Google Chrome overtakes IE as Top Web Browser

Google's Chrome web-browser has for the first time ever surpassed Microsoft's Internet Explorer to become the mostly used browser worldwide for the whole of last week.

Chrome comes in at 32.5 per cent and Internet Explorer at 32.1 per cent for the last two weeks worldwide.

In December 2011 Chrome had overtaken Firefox but still it was lagging behind Internet Explorer. Then it was observed that Chrome has been overtaking IE for quite some time on weekends but now this is for the first time that it has exceeded IE for an entire week.

In the week of May 14th to 20th, Chrome superseded IE in global calculation as recorded by popular web analytics site StatCounter.

Although the global statistics provides the above result if we consider it continent wise or country wise the story is something different. It seems there is a special preference for a certain browser in case of each country or at least for a group of countries.

While the UK and the US remain quite IE-biased with Chrome lagging far behind, in Asia, Chrome is the most popular browser despite a sharp recession in the recent weeks.

Apparently maximum traffic to chrome is flown from Asia and South America. However, Internet Explorer and Firefox are dominant in North America and Europe respectively.

Coming to India, Chrome is the leader with around 8 percent lead over Mozilla's Firefox. Conversely, Internet Explorer is widely used in Japan, China and South Korea with more than 50percent of the traffic share.

While Chrome continues to be on the top, it seems May 2012 may be the first month in history that the Google browser will be on top of the browser market.