Safari jumps to 61 percent of mobile browser share

(Credit: Net Applications)

Safari has won back some of the recent ground it lost to rival mobile browsers.

Apple's iOS browser captured 61.79 percent of all mobile browser Web traffic seen by Net Applications in March. That was a healthy rise from the 55.41 percent tracked in February.

Safari remained firmly in the lead last month, followed by the default Android browser in second place with a 21.86 percent share and Opera Mini in the third spot with 8.4 percent. But Safari has seen its share of Net Applications' Web traffic rocked a bit by the competition.

After rising steadily in past years, Safari's share has tread water over the past year or so. Its 61.79 percent share last month is just slightly higher than the 60.5 percent seen in March of 2012.

Over the same time, the shares for the default Android browser, Google Chrome, and Internet Explorer have inched up. The trend isn't exactly shocking given the increasing popularity of Android and the launch of more Windows Phone handsets and Windows... [Read more]