I know that everyone's audience is slightly different, and my own experience is no more than my own experience - doesnt necessarily reflect the internet population as a whole but i was looking at the site stats on my two highest-traffic sites today and saw that for the first time i can ever recall, IE doesnt account for the vast majority of traffic.
Until now, on those two sites, IE has accounted for at least 2/3 to 3/4 of the traffic. For so long, IE's percentage was in the 90s. Now today, i see the last 30 days shows as follows: IE: 52.5% Bots,Spiders 28.3% Firefox: 11.2% Safari 3.2% Unknown: 3.1% All the rest: 1.7% Now I know that these figures only represent my own audience, and IE is still the most used browser by quite a long chalk, but it does signify a shift of quite large proportions in my traffic. Had I not taken a decision a couple of years ago to design for standards first, then to adjust for IE later, i'd be scrambling now to redo a lot of my sites. In fact my site with the oldest design, the last done before i started to build with standards has the lowest percentage of non-IE traffic. It looks crap in Firefox, because it was never designed with standards in mind. And I think it indicates that poor design for that browser has resulted in my driving away traffic. So now the pressure is on to redesign it using XHTML and CSS to strict standards so it looks good in the full range of browsers. No longer can I say "well the vast majority of the users have IE and the rest are basically insignificant." And i suspect the same is true for a great many web sites owners. -- Cheers Mike Kear Windsor, NSW, Australia Certified Advanced ColdFusion Developer AFP Webworks http://afpwebworks.com ColdFusion, PHP, ASP, ASP.NET hosting from AUD$15/month ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:245197 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
