Windows 10 adoption is also growing at a slow pace

Feb 2, 2016 12:50 GMT  ·  By

Statistics provided by the US government’s analytics.usa.gov service show that Google Chrome continues to be the top browser for loading their websites, as Internet Explorer is dropping closer to the 21 percent mark.

At this point, Google Chrome is being used by 41.8 percent of the visitors to US government websites while Internet Explorer has nearly half that score. A total of 21.6 percent of the computer users who connected to a .gov website in the United States were running Internet Explorer, with version 11 currently the leading version with 15.1 percent.

Internet Explorer 11 is the latest version of Microsoft’s browser and is the default option in Windows 7 and 8.1, while also being available for Windows 10 users (not as default, though, as it’s been replaced with Edge browser).

And speaking of Edge, Microsoft’s new browser is presently at 2 percent, according to these figures, which is pretty decent, given the limited availability of the application (as it’s currently integrated in Windows 10 only). Apple’s Safari is at 21.2 percent while Firefox dropped to 8.8 percent, so Google Chrome is very likely to remain the leading application for many months from now.

Windows 7 still king

As far as operating systems are concerned, Windows is obviously the leading platform with 54.3 percent, with Windows 7 taking the leading seat with 34.5 percent.

Windows 10 is quite far behind, so it appears that US government website visitors are not very interested in the new operating system, with only 8.5 percent of them using this version. Windows 8.1 is very close, with 7.2 percent.

iOS is the second platform in the charts, so iPhones and iPads are quite popular for Americans who look for information on government websites, and 18.1 percent of them are using such a device. Android is not far behind, as it’s currently at 16.3 percent.