Time to forget about old browsers

One other observation I made while going through all of our statistics for our websites, is the absense of old browsers. No-one has not been targeting Netscape 4 for the past few years, but even a year ago statistics did show – depending on the target group of course – that old browsers accounted for 1-5 % of all traffic to the sites we’ve built.

But now in most cases there really is no precense at all from old browsers. In most campaigns we get about 50.000 visits, and it’s great look at the stats and find only a very small number of users using old browsers (usually less than 10 hits came from NS4 or IE4, and half of that came from our internal tests). We even had one campaign with 25.000 unique visitors, and not a single old browser, wohoo!

So if a clients still asks to develop for NS4, I have some great material to convince them to rethink their view.

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  Cort October 2, 2005 at 17:45

  Hi
  I’m curious what you get for IE Mac. I have an educational resource that seems to get about 30% from it, but these are mostly schools.
  I’d like to know what the normal website figures are like for it and have not been able to get any good statistics.
  I’d greatly appreciate it if you were able to check that out.
  Thanks,
  -Cort

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  Tuomas Artman October 2, 2005 at 20:08

  Hi Cort,
  The figures I’m taking about are mostly for Finland only, our global campaigns have not reached so many visitors as to make them reliable. In Finland Macs are mostly used professionally, advertising agencies acounting for most Macs, so the stats look very depressing there, usually well under 2 % mac users. Within the mac user group we see about 80% going with Safari, most of the rest use IE5. But again, thats Finland…

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