Mike,
Thanks for this, whilst the sites I manage are pretty low-traffic, I
too have been seeing IE6 traffic of about 10-15%.
By mentioning "shoppers" I guess you are running an e-commerce site. I
would be very interested to know how your revenue is split across
browsers. It seems that IE6 users are either in a corporate system
using an XP standard operating environment or people using older
computers who may be a bit out-of-date when it comes to technology.
Would it be reasonable to assume that the second category probably
don't spend much money online? - so maybe the percentage of revenue
gained from IE6 users may be much lower that 10% ?
Thanks,
Andy
On 11 Jun 2010, at 21:32, Foskett, Mike wrote:
Hi all,
Ref "Links for light reading" article:
http://mashable.com/2010/06/01/ie6-below-5-percent/
Which basically states IEv6 has dropped below the 5% threshold
across USA and Europe.
I just took a peek at our own stats for May 2010.
A very large set limited to UK online shoppers only.
And I couldn't agree less with the article.
Our figures are from such a large representation they cannot be
readily ignored.
While I cannot print the actual numbers, the browser percentages
should be fine.
I thought they may be of use to others working in the UK and of
general use worldwide.
Internet explorer only:
IEv8: 48.26%
IEv7: 37.14%
IEv6: 14.58%
Other: 0.02%
In general:
IE: 66.12%
Firefox: 16.25%
Safari: 8.06%
Chrome: 6.89%
Others: 2.67%
So IEv6 is still at 9.64% overall. Virtually double that stated by
the article.
Sorry for the bad news but IEv6 is still too relevant to ignore.
And by the way who actually said 5% is the "ignorable" threshold?
I'd of thought more like 2-3% personally.
Regards,
Mike Foskett
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