, the man responsible for its creation. However, the developers insisted on the name “iBrowse.” 
• For December 2023, Safari still comes in a distant second, but its slow but steady growth over the decade means that it now enjoys a market share of somewhere close to 1 in every 5 web users.

Mozilla Firefox Browser Market Share

• By the end of December 2023, Mozilla’s Firefox possessed 3.36% of the total web market share across all platforms. 
• The share specifically coming from mobile devices during that period is recorded at only 0.52%. 
• In all plausibility, approximately 178 million people rely on Firefox today.

• Nonetheless, Firefox was born as an alternative to the most dominant Internet Explorer since the release of Phoenix 0.1 in September 2002. 
• Its immediate upsurge in market share is largely attributed to Internet Explorer’s slow release and lack of new features. 
• Between 2005 and 2010, 1 in 3 people surfing the Internet used Firefox. However, this side has lost popularity to Chrome and Safari since 2009, from 14.83% to 3.35% in the last 10 years. 
• On the Google Play Android store, Firefox boasts over 100 million downloads. 
• Firefox is a non-profit organization. More than 20% of users today have turned on the Enhanced Tracking Protection feature, which blocks third-party tracking cookies.

Microsoft Edge Browser Market Share

• By December 2023, Edge’s market share was 4.97% of the worldwide browser market, with about 263 million users as of now. 
• Edge is in a better position with 11.89% of the desktop market share while having a very tiny 0.24% for mobile browser usage.

• Having launched on July 25, 2015, it has managed to capture, but a small portion of the company says it hoped for a much higher share due to its high-profile codename ‘Spartan.’
• The original Edge was an HTML-based browser. In January 2020, Microsoft launched its Chromium-based version, merging users into the compatibility- and performance-focused version.

Samsung Internet Browser Market Share

• By December 2023, Samsung Internet’s share of the web browser market was 2.6% across all platforms, which is equivalent to over 138 million users influenced globally. However, more relevant is the 4.48% of mobile users. 
• Samsung Internet is a mobile device browser built on the open-source Chromium project. It is available on almost all smartphones. 
• Samsung Internet has reached over 1 billion installs from the Google Play Store since 2015, more than combined Firefox and Opera. This led Samsung Internet to become the sixth most used browser across all platforms worldwide, behind Chrome, Safari, Edge, Firefox, and Opera. 
• In the category of mobile devices available for installation, Samsung is the third most used, behind Chrome and Safari.

Browser User Statistics

• Asia-Pacific region has the highest mobile ad-blocking rate, 94%.
• Besides being one of the largest mobile internet markets in the world, Asia-Pacific is also notable for its use of ad-blockers. 
• An astonishing 36% of all smartphone users in the Asia-Pacific region use ad-blockers, which is not surprising because the best antivirus and VPN services have built-in ad-blockers.
• China and India have millions of users that are actively using ad-blockers. 
• Google Chrome is the most popular and most vulnerable web browser, having recorded 303 vulnerabilities back in 2022 and will have accumulated as much as 3,159 exposures over the years. 
• It is the only browser during the first five days of October that had new vulnerabilities. Some of the recent ones include CVE-2022-3318, CVE-2022-3314, CVE-2022-3311, CVE-2022-3309, and CVE-2022-3307. 
• 75% of all Internet Explorer and Edge browser users are running outdated browsers. 
• Microsoft browser market share statistics state that Microsoft has ceased offering support for all versions of IE except for IE 11 and is pushing users to download the new Edge browser. 
• Modern Edge is more feature-rich and well-suited to the current browser market. 
• Internet Explorer has earned a reputation over the years for being slow, clunky, and unreliable compared to newer browsers like Chrome or Firefox. Regularly prone to crashing, it is fondly known as the “top browser to install other browsers” by web surfers.
• A web browser opens a solid gateway to 18 million malware-ridden websites. 
• More than 60% of businesses worldwide have been victims of some type of malware attack, according to statistics on browser usage and security. 
• Chrome takes 15 days to fix any security loopholes, making it the fastest when it comes to issuing security updates, mainly as it checks for updates every 5 hours.

Country-wise Browser Market Share

Browser Usage Statistics in India

• Google Chrome is the absolute ruler of India’s browser market share, with 87.24% across all devices and 87.55% on mobile.
• The second-best is Opera, with 4.93% in general and 4.86% on mobile devices. Safari doesn’t have any wins in market share across the board, with a mobile score of 2.47% and only 11.07% on tablets, a market historically strong for the company. This contrasts with the smartphone market, where budget players like Xiaomi, Realme,  and OPPO lead sales in India. 
• Until 2016, it used to enjoy a 50/50 market share with Chrome, in which UC lost in the number of users migrating to Chrome.

• UC did well in the beginning because it offered a lite mode that lowered data usage and allowed 2G browsing. 
• Additionally, test results showed the browser saved 78% more data than Chrome and Firefox when reading web pages of around 1000 MB.

Browser Usage Statistics in the USA

• According to US market share, since the projection for the Google Chrome browser stands at around 49.82%, it receives the title of most-used across all platforms in that nation. 
• The No. 2 is Safari, enjoying 31.25% share; in total, both comprise about 80.99% of the market in America. 
• Compared to the same services on mobile, Safari has provided the best of over 55.21% of mobile browsing in the US, followed by Google Chrome with 37.98%. 
• The default browser on Galaxy phones comes in third with about 3.78%. 
• The default browser on the iPhones is Safari, and they own about 55% of the smartphone market base in the US, with Samsung in second place at 23%. 

Browser Usage Statistics in China

• Chrome is the top browser in China, occupying 51.58% of the platform market share and 60.36% on mobile. 
• All of the 4th, 5th, and 6th spots in the rankings are occupied by Chinese-developed browsers: UC, QQ, and 360 Safe. 
• Safari takes up the 2nd place with a 17.23% market share; 50.83% is a contributor to its tablet market share as the browser of choice. 
• Microsoft Edge takes 3rd place with an 8.92% market share overall and a 20.81% desktop share, which places it 2nd to Chrome in the desktop category. 
• UC Browser, built by UCWeb, was the 4th most popular in China, with 7.52% of the market on all platforms, 11.89% of them on mobile. 
• 360 Safe Browser, built by the company Qihoo, finished 5th with a market share of 7.33%.

Wrapping the stats up!

The latest stats reveal the current state of affairs in the browsing landscape. Chrome clearly holds an unbreakable command over the battlefield, while just a slight number easting behind pose no reasonable power to suggest otherwise: Safari and Mozilla Firefox. 

Internet Explorer has become a long-gone history. A long time ago, this browser entered into its immediate final resting date. And for a long time since, it has failed to provide any outlandish innovations, which it musters from an evolving user demand.” 

Chrome’s commanding position as a leader among other browsers seems to be unquestioned at this juncture, mainly stemming from the utmost amount of new digital content being created for the enhancement of the users, a Google search stat that is compelling enough to silence the skeptics lest they still exist regarding the continuing traction Chrome holds.

Hope you enjoyed our stat-based blog. Stay tuned with us to read more such informative blogs.

FAQ

1. Which browser has the worldwide market share leader in 2025?

In March 2025, Google Chrome was the market share leader which had a global market share of roughly 64.86%-65.72% of desktop and 66.73% on mobile.

2. How much of the market do Safari and Edge hold?

Globally, Safari comes in second with around 18–19%, and Microsoft Edge follows with approximately 5–6% share.

3. What is the most widely used browser?

Chrome continues to be the most commonly used browser on all platforms, with an overall usage share of around 64–65%.