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Re: Internet Explorer falls below 50% market share

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Post by ericabiz »

swombat wrote: post #2

Woobius traffic specs (quite representative of the enterprise space, so more realistic if you're doing an SaaS that also targets enterprise users/customers), are not too far off, but not 50% yet. IE: 56% Chrome: 20% Firefox: 16% Safari: 5% IE versions are broken up as: IE6: 10% (= 5.6% absolute) IE7: 25% (= 14% absolute) IE8: 65% (= 36% absolute) In other words, dropping IE6 support is not yet plausible. But we've al…

I run a business blog that is in the Alexa top 10K for US users. It probably leans slightly more techie than average. Most people read it at work. Here are its stats for the past 30 days:

Firefox 37.78% IE 26.63% Chrome 18.11% Safari 12.24%

OS: Windows 74.55% Mac 16.01% iPhone 2.63% (does not include iPad/iPod) Linux 2.5%

Re: Internet Explorer falls below 50% market share

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Post by bhjodokast »

As a web developer, I support all browsers that the client requested. Why is this non-story #1 on Hacker News?

As time goes on, old browsers are eventually replaced. Who's the impatient bastard(s) that have qualms with IE6?

Personally I love IE6... it guarantees that the project will pay well because of the extra support required.

Re: Internet Explorer falls below 50% market share

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Post by dolinsky »

For http://www.zootoo.com, which is representative of a non-computer savvy audience, our IE traffic is now below 50%.

IE : 45% (IE8 - 65% IE7 - 23% IE6 - 12%)

Firefox : 35% (3.6.x - 85% 3.5.x - 10.5% 3.0.x - 5%)

Chrome: 9%

Safari: 7.5%

Opera: 1.6%

We were also able to reduce the IE 6 traffic on our site by 50% by implementing a friendly 'please switch to a newer browser' campaign.

Re: Internet Explorer falls below 50% market share

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Post by pjscott »

Timmy_C wrote: post #29
cryptoz wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Wow, Google runs ads on Television? I consume all of my video media from the Internet these days so I guess I just didn't know, but that's surprising to me. Do they run the same type of promotional videos that you find on YouTube about Chrome, or are they totally different adverts?

Google ran an ad during the Super Bowl this year. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cekQrMEh1wY

That was a very good ad. On top of being well-produced and sweet, it taught people how to use the auto-suggest feature.

Re: Internet Explorer falls below 50% market share

#47

Post by armandososa »

swombat wrote: post #2

Woobius traffic specs (quite representative of the enterprise space, so more realistic if you're doing an SaaS that also targets enterprise users/customers), are not too far off, but not 50% yet. IE: 56% Chrome: 20% Firefox: 16% Safari: 5% IE versions are broken up as: IE6: 10% (= 5.6% absolute) IE7: 25% (= 14% absolute) IE8: 65% (= 36% absolute) In other words, dropping IE6 support is not yet plausible. But we've al…

    In other words, dropping IE6 support is not yet plausible.
Why? 5.6% does really justify the costs of supporting IE6?

Re: Internet Explorer falls below 50% market share

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Post by mcav »

armandososa wrote: post #47
swombat wrote: post #2

Woobius traffic specs (quite representative of the enterprise space, so more realistic if you're doing an SaaS that also targets enterprise users/customers), are not too far off, but not 50% yet. IE: 56% Chrome: 20% Firefox: 16% Safari: 5% IE versions are broken up as: IE6: 10% (= 5.6% absolute) IE7: 25% (= 14% absolute) IE8: 65% (= 36% absolute) In other words, dropping IE6 support is not yet plausible. But we've al…

In other words, dropping IE6 support is not yet plausible. Why? 5.6% does really justify the costs of supporting IE6?

It all depends on how much work goes into supporting IE6. If the amount of time is substantial, personally I would consider dropping it. But even until the bitter end, that decision depends on your target audience and how much you want that group to be forced to make a choice: upgrade or leave your site.

That's for functionality. I think we're long past the stage where you should care whether or not IE6 gets the same exact _visual_ experience.

Re: Internet Explorer falls below 50% market share

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Post by silverlight »

ericabiz wrote: post #41
swombat wrote: post #2

Woobius traffic specs (quite representative of the enterprise space, so more realistic if you're doing an SaaS that also targets enterprise users/customers), are not too far off, but not 50% yet. IE: 56% Chrome: 20% Firefox: 16% Safari: 5% IE versions are broken up as: IE6: 10% (= 5.6% absolute) IE7: 25% (= 14% absolute) IE8: 65% (= 36% absolute) In other words, dropping IE6 support is not yet plausible. But we've al…

I run a business blog that is in the Alexa top 10K for US users. It probably leans slightly more techie than average. Most people read it at work. Here are its stats for the past 30 days: Firefox 37.78% IE 26.63% Chrome 18.11% Safari 12.24% OS: Windows 74.55% Mac 16.01% iPhone 2.63% (does not include iPad/iPod) Linux 2.5%

Any way you could break down the specific IE versions?

Re: Internet Explorer falls below 50% market share

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Post by igrekel »

fertel wrote: post #12

In my small subset of the enterprise market, amongst my clients (large financial services firms) IE usage is 100%. Unfortunately I don't see this changing any time soon.

It is not completely impossible but there are 3 big reasons they stay with IE that I heard of.

Transparent Identification/Authentication, its is possible to support the protocols with Firefox but it is not as transparent.

ActiveX like stuff... sadly several enterprise applications use that.

Justifying the tests and rework of switching to a different browser.

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