browser stats

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My boss likes to think that it's ok to only develop for IE. Doing so would make my life easier, however for some reason the fact that I know he is wrong bothers me. He likes to rattle off claims that Mac users, for example, are much more predominant than Netscape 4.x users.

Does anyone know what percentage of pcs are Macs? Isn't it 5% or something? Does anyone also know what percentage of users are Netscape users. Of course the savvy of us all use modern browsers, however I'm certain we are way outnumbered by the people who have 3 year old computers and no need to upgrade from their NS4. I guess I should be taking advantage of the fact that my boss is asking me to do much less work than I have been (to support older broswers), but these sites get thousands of visitors and I cant help thinking that going IE only would be discriminating against a huge number of them.

 

[NikPreviousAcct]

What's even scarier is that there are some old Mac users who are now on PCs and also refuse to use IE in place of Netscape. Plain and simple, if you don't develop for those, no matter how small the number, you will lose those potential customers. Maybe your boss has come to that conclusion, accepted it, and is willing to take those minimal losses.

The percent of Nutscrape Aggrivator over Internut Exploder users is really, really small. 5% seems close, but I don't know. I haven't found anything either, and I've been looking for 10 minutes or so.

Good luck man.

nik

 

[notfred]

google is your friend

edit: 93.4% of users are using IE 4 or later. 89% are using IE5 or later.

 

[Soulflare]

I manage a motorcycle helmet web site that receives over 10,000 unique visitors a
month and on average no fewer than 42% of our visitors are using Netscape 4+.

More Mac users than Netscape users?? LMAO. Try 4-6% at the very most.

You need to be somewhat careful with sites that offer web user statistics, since most
of these sites collect the majority of their data from a pool of advanced users - giving
you misleading data such as the majority of users having their screen resolutions at
1024x768. My former boss kept complaing that we should be designing for 1024x768,
because 52% of users have this setting. I'd go home, look at the stats for the other
site I was working independently on, and see 33% at that setting, and 55% at
800x600.

Every site will deliver a different audience.

 

[Rallispec]

well, not sure if this helps you or not but i can give you the stats of browser usage for one of my webpages:

this month
1. 8418 -94.61% Microsoft Internet Explorer
2. 439 -4.93% Netscape
3. 16 -0.18% ia_archiver
4. 4 - 0.04% Opera/6.0 (Windows 2000; U) [en]
5. 2 -0.02% Opera/6.0 (Windows 98; U) [en]
6. 1 -0.01% Opera/5.0 (OpenBSD 3.0 i386; U) [en]

last month
1. 14021 - 95.86% Microsoft Internet Explorer
2. 554 - 3.79% Netscape
3. 21 - 0.14% Opera/6.0 (Windows 2000; U) [en]
4. 8 - 0.05% Opera/5.12 (Windows 2000; U) [en]
5. 2 - 0.01% Field blocked by AtGuard ?:Q
6. 2 - 0.01% SmartDownload/1.2.77 (Win32; Jun 19 2001)
7. 1 - 0.01% Sqworm/2.9.85-BETA (beta_release; 20011115-775; i686-pc-linux

 

[worth]

I use Opera myself, and find it really funny when a big corporate website does not support it. How hard is it to make a web page that can be viewed in all browsers? People don't seem to understand what HTML is, and they try to make the webpage look the same in all browsers. Instead, HTML was meant to simply tell the browser a guideline on how to format, and leave it up to the browser to decide on how to accomplish this.

It's not that hard to make a simple web page, that doesn't use millions of JAVA applets, Flash, DHTML, and all those useless features. A real corporate website should be fast, easy to navigate, with few pictures.

 

[Derango]

1.73% of the people who visited my web site were on a mac, 83% were using IE, 13% netscape, 41% 800x600, 38%1024x768

One lonley guy running in 16 color mode 😉

 

[Rallispec]

what web usage analyzer are you using that tell you screen resolution and OS platform?

i only get browser type

 

[Soulflare]

Webtrends.