Terence Eden has a Blog » internet explorer http://shkspr.mobi/blog Mobiles, Shakespeare, Politics, Usability. Mon, 06 Feb 2012 16:31:09 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Browser Statistics of 10 Downing Streethttp://shkspr.mobi/blog/index.php/2009/10/browser-statistics-of-10-downing-street/ http://shkspr.mobi/blog/index.php/2009/10/browser-statistics-of-10-downing-street/#comments Fri, 02 Oct 2009 10:58:32 +0000 Terence Eden http://shkspr.mobi/blog/?p=583 [...]]]> It’s really difficult cutting through the hype to see which browsers one should support when designing a website. There are many different measures of popularity – but many sites are only visited by techies, or only ever visited when at work, or are skewed towards the young or the old.

Yesterday morning I asked the Number 10 Downing Street web team if they could provide their statistics. I figured that the PM’s website gets enough readers from a wide selection of the web community to give a fairly impartial measure of the popular web browsers.

Here’s their (very quick) reply

@edent Top are: IE7 22%, IE8 20%, IE6 12%, Firefox3.5.3 9%, FF3.5.2 7%, FF3.0.14 5%, FF3.0.13 4%, Safari 4.0.3 4%, Chrome 2.0.172.43 2%

On 2-10-2009 09:46:44 from web in reply to Terence Eden

Or, to express it graphically…

Chart Showing Browser Stats

Chart Showing Browser Stats

Firefox overall accounts for 25% – a fairly strong showing. But with IE6 stubbornly stuck at 12%, it will be a while before we can consign it to the dustbin of web history.
Opera is languishing in the 15% marked as “Other” along with my browser of choice, Lynx.

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