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by thauck 5004 days ago
Two things:

1. I wish the author would define "market share" - is it % of users, percent of pageviews via that browser, or something else.

2. The adoption visualization really shows the difference between release strategies.

1 comments

The article was using the data from NetApplications which is % of users. Most % of page views, such as StatCounter, still show Chrome as the top browser.
Given the mechanics of Chrome prefetching, % of page views figures are somewhat suspect. (Yes, they try to correct for that, but are the corrections correct?)
Wouldn't prefetching actually bumps up the page view?
Yes. And when you artificially bump Chrome's page views, Chrome looks better.