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Yes, for many sites with a technical audience. But for sites with an older, less technically sophisticated userbase, IE still has the vast majority over other browsers.

I hear what you're saying about the widget. But is that downloads? In which case: selection bias. What do the stats look like as far as impressions go on the non-techy sites?




For a car site I run I get the following IE usage over the last couple of years (monthly visits in the 5K range):

apr 2007 71.8% oct 2007 74.5% apr 2008 72.0% oct 2008 67.1% apr 2009 67.6% oct 2009 65.6% apr 2010 58.5% oct 2010 61.2%

That's still a considerable majority of IE users.


Here are stats for the University I work at. It's still not a representative sample but does show a different picture.

(Current Period):

  IE      35.01%
  Firefox 33.32%
  Safari  15.68%
  Chrome  14.56%
(Current Period - 1 Year):

  IE      40.61%
  Firefox 38.79%
  Safari  12.92%
  Chrome  4.93%


What country? I suspect figures in Europe are very different from those in the US. European versions of Windows are now required to offer a selection of browsers at install time.


US


Pretty high Safari usage there. I'm guessing macs are extremely common at the University?


Probably more so than in the "real world".

FWIW, our usage stats on OSX break down to about 2/3 using Safari and 1/3 using Firefox.


You're not trying to say that academia is an imaginary world, are you?


No, but I think it's safe to say that it's off the mean in many areas.


Those stats combine main client (chat.mibbit.com) with our widget, split roughly 50/50. The widget is used on various websites, gaming, stock trading, dating, etc etc

Sure, it's still probably going to be slightly more tech, but I'm guessing there's quite a few other webapps who have similar demographic.

It also depends on how 'global' you are. IE usage varies wildly by country.




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