The use of mobile devices to surf the web reached an all-time high in December, accounting for 7.7 percent of browser usage according to Net Applications's measurements of daily visits to its network of 40,000 websites.
Mobile browsing accounted for 7.7 percent of browser usage in December, according to statistics from Net Applications. Credit: Net Applications
That may still be a small fraction of total web traffic, but it is a large and growing population in absolute numbers. Among mobile browsers, Apple's Safari remained the top dog in December with 53.3 percent of usage, a drop from 55.0 percent in November. Opera rose to 21.7 percent and Google's Android browser dipped to 15.9 percent in December, making their reversed positions in October look more like an anomaly than the new order.
In the desktop browser market, months-long trends continued unabated. The top dog, Microsoft's Internet Explorer, fell from 52.6 percent to 51.9 percent. Mozilla's Firefox also fell, 22.1 percent to 21.8 percent, while Google's Chrome rose from 18.2 percent to 19.1 percent.
For more on this ZDNet UK-selected story, see Mobile browsing reaches all-time high on CNET News.
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