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> for many Yes, for many sites with a technical audience. But for sites with an older, less technically sophisticated userbase, IE still has the vast majority
by user24 16y ago
> for many
Yes, for many sites with a technical audience. But for sites with an older, less technically sophisticated userbase, IE still has the vast majority over other browsers.
I hear what you're saying about the widget. But is that downloads? In which case: selection bias. What do the stats look like as far as impressions go on the non-techy sites?
- axod 16y agoThose stats combine main client (chat.mibbit.com) with our widget, split roughly 50/50. The widget is used on various websites, gaming, stock trading, dating, etc etc Sure, it's still probably going to be slightly more tech, but I'm guessing there's quite a few other webapps who have similar demographic. It also depends on how 'global' you are. IE usage varies wildly by country.
- ssharp 16y agoHere are stats for the University I work at. It's still not a representative sample but does show a different picture. (Current Period): IE 35.01% Firefox 33.32% Safari 15.68% Chrome 14.56% (Current Period - 1 Year): IE 40.61% Firefox 38.79% Safari 12.92% Chrome 4.93%
- axod 16y agoPretty high Safari usage there. I'm guessing macs are extremely common at the University?
- ssharp 16y agoProbably more so than in the "real world". FWIW, our usage stats on OSX break down to about 2/3 using Safari and 1/3 using Firefox.
- mike-cardwell 16y agoWhat country? I suspect figures in Europe are very different from those in the US. European versions of Windows are now required to offer a selection of browsers at install time.
- ssharp 16y agoUS
- jeroen 16y agoFor a car site I run I get the following IE usage over the last couple of years (monthly visits in the 5K range): apr 2007 71.8% oct 2007 74.5% apr 2008 72.0% oct 2008 67.1% apr 2009 67.6% oct 2009 65.6% apr 2010 58.5% oct 2010 61.2% That's still a considerable majority of IE users.