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Google Chrome Market Share (Netherlands)
Especially now that Google Chrome has been sending all visitors over the secure connection by default since January 2013. And that already happened with Firefox since July 2012. Both browsers have a combined market share in the Netherlands of almost 50%. According to Statcounter, Google Chrome has even been the most used web browser in the Netherlands since last month.

Including logged-in users in other browsers, it is not difficult to imagine that the share of (not provided) will easily exceed 50% in 2013.

Market share development web browsers in the Netherlands, 2012-2013 (source: statcounter)
Figure 3: Market share development of web browsers in the Netherlands, 2012-2013 (source: Statcounter )


Now you are probably wondering: can I still find out the keywords behind '(not provided)'? If you answer this question very literally: no. The keyword is simply not passed on anymore, so you cannot know.

However, you can make a good guess as to what keywords were likely used. You can use the following tactics to do this:

Google Webmaster Tools
Advanced web analysis (e.g. in Google Analytics)
Monitor rankings
1. Google Webmaster Tools
Google still stores all information about lebanon phone data keywords and visits to your website in Webmaster Tools . This free software from Google still tells you which keywords you are found on. This clearly shows how many keywords you are missing in your web analysis report:

difference between Google Analytics and Google Webmaster Tools
Image 4: Difference between Google Analytics and Google Webmaster Tools

Keywords per page
The insight into the keywords per page is even more interesting. After all, in SEO you are optimizing pages for keywords. Google Webmaster Tools also provides insight into this, for example:

Sample Google Webmaster Tools Report Per Page
Image 5: Example of keywords per page in Google Webmaster Tools.