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You must use Internet Explorer at work: visual proof from Google Analytics
- wanderr 16y agoThis is why no sane commercial site can drop support for IE6. The people left using it largely have no choice.
- w1ntermute 16y agoBut is it really IE6? The site doesn't break it down by browser version, so it could be 7 or 8, which have relatively better standards support.
- wanderr 16y agoI'm not at liberty to share our GA data right now, but we see it for IE 6 especially. IE 6 is about 5% of our total traffic and it looks like the vast majority are people at work.
- tomjen3 16y agoHmm, that seems to imply that IE6 is finally going away. Unfortunately we have to wait for ie 9 to get access to the nice stuff.
- wanderr 16y agoIt is, but slowly. Are you willing to turn away 5% of your customers?
- jules 16y agoIf it saves you X% of time developing, yes. And some of those 5% can probably use portable Chrome/Firefox/etc.
- Hoff 16y agoAre they customers? One site I'm aware of asked a somewhat different question. They mapped the browsers of the visitors that were buying and how much each bought, and found a completely different answer. Though the site saw a higher percentage of IE than what was discussed here, the data showed the IE users weren't their customers. FF, Opera, Chrome and Safari all bought more and bought bigger than IE.
- wanderr 16y agoFor us, every user who visits the site is a customer, since we make money from ads.
- tomjen3 16y agoIf they give me expenses for more than 5%, then yes. In reality they will properly just have to do without the rounded borders, gradients, and nice picture frames that requires working css.
- wanderr 16y agoYeah I consider graceful failback to be supporting IE6. I'm talking about the sites that just don't work at all in IE6.
- icefox 16y agoSo only 2.5% are forced to use IE (drops around 50% during the weekend). The other 2.5% are users who will upgrade when they can't play farmville anymore.
- wanderr 16y agoTook a closer look at the numbers. In general our traffic goes down by about 20% on the weekend. For IE6 it goes down by 63% on the weekend. For IE as a whole it goes down by 30% on the weekend.
- daemin 16y agoOr it could be that there's a lot of not-very computer/Internet savvy people using the application during the week, and that their browser of choice is IE.
- sjwright 16y agoMy website (whirlpool.net.au) sees IE6 account for 2.3% of traffic on weekdays and 0.9% on weekends. Combining all versions of internet explorer together, the figures are 28% and 23%, respectively. The only browser with a greater-than-expected boost on the weekend is Safari, but only by a very small margin compared to the increase seen by Firefox and Chrome. All figures from GA.
- endtime 16y agoTrack.com gets 33% IE, only 13% of which is 6.0 (so about 4% total), 22% 7.0, 64% 8.0, and just under 1% 9.0. And most of our customers are financial institutions, who I wouldn't expect to be on the cutting edge. We actually get more people using Opera Mini (presumably Blackberry users) than we do IE6 users.
- geoffbp 16y agokudos to you sir, whirlpool is great! (and it has no ads)
- mathgladiator 16y agoWhat is the scale? These graphs are useless without magnitude.