Internet Explorer, RIP?
December 22, 2004
If I am reading my web logs correctly, readers visiting my site use Internet Explorer less than 1% of the time. Mozilla is used about 50% of the time, bots seem to take another 12-15%, and a long list of other browsers and newsreaders account for the rest.
Is this possible?
Posted by Bill Trippe at December 22, 2004 10:18 AM
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I suspect it's because your site doesn't work with IE very well. Or you are reading your weblogs incorrectly. Your numbers aren't even close to what most websites get.
Posted by Paul Topping at December 22, 2004 1:04 PMI've been using Firefox's RSS feeds to keep up with blogs and many newspapers. Just locate the orange icon in the lower right corner, and "Subscribe..." This will add a live link to your bookmarks, which you can then copy/move to your links bar, etc.
Happy Holidays
Posted by Ron Gustavson at December 22, 2004 8:00 PMHi, I believe you are reading your logs incorrectly.
IE often identifies as Mozilla Compatible.
For example clicking on the link for your top browser
Mozilla/4.*
You'll see that it's all of this variation:
Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0
Would have been nice, though.
Cheers,
Ben
It's probably related to your target audience. The industry figures are for sites like Yahoo and Google (General Interest) where every Tom, Dick and Harry will go to. I'm willing to bet reference pages on RFCs on SOAP etc will have a more niche clientele who know how to, and would want to, use another browser than IE.
Posted by bastian at January 1, 2005 1:08 PMPost a comment
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Interesting stats, Bill...
Here's some more food for thought: I use Firefox for my browser, but I also use NewsGator in Outlook to read my blogs (yours included, of course!). NewsGator appears to use IE to render blog pages in Outlook, so that may skew the count as well.
Posted by Michael Goff at December 22, 2004 10:47 AM