Thanks for this, Leonard - useful stuff.
The 2% I quoted was not an actual IE figure meant to be taken literally but
meant as you say here as an off the cuff "people whose view of the site
might be seriously compromised" figure...
For information, the core Science Museum website (www.sciencemuseum.org.uk)
shows
IE 6.x 59.05%
IE 5.x 20.37%
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79.24%
Mozilla 2.32%
NN7.x 0.88%
NN4 0.64%
Opera 0.49%
Safari 85.x 0.21%
I'm sure many of you have seen this, but there is an interesting browser
emulator here:
http://www.dejavu.org/emulator.htm
Takes you back...
Mike
-----Original Message-----
From: Leonard Latiff [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 16 June 2004 14:04
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: Launch of www.ingenious.org.uk
I've found these figures for market share of browsers (afraid some are US
based), I've roughly listed them and given the source. It's not 98% but it
is substantial. I also think there's a difference between 'making the site
look the same for as many users as possible' and 'ensuring that as many
users as possible can navigate the site'. I don't think the pictures charts
will be distributed via the newsgroup so feel free to e-mail me on:
[log in to unmask]
and I'd be happy to send them to you. It seems as though the figure is
somewhere between 75% and 95% depending on which figures you go for.
Leonard Latiff
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From Onestat.com
The global usage share of Apple's Safari browser has increased with 0.23
percent from 0.25 to 0.48 percent since July 2003.
The most popular browsers on the web are:
1. Microsoft IE 6.0 68.1%
2. Microsoft IE 5.5 13.8%
3. Microsoft IE 5.0 11.8%
4. Mozilla 1.8%
5. Opera 7.0 0.8%
6. Microsoft IE 4.0 0.7%
7. Safari 0.48%
From Webreview:
Browser % of US Market Share
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Microsoft Internet Explorer (MS IE) 5.x 24.9 %
MS IE 4.x 44.7 %
MS IE 3.x 3.6 %
Netscape 4.x 22.0 %
Netscape 3.x 2.3 %
MS Web TV 1.4 %
Other 1.1 %
From http://www.safalra.com:
Abstract
The market share of web browsers can be estimated based on the user-agent
strings of visitors to popular websites. Statistics from safalra.com suggest
a market share last month of 74% for Internet Explorer based browsers, and
20% for Gecko based browsers.
Results (May 2004)
15% of visits were from crawlers (mostly search engines) - these are not
included in the statistics below.
Market share Browser
74% Internet Explorer based
20% Gecko based
3.5% KHTML based
2.0% Opera
0.16% Lynx
0.091% IBrowse
0.058% AWeb
0.017% Voyager
0.017% w3m
0.017% WebTV
0.0083% iCab
0.0083% Links based
0.0083% Sony Ericsson
And these also, source on picture:
From http://www.e-janco.com:
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