In the US, mobile accounts for about 49% of web traffic and desktop about 48%
Verified Confidence: high
Primary source found; it says the same thing, the scope matches, and it is reasonably current.
- Commonly cited as
- "Most US web traffic is mobile"
- True origin
- Statcounter Global Stats — Desktop vs Mobile vs Tablet Market Share United States (Sept. 2026)
- Type
- Stat check: A widely repeated statistic traced back to its origin.
- Year
- 2026
- Data as of
- September 2026
- Last checked
- What the source says
Desktop vs Mobile vs Tablet Market Share in United States Of America - September 2026 Mobile 49.1 % Desktop 48.47 % Tablet 2.42 %
- Method & sample
- Statcounter counts page views on the 1.5M+ sites that use its tracking code; it is a share of page views, not of users or queries.
- Drift between quote and source
- Global mobile share is far higher (about 59%); the US is near even
- Interest
- n/a (web analytics firm publishing free aggregate data).
Safe rephrasing
Statcounter measured US web page views in September 2026 as 49.1% mobile, 48.5% desktop and 2.4% tablet.
Sources we opened
- Statcounter — US platform share (primary)
Machine-readable: /api/claims/statcounter-us-mobile-49-desktop-48-percent-sept-2026.json · Last checked 2026-10-16