Browser stats

For a while now, I've been talking about how IE6 is not needed support, and that IE7 is also useless.

Unfortunately, I was wrong. I've spent a bit of time doing some research on this, mainly through 2 sites. First up was w3schools.

As you can see, Firefox was unsurprisingly the top browser for visitors to the site. It's bleeding market share, probably to Chrome and Safari at a guess. Since this post is based on the fact I was wrong with an earlier guess ... take that with a grain of salt. Chrome and Safari are both increasing, something which I'm sure I've contributed to. But IE7 is still the top IE browser?? I didn't see that coming, especially on what is a 'tech' site. And 12% of all visitors STILL use IE6??? No wonder you need help with programming ....

Next, I went to statcounter. You need to dig down to find information, as the first page is pretty simple. What it does do, though, is show that IE6 and IE7 are not dying any time soon. Windows 7 may change that, but personally I doubt it. 

My favourite stat though, was mobile OS. The iphone is not number 1, which isn't too surprising when you know how many 'smart' phones there are out there running rival OSs. 

Anyway, the moral of the story is a) Aussie IE8 users will overtake IE7 this month and b) You still need to provide support for IE6 and IE7. For the rest of 2009 anyway. We'll see what the new year brings!