Again, interesting, stuff, Dave.
Concerning your remark:
> If I was Microsoft I'd be quite worried that the IT support pros,
> influencers and developers have such a different make-up than the
> mainstream.
I believe they are indeed concerned about this. AIUI they're a little
fed up with the constant remarks on fora like this where we're broadly
able to talk about "the standards browsers" and mean "every browser
except IE for which, everyone knows you need to put in workarounds." IE9
is going to take a big step towards changing that with support for SVG,
XHTML and more.
As for when IT departments get around to changing over to it, who can
say? Any bets for it being done in time to watch the 2018 World Cup on
an HTML 5 video feed?
Phil.
Dave Lane wrote:
For what it's worth, some of our non-techie sites (with much smaller
user numbers, as they're focused on the relatively tiny New Zealand
market) are showing a slightly rosier picture over the past month:
Advocacy website for cyclists (4544 visits):
IE: 41.57% (IE6-15.09% 7-37.96% 8-46.96%)
FF: 40.29%
CHROME: 9.09%
SAFARI: 7.68%
OPERA: 0.62%
IE6 = 6.27%
Sports clothing (28,337 visits):
IE: 49.92% (IE6-13.8% 7-27.06% 8-59.11%)
FF: 24.87%
CHROME: 6.20%
SAFARI: 17.82%
OPERA: 0.77%
IE6 = 6.88%
Brewers website (3,300 visits):
IE: 45.97% (IE6-10.42% 7-30.72% 8-58.87%)
FF: 30.06%
CHROME: 11.27%
SAFARI: 10.03%
OPERA: 1.03%
IE6 = 4.79%
Tourism operator (4,041 visits):
IE: 54.84% (IE6-11.60% 7-28.07% 8-60.24%)
FF: 26.73%
CHROME: 4.80%
SAFARI: 12.77%
OPERA: 0.42%
IE6 = 6.36%
For contrast, here're the stats for a tech company.
IT services and software dev company (3,050 visits):
IE: 15.02% (IE6-8.52% 7-19.87% 8-71.62%)
FF: 56.20%
CHROME: 18.52%
SAFARI: 5.48%
OPERA: 2.82%
IE6 = 1.28%
If I was Microsoft I'd be quite worried that the IT support pros,
influencers and developers have such a different make-up than the
mainstream.
Cheers,
Dave
On 12/06/10 00:32, Lea de Groot wrote:
On 11/06/10 9:32 PM, Foskett, Mike wrote:
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.
I have a couple of large .au 'mum and dad' sites (ie, not techie) and I
have similar results to your .uk figures:
Internet Explorer 67.11%
Firefox 17.19%
Safari 9.70%
Chrome 4.67%
with specific IE figures of
IE8.0 59.08%
IE7.0 28.46%
IE6.0 12.44%
ie IE 6 is at 8.3% overall - lower than your numbers, but still worth
testing for.
Interestingly, I have iphone/ipod numbers at 2.77% and rising fast - I
guess I better get those mobile versions up!
Lea
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