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Looking at their usage "graph" (if the relative visuals indicate actual percentages), it appears that IE overall is a very small percentage of their views - per
by feverishaaron 13y ago
Looking at their usage "graph" (if the relative visuals indicate actual percentages), it appears that IE overall is a very small percentage of their views - perhaps 3-5%. Within that small percentage, IE 8 makes up what appears to be around 20% of all IE users. So they are spending time to optimize for around 1% and maybe 2% of their total views.
I'd suggest that it probably isn't worth it to spend a significant amount of time to support an audience that small. To determine if this is true, the company should track conversions from those using the IE browsers. If they have an average or higher than average number of conversions, one could argue that it is worth the time spent.
Otherwise, you are probably wasting significant engineering and design resources to solve problems for laggards who probably won't give you any money.
- badman_ting 13y agoSometimes a small portion of users can represent an outsize amount of value. As the OP's response to your comment would imply.
- bensedat 13y agoThat's normally very true. What we didn't say in the article was that we have some customers whose corporate IT departments haven't upgraded yet and we didn't want to drop them on the wayside :)
- jffry 13y agoI think the latter point of his argument still stands. Presumably you're able to justify the cost of testing for and dealing with IE8 problems because enough of your revenue and conversions come from IE8-bound users. If that's not the case, why would you still support IE8?
- borski 13y agoYou're correct. Large corporations take ages to upgrade.