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I would not recommend this if you want your product to hit the average user - IE has the biggest market share (still :(). But of course, for Instpaper it's perf
by amix 18y ago
I would not recommend this if you want your product to hit the average user - IE has the biggest market share (still :(). But of course, for Instpaper it's perfectly right to do so since the market is power-users and they mostly us FF (as the author notes).
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- eli 18y agoI can tell you with some authority that if you're targeting corporate users, about 2/3 of the traffic is internet explorer. Worse is that about 40% of that IE traffic is IE6.
- SystemOut 18y agoDid you read the post? He said less than 10% of his traffic is IE6. I'd say he is making the right call based on those demographics. When you look at resource decisions you have to look at the target market...and somehow I don't think it's corporate. If he was targeting corporate users he'd probably also build a Crackberry app. And your 40% is just way off base unless you're writing salesforce.com apps or something like that. We see about 20% of our IE traffic at IE6 still and dropping fast. 18 months ago that was still at 50%.
- nonrecursive 18y agoI think eli was replying to the parent comment, not commenting on the article. Also, 40% of 2/3 is about 26% of the whole, which I wouldn't call "wildly off base" even for your site.
- SystemOut 18y agoI said 20% of our IE traffic is IE6 which is 20% of 70% which is more like 14% so that would be a pretty large deviation from 26% when I'm trying to determine where to put resources. When you factor in trending over the next 6 months you have to realize that number is going to drop probably another 5-10% of overall traffic.
- eli 18y agoDepends on how focused you are on corporate users and the undsutry. In some industries 30% of ALL traffic is IE6. That's trending down, but slowly. Perhaps 1 or 2 points a month.
- dcurtis 18y agoFor those who are curious, here's the browser makeup of Hacker News traffic to all of my articles that have been on the front page here: http://dustincurtis.com/screenshots/Browsers_-_Google_Analytics-20090302-201943.jpg http://dustincurtis.com/screenshots/Browsers_-_Google_Analyt...
- ciscoriordan 18y agoDoes iPhone's Safari get categorized under Safari in that chart? If yes, you might want to separate it.
- nuclear_eclipse 18y agoGoogle Analytics doesn't let you separate iPhone from Mac Safari, unless you specifically choose to look at Browser/OS pairs, in which case you get "Firefox / Linux", "Firefox / Windows", ... "Safari / Macintosh", "Safari / iPhone", etc.