According to the page you linked, the difference is because NetApplication uses unique daily users instead of page hits. NetApplications also uses some different weighting per country. StatCounter also use a much larger sample, 3 million websites vs 40k.

I would guess, this means there are still more people using IE, but those using Chrome use the internet more often?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_web_browsers#Dif...

I always find Net Applications' market share numbers misleading and inaccurate. Whatever method they are using for measuring market share, I'm sure it's flawed.

Here are my numbers

Chrome - 63.1%

Firefox - 21.1%

IE - 7.1%

These are heavily biased towards young (13-25) Windows users who play games.

I've noticed the massive dominance of Chrome for some time, but the numbers are not clear enough to show a rise or fall in its use over time.

Chrome certainly used to feel snappier with JS, which probably attracts the gamers.

Not sure why I got a down vote for this. Probably as it's anecdotal? What I should have said: from my experience Chrome feels snappier with Javascript performance at least while playing typeracer. And I read into that, that JS games perform better under Chrome.

I wouldn't worry about random downvotes, no karma system works. 'snappiness' is a potential driving factor for Chrome use. I'll try and do some research on users at some point.

Also worth mentioning: W3Schools since their user-base is mostly technical (web developers).

http://w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_stats.asp

Mediawiki is by far the most accurate representation. Wikipedia is on the top of most searches, and targets most demographics.