andy206uk — Mon, 05 Feb 2007 23:20:49 +0000

Traffic is mostly UK - probably about 95%!

I totally agree with your view on standards support - but that isn't going to happen unless the W3 stop being so vague in the specs!

Megan — Mon, 05 Feb 2007 18:36:03 +0000

Also, is anyone else starting to downgrade support for v. 6? I am starting to use some more advanced selectors that don't work in 6 (for non-essential purposes), and I am allowing a few minor display differences as well. Can't be bothered when usage is falling so quickly. So everything looks fine in IE 6, just not as good as it does in other browsers.

I was thinking on my way to lunch that browsers should have to either support something correctly or not at all. Advanced selectors are a good example - extra stuff just doesn't show up in 6 and better browsers get the full display. Much better than faffing around getting it to show up the same way in every browser.

Megan — Mon, 05 Feb 2007 16:57:55 +0000

Wow, that's a great uptake of IE 7 for that site! Is it a primarily UK site or is it more international? The site I maintain is primarily Canadian, and mostly university students.

andy206uk — Mon, 05 Feb 2007 16:20:57 +0000

Wow... look at that. Our IE stats are almost reversed!

andy206uk — Mon, 05 Feb 2007 16:17:49 +0000

Wow... that's very different from the stats I have. As part of my job I maintain a very large and busy website (uses nearly a terabyte of bandwidth a month!). Here are my stats from there:

MSIE (all builds) - 66.2 %

Msie 7.0 - 41.5 %
Msie 6.0 - 24.6 %

FIREFOX (all builds) - 28 %

Firefox 2.0.0.1 - 20.3 %
Firefox 1.5.0.9 - 5.9 %

Others (including safari, opera camino etc) - 5 %

Megan — Mon, 05 Feb 2007 14:28:33 +0000

That last time I posted, about 2 months ago, the numbers looked like this:

IE7 - 11.6%
IE6 - 54%
(IE combined 65.6%)
Firefox - 26%
Opera - 2.2%

Now I've got:

IE7 - 27.3%
IE6 - 40.1%
(IE combined 67.4%)
Firefox - 26.4%
Opera - 3.1%

Opera is up, IE overall is up, and Firefox is about the same! (it was up for a bit too - looks like some Firefox users may hav switched to Opera) Looks like those extra users came from older versions of IE, and Netscape which is down from 1.3% in December to 0.2% today.

So there you go - this audience is generally younger, more affluent and more tech-smart than most, but this shows you that you can expect major variations between sites (i.e. the counter is showing IE 6 at 58% for February)

I would be interested to see what kind of stats others are getting for particular audiences.

Megan — Mon, 11 Dec 2006 19:12:35 +0000

Update: A week and a half into December and IE 7 is up to 11.6% (up 4% over November) on the site I'm tracking. IE 6 is at 54% which is down 6% from last month. Firefox usage is up 2% to 26%, which means that of the 6% who switched from IE 6, 2% went to Firefox, while the rest went to IE 7. There was also a consolidation of firefox versions, with some users upgrading from older versions.

Time to start doing more routine testing in IE 7.

Megan — Wed, 06 Dec 2006 16:42:00 +0000

conrad;211454 wrote: Posted this on another thread but it might be useful to everyone keeping tarck of this one...

This website has a series of statistics that is taken from a wide variety of websites that have registered them so it gives a cross section of web users across the world and when the traffic occured - Of course with the latter it doesn't say whether the websites do specific marketing for the weekends.

http://www.thecounter.com/stats/2006/December/browser.php

I use that site sometimes but find that the stats on my site vary quite significantly from the counter. So you can't rely on averages like that all the time. Your site may have a unique audience that uses quite different settings.

http://www.webmaster-forums.net/showthread.php?t=36392

andy206uk — Wed, 06 Dec 2006 16:28:19 +0000

My end of november results for IE7:

ipodx.co.uk - 5.19%
pug-cc.com - 7.75%
bomb.org.uk - 1.35%

Megan — Wed, 06 Dec 2006 16:04:19 +0000

Update: November ended with 7.5% using IE 7. I'm actually a little more concerned about Firefox users - of a total 24% using Firefox, only 6.4% had the latest version (2.0), the others were spread over versions 1.0 - 1.5.0.8. I use Firefox occasionally for testing and yet I don't recall recieving any notification that there was a new version and I should upgrade (that always happens with Opera). This could be an ongoing problem - if Firefox isn't doing enough to notify people of a new version then we could end up with a lot of people using old versions of Firefox for a long time...