Posted by Chaddy2222 on 07/27/07 05:33

On Jul 27, 3:12 am, "Fred Doyle" <fdoy...@nycap.rr.com> wrote:
> "Chaddy2222" <spamlovermailbox-sicur...@yahoo.com.au> wrote in message
>
> > I tend to agree with you about the fact that people are not as willing
> > to install plug-ins anymore. I am not sure on the 50% figgure for non
> > IE users, but I would not be shocked by that as many people are not
> > happy with IE7 and want what it has to offer but need a better browser
> > (they notice that FF have been doing what IE now does for years and
> > have swiched).
> > --
>
> On our site, in the US, with about 1.7 million visitor (12% international)
> in the last 6 weeks, we saw 72% IE (45% of total visits in IE 6, 26% of
> total visits IE 7, 1% IE 5), 18% Firefox, 3.5% Safari, the rest in mostly
> other Mozilla based browsers. So although we have a higher percent of
> Firefox visitors than the norm in theUS, adoption of IE 7 is outpacing
> adoption of Firefox.
>
> Windows OS accounts for 89% of visits (including 25,000 visitors using
> Windows 98 and 514 visitors still using Windows 95), BTW, Mac about 4.5%,
> all flavors of Linux is about .5%.
>
> Does it show I've been analyzing stats in preparation for a site redesign?
> ;-)
>
> Fred Doyle

Fred, you have a lot of time on your hands obviously. But the stats on
IE7 were interesting. I must say all my sites now use XHTML1.0 strict
code with CSS, I like the mark-up and all decent modern browsers
handle it fine, a part from IE7, it also works fine with
Screenreaders, such as Jaws. On IE5.5 and below, I would not bother
supporting them really as only a small percentage use it + it's CSS
support is not that grea.
--
Regards Chad. http://freewebdesign.awardspace.biz

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