Now it is two days since my first post on Chrome has appeared. Let’s see some statistics of our blog visitors (Google Analytics, of course :-)

Some conclusions:

• Firefox is over-represented: although Firefox has a good 20%+ or so world-wide market share, the 52%+ result here indicates that Firefox users are open to new browser technologies (no surprise there)
• Safari: ditto, although I suspect that some of the Safari visits are indeed Chrome visits before Google Analytics got smart enough to recognize it
• Chrome and Opera: Chrome got even with Opera in two and a half days. That is a statement, and might get Opera people a bit worried about market share.

Stop the presses!

A few hours (like 6) later we have a somewhat different picture!

Chrome gained 7%+ and it seems that my Safari-Analytics-Chrome theory has some substance as Safari is down markedly, while the other players are virtually unchanged.

Day 4: Chrome is second

So we are at day++, and the results are:

Chrome again gained 7%+ and is second only to Firefox, slightly edging out IE. Not bad for a four day older isn’t it?

I did a very quick speed test to see how fast Chrome is. BTW I did notice instabilities with the Flash plugin.

I run three benchmarks (on the same machine, all browsers open, running the benchmark only in one at a time):

• the V8 Benchmark Suite
• a nice SVG & Canvas speed test
• Sebastien Gruhier’s PGF test page (used earlier in a previous test).

The first test is more JavaScript oriented, where the new V8 virtual machine can shine, the other two test graphical abilities.

And the results are…

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