With 55.57 per cent control of the market as of
Monday, Opera is currently the highest patronised
browser in Nigeria.
The browser started the year with 48.13 per cent
market control, moved up to 52.94 per cent in May
before it experienced a spark that pushed it to above
55 per cent on Monday.
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The information is sourced from StatCounter , an online
Internet resource organisation. Every day, the online
platform tracks Internet activities in different parts of
the world, rating performances and dynamics on
certain parameters.
Opera’s performance is an average of the figures it
polls from four major Internet browsing platforms –
desktop, tablet, mobile and console – captured by the
researcher.
The figure is driven by the patronage it receives from
mobile Internet subscribers, where it garnered 68.81
per cent on Monday to maintain its clear lead in the
category. Even with its dominance, the charts point
upward.
Opera is distantly followed by Google Chrome, which
polled 12.91 per cent across various computer and
mobile devices to become the second highest
performing browser in the country.
With 48.84 per cent of desktop browsing activities in
Nigeria conducted via Chrome, it took over from Mozilla
Firefox to become the most popular browser among
Internet subscribers who use computers. Its six-month
average is 37.86 per cent.
Firefox, which started the year with 4.92 per cent,
dropped to 35.97 per cent on Monday to settle for the
second position. With 40.92 per cent, its six-month
average is still the highest in the desktop category.
Across different platforms, Firefox and UCWeb Browser
trail behind Chrome as the third most used browser in
the country. They are competing for the third position.
Both browsers control slightly above eight per cent of
the Internet market each.
According to the statistics, Internet Explorer has
continued to struggle, losing the market it once
dominated to newer brands.
Across all platforms, Internet Explorer’s six-month
average is 3.14 per cent. The overall performance is
boosted by its 14.85 per cent six-month average on
desktop. This indicates that it could lose more market
share as more subscribers migrate to mobile platforms.
This has been the trend in recent times.
Internet Explorer mobile device browser has been
patronised by 1.39 per cent of the market in the past
six months, on the average.
As soon as Microsoft replaced Internet Explorer with
Windows series, the Internet market influencers
pronounced the search engine dead. Reports say
subscribers have continued to migrate to more-secure
browsers.
Google, a global leader in searches, has continued to
lead that area of the Internet. In Nigeria, it has
sustained its leadership with 90.92 per cent six-month
average in search engine performance analysis.
Google is followed by Bing’s 4.76 per cent, Yahoo’s
2.72 per cent as second and third top-performing SEs
respectively. Ask Jeeves, WebCrawler and other new
entrants trail behind.
Android is also the leading operating system,
commanding 31.81 per cent of the market on the
average in the past six months. This statistic cuts
across different platforms – desktop and mobile
devices.