Peter Fairweather wrote: > > On 28/02/2008, Mark Roberts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Just out of curiosity I looked up the visitor stats for my web site by >> browser: >> >> Internet Explorer 7 26% >> Internet Explorer 6 23% >> Internet Explorer 5.5 2.9% >> Internet Explorer 5 2.9% >> Firefox 26% >> Mozilla 2.9% >> Opera 5.7% >> Safari 5.7% >> >> The four flavors of IE have just under 55%, but Firefox (all versions) >> at 26% is way above the general average. I must attract an educated >> crowd :) (That's probably literally true: I put all my class material on >> line, so I expect a large part of the traffic is from my students, whom >> I advise to use Firefox.) >> > And the conclusion is?
Can't draw any conclusions from this data. Sample size is too small and knowing just the browser type isn't very helpful. It would be nice to break down browser type by physical location, for example: If you have a site for a local, brick-and-mortar business and all your IE6 visitors are from, say, Ulan Bator, you could switch over to PNG graphics (which IE6 doesn't support completely) without worrying too much about losing customers. But in browser compatibility and visitor stats, you can get into a "chicken-and-egg" situation: Is a decision not to support older browsers justified by their lack of presence amongst your site visitors? Or are these people not visiting your site much *because* of your lack of support? -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
