For all our supposed internet leadership, we North Americans are more likely to use Internet Explorer than people in any other continent in the world. Respected website traffic analysts Quantcast see a whole lot of people flying around the web every day and this morning the company published some browser numbers broken down by continent.
What part of the world has the highest percentage of people who use the best browser available, Google’s Chrome? Good job, South America, you’re number one. North America isn’t just #1 in I.E. use (not that there’s anything wrong with that), we’re also in last place for Chrome and Firefox. Check out the chart below.
What’s the takeaway here? At the very least it means that we North Americans should remember where we stand in terms of online sophistication by our mainstream population, relative to some other places in the world.
