Browser Market Share 2026: Complete Statistics Report

Worldwide Browser Share

Chrome accounted for 69.3% of browser page views worldwide in August 2026, according to StatCounter, which measures page views across more than a million websites. Safari is second at 15.9%, and Edge third at 5.4%. Chrome's share has risen, not fallen: its quarterly average went from 66.5% in Q1 2025 to 69.2% in Q1 2026.

StatCounter's mix of devices moves a lot from month to month. Mobile was 55% of page views in March 2026 and 49% in August, which shifts Safari's overall share even when the underlying browsers do not change.

Desktop Browsers

On desktop, Chrome's lead is larger, at 73.2% of page views. Edge is second at 10.5%, down from 11.7% in August 2025; its Q1 average fell from 13.7% in 2025 to 10.7% in 2026. Meanwhile Firefox and Safari each sit at about 5%.

Mobile Browsers

Mobile browser share mostly follows mobile operating system share. Safari took 26.0% of mobile page views in August 2026, up from 20.3% a year earlier, in line with iOS gaining share of StatCounter's mobile traffic over the same year. Samsung Internet, preinstalled on Samsung Galaxy phones, is third at 2.5%.

Tablet Browsers

Tablets are a small share of web traffic, about 1.5% of page views. Chrome leads there too, at 50.2%, with Safari at 32.2%.

Share by Continent

Chrome is the most-used browser on every continent. Its lead is narrowest in North America and Oceania, where iPhones are common and Safari takes close to 30% of page views.

Share by Country

The second browser changes by country: Safari in the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia, Japan, Germany, France and Indonesia, Edge in China and Brazil, and Opera in Nigeria and India. Firefox is third in Germany and, narrowly ahead of Edge, in France.

How Other Datasets Compare

StatCounter is not the only measurement. Users of US federal government websites, published by the Digital Analytics Program, show Chrome higher (68.7%) and Safari lower (19.8%) than StatCounter's US page-view figures (54.6% and 29.2%). Cloudflare's view of request traffic across its network put Chrome at about two-thirds in 2025. W3Counter, which tracks a different set of websites, shows Chrome much higher and Safari much lower, a reminder that each dataset reflects the sites it measures.

What the Browser Makers Report

Browser makers rarely publish user totals. Google's most recent official Chrome figure counts users of one security feature rather than all users. Mozilla is the exception: it publishes Firefox usage data every week.

What It Means for Web Teams

Most of the web now runs on two engines: Chromium, used by Chrome, Edge, Samsung Internet and Opera, and WebKit, used by Safari and by almost every browser on iPhone. Test in both, and treat Safari, especially on iOS, as a first-class target in markets like the United States, the United Kingdom, Japan and Australia, where Safari takes about 21% to 31% of all page views.

Your own analytics matter more than global averages. Country and device mix change the picture sharply: Firefox still has 8.5% of page views in Germany, and Opera 13.2% in Nigeria.

Widely Quoted Figures, Checked

Several browser statistics circulate with out-of-date numbers or no source at all. These are the ones we see most often, checked against current data.

Sources

Every figure on this page comes from one of the sources below, grouped by who published them.