Google Chrome held 69.65 percent of worldwide all-device browser usage in June 2026 (Statcounter, Browser Market Share June 2026) - more than four times the combined share of every rival at the top of the table. Safari trailed at 15.31 percent, Microsoft Edge at 5.21 percent, and Firefox at 3.33 percent (Statcounter, June 2026). Cloudflare Radar, which counts human request traffic rather than page views, measured Chrome near 66 percent and Safari at 15.4 percent for full-year 2025, confirming the same order through a different lens (Cloudflare Radar, 2025 Year in Review). This analysis consolidates data from Statcounter, Cloudflare Radar, DataReportal, Mozilla, and 4 other primary sources to map browser share by device, region, engine, and the emerging AI browser tier.
TL;DR
- Chrome held 69.65% of global all-device browser usage in June 2026 (Statcounter, June 2026).
- Safari was second at 15.31%, Edge third at 5.21%, Firefox fourth at 3.33% (Statcounter, June 2026).
- On desktop Chrome hit 72.24% and Edge 10.45%, while Firefox held 6.31% (Statcounter, June 2026).
- On mobile Chrome took 67.97% and Safari 24.07% (Statcounter, June 2026).
- Cloudflare Radar measured Chrome at 66.3% of human traffic in Q3 2025, up from 63.4% in Q1 2025 (Cloudflare Radar, Q3 2025).
- Safari commanded 79% of browsing on Apple devices in 2025, versus Chrome’s 19% (Cloudflare Radar, 2025 Year in Review).
- Chromium’s Blink engine powered roughly 78% of usage, WebKit ~15%, Gecko ~3% (derived from Statcounter, June 2026).
- In the US Chrome fell to 52.26% while Safari rose to 25.91% (Statcounter, June 2026).
- In China Edge reached 13.86%, just ahead of Safari’s 13.34% (Statcounter, June 2026).
- Firefox desktop share slid from 5.88% in May 2025 to 3.79% in May 2026 (Statcounter).
- Perplexity’s Comet (July 2025) and OpenAI’s Atlas (October 2025) opened the AI browser race; user bases stayed in the low tens of millions (Perplexity; OpenAI; third-party estimates, 2026).
- The web served 6.12 billion internet users as of April 2026, 73.8% of the world’s population (DataReportal, Digital 2026).
1. Global Browser Market Share: Chrome vs. the Field
Two measurement panels tell the same story. Statcounter, which weights page views across a network of tagged sites, puts Chrome at nearly 70 percent of all-device usage; Cloudflare Radar, which counts human HTTP requests across its global edge, lands a few points lower because it filters bots and samples traffic differently. The gap between Chrome and second-place Safari is roughly 54 percentage points on Statcounter’s June 2026 panel - a lead no browser has come close to narrowing in years. The two panels diverge most on Edge, which Cloudflare scores higher (7.4%) than Statcounter (5.2%) because enterprise request traffic is heavily represented on Cloudflare’s network.
| Metric | Value | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Chrome, all devices worldwide | 69.65% | Statcounter, June 2026 |
| Safari, all devices worldwide | 15.31% | Statcounter, June 2026 |
| Edge, all devices worldwide | 5.21% | Statcounter, June 2026 |
| Firefox, all devices worldwide | 3.33% | Statcounter, June 2026 |
| Samsung Internet, all devices | 1.95% | Statcounter, June 2026 |
| Opera, all devices worldwide | 1.74% | Statcounter, June 2026 |
| Chrome, human request traffic | ~66% | Cloudflare Radar, 2025 Year in Review |
| Safari, human request traffic | 15.4% | Cloudflare Radar, 2025 Year in Review |
Divergence note: the two panels agree on rank order but not on magnitude - treat any single browser figure as a range, not a point.
2. Desktop, Mobile, and Tablet: Three Different Markets
Browser share splits sharply by device, and the device mix itself is shifting toward mobile: Cloudflare counted mobile devices at 43 percent of all requests in 2025, up from 41 percent in 2024, with desktop at 57 percent. Chrome wins every device class, but its margin collapses on tablets, where Safari’s iPad strength pulls it within eleven points. Edge exists almost entirely on desktop - it barely registers on phones - while Safari’s mobile share (24%) is roughly five times its desktop share (5%). For context on how much of that mobile time happens inside apps rather than standalone browsers, see our mobile app usage statistics for 2026.
| Metric | Value | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Chrome, desktop worldwide | 72.24% | Statcounter, June 2026 |
| Edge, desktop worldwide | 10.45% | Statcounter, June 2026 |
| Firefox, desktop worldwide | 6.31% | Statcounter, June 2026 |
| Chrome, mobile worldwide | 67.97% | Statcounter, June 2026 |
| Safari, mobile worldwide | 24.07% | Statcounter, June 2026 |
| Chrome, tablet worldwide | 45.57% | Statcounter, June 2026 |
| Safari, tablet worldwide | 34.48% | Statcounter, June 2026 |
| Mobile share of all requests | 43% | Cloudflare Radar, 2025 Year in Review |
Outlier: on tablets, Android’s built-in browser still held 15.38 percent (Statcounter, June 2026), a legacy niche that has vanished on phones.
3. The Challengers: Safari, Edge, Firefox, Samsung, and Opera
Below Chrome, each browser survives on a different structural crutch. Safari rides Apple’s hardware install base; Edge rides Windows defaults and enterprise fleets; Samsung Internet ships on Galaxy phones; Opera clings to a loyal minority. Safari controlled 79 percent of all browsing on Apple devices in 2025, four times Chrome’s 19 percent there (Cloudflare Radar, 2025 Year in Review) - the single fact that keeps it in second place. Firefox is the lone independent in structural decline: its desktop share fell more than two points year over year, and its mobile share sits below one percent.
| Metric | Value | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Safari share on Apple devices (2025) | 79% | Cloudflare Radar, 2025 Year in Review |
| Safari, iOS share (July 2025) | 77.8% | Cloudflare Radar, Q3 2025 |
| Edge, human request traffic (2025) | 7.4% | Cloudflare Radar, 2025 Year in Review |
| Firefox, desktop (May 2025) | 5.88% | Statcounter |
| Firefox, desktop (May 2026) | 3.79% | Statcounter |
| Firefox, mobile worldwide | 0.70% | Statcounter, June 2026 |
| Samsung Internet, human traffic (2025) | 2.3% | Cloudflare Radar, 2025 Year in Review |
| Opera, desktop worldwide | 1.81% | Statcounter, June 2026 |
Context note: Chrome climbed from 63.409% of human traffic in Q1 2025 to 66.282% in Q3 2025 on Cloudflare Radar, nearly three points in two quarters - most of it absorbed from Safari.
4. Regional Divergence: US, Europe, and China
The global average hides sharp regional splits. Chrome’s grip is weakest where Apple is strongest and where local players compete. In the United States, Chrome dropped to 52.26 percent while Safari climbed to 25.91 percent (Statcounter, June 2026) - the narrowest Chrome-Safari gap of any major market. Europe looks more like the global mean. China is its own ecosystem: Edge outranks Safari there, and homegrown browsers (UC, 360, QQ) collectively rival the Western runners-up. US buyers also skew toward Firefox (8.78%) and Brave, both well above their worldwide shares.
| Metric | Value | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Chrome, United States | 52.26% | Statcounter, June 2026 |
| Safari, United States | 25.91% | Statcounter, June 2026 |
| Firefox, United States | 8.78% | Statcounter, June 2026 |
| Chrome, Europe | 62.69% | Statcounter, June 2026 |
| Safari, Europe | 17.80% | Statcounter, June 2026 |
| Chrome, China | 56.54% | Statcounter, June 2026 |
| Edge, China | 13.86% | Statcounter, June 2026 |
| UC Browser, China | 4.20% | Statcounter, June 2026 |
Outlier: in China, Safari (13.34%) barely edged out UC, 360 Safe, and QQ Browser combined - the only large market where Chrome faces a genuine domestic field.
5. Engines and Platforms: What Actually Renders the Web
Browser brands are the visible layer; rendering engines are the layer that decides what web developers can ship. Summing Statcounter’s June 2026 browser shares by engine, Chromium’s Blink engine powered roughly 78 percent of all usage (Chrome 69.65% + Edge 5.21% + Opera 1.74% + Samsung Internet 1.95%, before smaller Blink browsers), Apple’s WebKit about 15 percent via Safari, and Mozilla’s Gecko near 3 percent via Firefox. The platform picture underneath is just as concentrated: Android runs about 69 percent of mobile devices and Windows still anchors the desktop, the ecosystem detailed in our Windows 11 statistics for 2026 and smartphone market statistics for 2026.
| Metric | Value | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Blink engine share (Chrome, Edge, Opera, Samsung) | ~78% | Derived from Statcounter, June 2026 |
| WebKit engine share (Safari) | 15.31% | Derived from Statcounter, June 2026 |
| Gecko engine share (Firefox) | 3.33% | Derived from Statcounter, June 2026 |
| Android, mobile OS worldwide | 69.14% | Statcounter, June 2026 |
| iOS, mobile OS worldwide | 30.79% | Statcounter, June 2026 |
| Windows, desktop OS worldwide | 56.61% | Statcounter, June 2026 |
| iOS share of mobile request traffic | 35% | Cloudflare Radar, 2025 Year in Review |
| AI crawlers, share of HTML request traffic | 4.2% | Cloudflare Radar, 2025 Year in Review |
Measurement note: Statcounter’s Android/iOS device split (69/31) differs from Cloudflare’s traffic split (65/35 mobile) because iPhones generate more requests per device - a reminder that “share” depends on what you count.
6. AI Browsers and the DMA Reshuffle
The one genuinely new front in 2026 is the AI, or agentic, browser - products that embed an assistant that can read pages and act on your behalf. Perplexity shipped Comet in July 2025 and made it free that October; OpenAI released ChatGPT Atlas on October 21, 2025. Both remain a rounding error against Chrome, with third-party estimates placing their monthly active users in the low tens of millions each - under one percent of the 6.12 billion people online (DataReportal, Digital 2026). The more consequential 2026 shift is regulatory: the EU Digital Markets Act forced randomized browser choice screens on iOS, and Mozilla says the change doubled its daily active users in France and Germany on Apple hardware. For how these assistants overlap with search behavior, see our AI search statistics for 2026.
| Metric | Value | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Perplexity Comet, launch date | July 9, 2025 | Perplexity |
| Perplexity Comet, made free to all | October 2, 2025 | Perplexity |
| OpenAI ChatGPT Atlas, launch date | October 21, 2025 | OpenAI |
| Comet, estimated monthly active users | ~18 million | Third-party estimate, 2026 |
| Atlas, estimated monthly active users | ~10-15 million | Third-party estimate, 2026 |
| Mozilla iOS DAU, France and Germany | Doubled post-DMA | Mozilla, 2025 |
| DuckDuckGo hotseat effectiveness gain | 9x | Open Web Advocacy / DuckDuckGo |
| Internet users worldwide | 6.12 billion | DataReportal, Digital 2026 |
Caveat: AI browser user counts are vendor-adjacent estimates, not audited disclosures - treat the low-tens-of-millions figures as directional. Apple’s compliance changes are documented on its browser choice screen support page.
Summary: Browser Market Share by the Numbers
| Metric | Value | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Chrome, all devices worldwide | 69.65% | Statcounter, June 2026 |
| Safari, all devices worldwide | 15.31% | Statcounter, June 2026 |
| Edge, all devices worldwide | 5.21% | Statcounter, June 2026 |
| Firefox, all devices worldwide | 3.33% | Statcounter, June 2026 |
| Chrome, desktop worldwide | 72.24% | Statcounter, June 2026 |
| Edge, desktop worldwide | 10.45% | Statcounter, June 2026 |
| Chrome, mobile worldwide | 67.97% | Statcounter, June 2026 |
| Safari, mobile worldwide | 24.07% | Statcounter, June 2026 |
| Chrome, human request traffic (2025) | ~66% | Cloudflare Radar, 2025 Year in Review |
| Chrome, Q3 2025 human traffic | 66.28% | Cloudflare Radar, Q3 2025 |
| Safari on Apple devices (2025) | 79% | Cloudflare Radar, 2025 Year in Review |
| Chrome, United States | 52.26% | Statcounter, June 2026 |
| Safari, United States | 25.91% | Statcounter, June 2026 |
| Edge, China | 13.86% | Statcounter, June 2026 |
| Firefox, desktop (May 2026) | 3.79% | Statcounter |
| Blink engine share of usage | ~78% | Derived from Statcounter, June 2026 |
| Android, mobile OS worldwide | 69.14% | Statcounter, June 2026 |
| Mobile share of all requests (2025) | 43% | Cloudflare Radar, 2025 Year in Review |
| Internet users worldwide (April 2026) | 6.12 billion | DataReportal, Digital 2026 |
Methodology and Sources
Data was gathered by fetching the latest published figures from usage-measurement panels (Statcounter Global Stats, Cloudflare Radar), demographic reports (DataReportal), and primary vendor and regulatory disclosures, then cross-referencing browser and platform shares across at least two independent panels wherever possible.
- Statcounter Global Stats - Browser Market Share Worldwide, Desktop, Mobile, Tablet, and Regional (June 2026): gs.statcounter.com/browser-market-share
- Statcounter Global Stats - Operating System Market Share, Mobile and Desktop (June 2026): gs.statcounter.com
- Cloudflare Radar - 2025 Year in Review (December 2025): blog.cloudflare.com/radar-2025-year-in-review
- Cloudflare Radar - Browser Market Share Report for 2025 Q3 (published November 2025): radar.cloudflare.com/reports/browser-market-share-2025-q3
- DataReportal - Digital 2026 Global Overview (April 2026): datareportal.com/reports/digital-2026-six-billion-internet-users
- Mozilla - Browser choice and the EU Digital Markets Act (2025): blog.mozilla.org/en/firefox/eu-digital-markets-act
- Apple - About the browser choice screen in the EU (2025-2026): developer.apple.com/support/browser-choice-screen
- Open Web Advocacy / DuckDuckGo - browser choice screen effectiveness findings (2025)
- Perplexity and OpenAI - Comet and ChatGPT Atlas launch announcements (2025); AI browser user figures are third-party estimates
Data watch: Statcounter refreshes browser and OS share monthly, so July and August 2026 snapshots will be available shortly after this update. Cloudflare Radar publishes a browser market share report each quarter (a 2026 Q2 edition is expected mid-2026) plus an annual Year in Review each December. DataReportal issues Digital global and country reports in January, April, July, and October, so a mid-2026 refresh of the 6.12 billion internet-user figure is imminent.
Last updated: July 16, 2026.
We review and update this page quarterly as new data is published.