@Christie: It is true that Yahoo's stats cannot be extrapolated to the whole Internet. Unfortunately it appears that these are the only stats available. Javascript can considerably improve the aesthetics, usability and semantics of a site, so it would be a pity if one disables it just to avoid the odd bad apple. I never had to disable Javascript because good content is found on well-designed sites. The sites with the ugly Javascript are the ones that I wouldn't visit more than once, with or without Javascript.
~Chetan On Sat, Dec 4, 2010 at 1:03 AM, Christie Mason <cma...@managersforum.com> wrote: > From: Chetan Crasta "About 1% of Yahoo's visitors had Javascript disabled > (2% for Yahoo USA) " > > [-CM-] % of Yahoo visitors disabling js canNOT be used to extrapolate % of > all web users disabling js. I haven't visited Yahoo in years and I'm sure > that's true of a large % of web users. I also suspect that the type of > visitor who would disable js is not the type of visitor that is attracted to > Yahoo. Then there's information buried in the comments at > http://developer.yahoo.com/blogs/ydn/posts/2010/10/how-many-users-have-javas > cript-disabled/ that Yahoo redirects mobile users to a different page, so > that also skews the results. Within my group of contacts, about 30% block > JavaScript all the time, probably another 10%+ block js some of the time. > > You'd have to dig into what % of your target market is also Yahoo visitors > and only if that is a large percentage should Yahoo visitors be used an > indicator for % of your site's visitors will have js disabled. Web > visitors are not homogeneous. > > But that's not all you should consider. Nothing on the web stays the same. > All it will take is another widespread js security problem then % of > visitors disabling js would increase. Or maybe another popular mobile > device will ship with js disabled as default, or a browser with js disabled > as a default, or who knows? > > Christie Mason > > ______________________________________________________________________ > css-discuss [cs...@lists.css-discuss.org] > http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d > List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ > List policies -- http://css-discuss.org/policies.html > Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/ > ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [cs...@lists.css-discuss.org] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ List policies -- http://css-discuss.org/policies.html Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
