Re: Some stats on browsers in use

On Tue, 19 Dec 2000, Charles McCathieNevile wrote:

  Remember, there are lies, damned lies, and statistics (and proxies). But this
  might be a useful way to get a "feel" for what is out there.

  Charles

Some other stats forwarded from WAI-IG

From Jamie.Mackay@cultureandheritage.govt.nz Tue Dec 19 11:50:53 2000
Cc: w3c-wai-ig@w3.org

Here are some stats for December from a New Zealand history site I manage :

IE - 69.47%
NN - 14.64

Out of the NN users:
83.57% use vers 4x
7.76% use vers 3x

To put this in perspective, out of the 7,603 total visitor sessions for
December, 90 were by people using NN3x browsers.

Out of the IE users:
83.57% use 5x
15.72% use 4x
0.54% use 3x (43 visitor sessions)
0.14% use 2x (28 visitor sessions)

Not sure that this tells people anything other than the numbers still using
vers 3x browsers are very small, I would have thought it was extremely
unlikely that any organisation would still be insisting its employees use
NN3x as an internet browser (perhaps for intranet though).

Personally I always design pages so that the content is obtainable without
style sheets, not by defining fonts but simply letting the user's default
font do the work - it might not look quite as pretty but it is all there.
(If they want pretty they are going to be limited in their options with NN3
anyway).

Jamie Mackay

Received on Tuesday, 19 December 2000 11:52:25 UTC