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20% of browsing is now mobile, research finds Dec 15th 2013, 15:11, by Gregg Keizer Mobile devices generated 20 percent of the world's browsing activity last month, the first time that the surging category reached the one-in-five milestone, according to a Web analytics company. Dublin-based StatCounter pegged November's mobile browser usage share—a tally of website pages viewed, and thus a measurement of online activity—at 20 percent, with personal computers accounting for the remaining 80 percent. In the last 12 months, mobile's global usage share grew by 7 percentage points, representing a 53 percent annual increase. Mobile's browsing growth is in part a side effect of a global slump in personal computer sales as customers instead purchase smartphones and tablets, and as a result, shift their time spent online from PCs to mobile. For the year, personal computer shipments will be more than 10 percent lower than the year before, when shipments contracted by a then-historic 4 percent compared to 2011. To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Media files: phone-browsers-trio-100032189-small.jpg

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