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I keep reading this, but I'm yet to see any stats - and the stats from my site don't support this at all. Can you cite?
by gstar 16y ago
I keep reading this, but I'm yet to see any stats - and the stats from my site don't support this at all.
Can you cite?
- isleyaardvark 16y agoThere's not a whole lot to cite, estimates are fairly rough since many analytics programs are javascript based. I can point you to the Firefox "Popular Extensions" section (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/browse/type:1/cat:all?sort=popular https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/browse/type:1/cat:a...) NoScript is #5 at 354,158 weekly downloads, and the NoScript page itself which claims 65,864,095 total downloads (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/722 https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/722). Then there are the corporate offices where javascript is disable by IT, or even worse, I've heard of cases where a business uses a proxy service that switches out .js files with empty files, which not only gets rid of the JS, but it also means that noscript tags aren't visible since JS is still enabled. Whether that's significant or not is a matter of opinion. Most estimates I've seen are 3-6%, but should be taken with a big grain of salt. For sites I've worked on I tend to see about 2-4% of users using Google Chrome as their browser, for comparison. I realize this doesn't help much.
- gstar 16y agoThanks, no - it does help, I hadn't thought to check NoScript's download stats. I was aware that most web stats packages use javascript to report stats - when we did the exercise of checking for disabled JS, that's where we looked.