<p>Anyone remember when Netscape came out in 1994 and dominated internet browsers? Microsoft then illegally used its monopoly power to destroy Netscape. Finally Microsoft gets a little payback from Chrome. Once it achieved browser dominance, Microsoft let its pace of innovation slip and now it’s in second place in a real competition. </p>
<p>I think it is for desktops and laptops but it could include other devices I suppose. Remember that Microsoft pre-installs IE but not Chrome so the results are even more amazing.</p>
<p>This likely discounts the usage of IE on huge numbers of workplace PCs as well since the sites they’re generally accessing are often on a private network and not subject to hits on this stat counter. A lot of IT departments still insist on only allowing a particular browser on their corporate network since they don’t want to have to support multiple of them.</p>
<p>I believe chrome also pre-fetches pages that it decides you might click on. Not only would this make it appear faster, but it would falsely elevate page visits because you might not ever click the link.</p>
<p>If one person uses thing A a thousand times, and a thousand people use thing B one time, which is more popular?</p>