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I don't buy it. My company manages a number of websites; the site with the most homogenous use across all demographics shows IE at 80% usage. Here's a shot fr

by crikli 15y ago

I don't buy it. My company manages a number of websites; the site with the most homogenous use across all demographics shows IE at 80% usage. Here's a shot from the last couple of days: http://a.yfrog.com/img614/5741/ls8.png http://a.yfrog.com/img614/5741/ls8.png Edit: IE usage breakdown: http://a.yfrog.com/img612/6052/f2yf.png http://a.yfrog.com/img612/6052/f2yf.png

dmethvin 15y ago
It's natural for many people here to think whatever they are doing must be what everyone else is doing, but the average Internet user does not have a MacBook Pro running Chrome. And the ones that spend the most money on the Internet certainly can't be pigeonholed that way. Recently I worked with a high-fashion site in New York that you'd think must get most of their web hits from iPads and modern browsers, but no. More than half their traffic and sales came from IE6/7/8 users browsing the site from a corporate PC during their lunch hour.
misterbwong 15y ago
Agreed. Our (mostly non-tech industry) audience shows a similar browser breakdown.
seanalltogether 15y ago
Wikipedia shows IE at only 35% of it's current traffic, and they are a top 10 site. http://stats.wikimedia.org/wikimedia/squids/SquidReportClients.htm http://stats.wikimedia.org/wikimedia/squids/SquidReportClien...
- pbhjpbhj 15y ago
  It would be interesting to know the story behind some of those stats - I wonder why those people are using FF1.0? (or indeed if, perhaps that's just the UA string they set).
bzbarsky 15y ago
Is your site homogeneous across all demographics across the world? Because IE share in the US is higher than its share worldwide. The article is about worldwide share.
- crikli 15y ago
  US, certainly. I should have established the context.
mrdodge 15y ago
I work for an e-commerce company and our breakdown with 200,000 unique visitors a month is 54% IE, 19.22% Safari, and 14.36% Firefox, and 8% Chrome. IE 6 is < 1% and IE 7 is < 5%.
damoncali 15y ago
That sounds high. Most sites I've seen have been in the 30-50% range. I have a tech oriented site that has less than 5%.
- crikli 15y ago
  That's interesting; we run a range of sites from law firms to a VOIP switch producer to a big hospital system. IE usage ranges from 60-85%. Oddly enough the VOIP switch producer has the highest IE utilization, but we did a bunch of analysis and basically they have a lot of vendors and clients using PCs that are locked into using IE.
jQueryIsAwesome 15y ago
In case anyone is interested. In japan (young people): http://i.imgur.com/HQVwv.jpg http://i.imgur.com/HQVwv.jpg
ricardobeat 15y ago
Usage varies wildly according to demographics. The largest site I manage has IE at 44%, and it's a quite "non-technologist" market. My blog has IE at 1%, tied with Android, and a webapp is at 81% Chrome.
jwallaceparker 15y ago
This has everything to do with the audience of a particular site. Our small business portfolio websites see an IE share of above 75%. Our "Web 2.0" web-app sites see shares as low as 9%.

by crikli 15y ago

dmethvin 15y ago

It's natural for many people here to think whatever they are doing must be what everyone else is doing, but the average Internet user does not have a MacBook Pro running Chrome. And the ones that spend the most money on the Internet certainly can't be pigeonholed that way. Recently I worked with a high-fashion site in New York that you'd think must get most of their web hits from iPads and modern browsers, but no. More than half their traffic and sales came from IE6/7/8 users browsing the site from a corporate PC during their lunch hour.

misterbwong 15y ago

Agreed. Our (mostly non-tech industry) audience shows a similar browser breakdown.

seanalltogether 15y ago

Wikipedia shows IE at only 35% of it's current traffic, and they are a top 10 site. http://stats.wikimedia.org/wikimedia/squids/SquidReportClients.htm http://stats.wikimedia.org/wikimedia/squids/SquidReportClien...

pbhjpbhj 15y ago
It would be interesting to know the story behind some of those stats - I wonder why those people are using FF1.0? (or indeed if, perhaps that's just the UA string they set).

bzbarsky 15y ago

Is your site homogeneous across all demographics across the world? Because IE share in the US is higher than its share worldwide. The article is about worldwide share.

crikli 15y ago
US, certainly. I should have established the context.

mrdodge 15y ago

I work for an e-commerce company and our breakdown with 200,000 unique visitors a month is 54% IE, 19.22% Safari, and 14.36% Firefox, and 8% Chrome. IE 6 is < 1% and IE 7 is < 5%.

damoncali 15y ago

That sounds high. Most sites I've seen have been in the 30-50% range. I have a tech oriented site that has less than 5%.

crikli 15y ago
That's interesting; we run a range of sites from law firms to a VOIP switch producer to a big hospital system. IE usage ranges from 60-85%. Oddly enough the VOIP switch producer has the highest IE utilization, but we did a bunch of analysis and basically they have a lot of vendors and clients using PCs that are locked into using IE.

jQueryIsAwesome 15y ago

In case anyone is interested. In japan (young people): http://i.imgur.com/HQVwv.jpg http://i.imgur.com/HQVwv.jpg

ricardobeat 15y ago

Usage varies wildly according to demographics. The largest site I manage has IE at 44%, and it's a quite "non-technologist" market. My blog has IE at 1%, tied with Android, and a webapp is at 81% Chrome.

jwallaceparker 15y ago

This has everything to do with the audience of a particular site. Our small business portfolio websites see an IE share of above 75%. Our "Web 2.0" web-app sites see shares as low as 9%.