Pleasant Surprise: My visitors are current!

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Pleasant Surprise: My visitors are current!

General-interest site, < 5% on obselete browsers

MatthewHSE

12:27 am on Jan 28, 2010 (gmt 0)

My main site is very much general interest (well, niche in its way, but definitely not attracting a distinctively tech-savvy crowd).

According to Google Analytics, about 3.5% of my visitors are using IE6 or lower, while about 1% are using Firefox 2.x or lower.

Given that IE7 was a significant step up from IE6 and does indeed support most of the things I've been wanting to use for years, it looks like I can finally give up IE6 support and move on to real web design.

Bring on the transparent PNG's and :hover! :)

onlineleben

8:33 am on Jan 28, 2010 (gmt 0)

General interest site too
Firefox surpassed IE now showing 45.6% vs. 44.2%
Firefox usage is about 60.3% for the 3.5x versions and only 1,27% for ver 2.
IE usage: 8.0 = 50%, 7.0 = 35%, 6.0 = 15%

lammert

9:34 am on Jan 28, 2010 (gmt 0)

My IE6 share is still 13.8%, probably because many of my visitors are coming from corporate networks.

phranque

12:54 pm on Jan 28, 2010 (gmt 0)

one site i track is still 10% IE6.
another is over 50% Safari!

Dijkgraaf

12:41 am on Jan 29, 2010 (gmt 0)

Internet Explorer 8.x 45.1%
Internet Explorer 7.x 26.5%
Internet Explorer 6.x 10.7%
Internet Explorer 5.5 0.2%
Internet Explorer 5.x 0.5%

Firefox 3.5x 12.3%
Firefox 2.0x 0.6%
Firefox 1.5x 0.3%

Opera 9.x 0.8%

But my site probably has few users so a single users can probably skew the results.

caribguy

1:09 am on Jan 29, 2010 (gmt 0)

Sample size ~10,000 absolute unique visitors
Compared with same dates 1 year ago

Site I
Latest . Year
IE 62.2 71.3
FF 21.5 19.5
SA 11.9 7.9

IE8 47.3 1.0
IE7 37.0 71.0
IE6 15.7 27.9

Site II
Latest . Year
IE 67.8 75.1
FF 19.5 18.1
SA 7.9 4.7

IE8 51.0 1.3
IE7 35.9 72.1
IE6 13.1 26.6