We’ve had a number of requests for Google Chrome stats, so here they are… Yesterday (September 2nd) the homepage of the Google’s new browser was the 130th most visited in the UK, accounting for 0.06% of all UK Internet visits. As you can see from the table below, www.google.com/chrome was fifth most visited site in our Computers and Internet – Software category, accounting for 1.52% of all traffic to the industry. However, its two main competitors – Microsoft and Mozilla – still received more traffic yesterday.

Yesterday the site’s average visit time was 2 minutes, implying that a significant number of visitors downloaded the application rather than just browsing for information. Unsurprisingly, most of the site’s traffic came from other Google properties, with the two main search properties in the UK accounting for over 80% of upstream visits. Other Google properties sending traffic to Google Chrome included Gmail, the official Google Blog and Google Image Search. As you would expect, other communications-based sites sending it traffic included Facebook, Bebo and Windows Live Mail (Hotmail).

We’ll provide more data as it becomes available, so keep and eye on the blog.

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Robin Goad

Robin Goad is Research Director, Hitwise UK. This piece was originally published on Hitwise analyst blog here.

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