Hello all,
Fantastic information - this is very interesting indeed. Thanks to
Kim for the bbc.co.uk information, Richard and Brain for their
information and James for the virginradio.co.uk and the other sites.
I think this allows us all to build up quite a clear picture of what
the 'average' user will surf with.
From the bbc.co.uk data, if IE5.5 is more or less on a par with
Safari, there are two ways of looking at it
- Since the number of users are similar, if you support Safari you
should support IE5.5
- Alternatively since IE5.5 will be harder work to support, and it's
border line anyway, drop support
For a site which is looking to support as wide a range of users as
possible, it looks like IE5.5 should still be supported (if the
target audience is as wide as the BBC's) - although James' statistics
did show what appears to be a base line of IE5.x users - while IE5.0
should be dropped (in a graded way). I really like how the BBC does
it's browser support - very nice work!
Thank you very much to everyone for sharing this data - it really is
very interesting. And I second the request for the BBC to publish
this data (just as it is below), which would be a really good guide
for what range of browsers the average person uses.
Many thanks
Allan
On 26 Mar 2007, at 12:15, Kim Plowright wrote:
Just for fun: the february data reworked to show the different
flavours
of IE at their appropriate % point. There's not much difference
between
Safari (all versions) and IE5.5 share. Again, I can't break out the
different flavours of FF and Safari. Bear in mind this is % of PIs,
not
of users, so heavy consumption would skew these shares, and I'm
willing
to bet that FF users eat more internets than IE 6 / 7 users, on
average.
Browser % share of PIs
IE 6.0 48.29
IE 7.0 25.15
Mozilla-Firefox 11.59
Unidentified 5.17
Safari 2.87
IE 5.5 2.55
Cable 1.5
Netscape 0.95
IE 5.0 0.50
Opera 0.37
IE 4.0 0.29
Pocket_PC 0.28
KDDI-EZweb 0.28
IE 5.2 0.08
IE 5.1 0.05
AOL 0.05
Lynx 0.02
IE 3.0 0.01
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