Hi All,
I was bored at work today, so I had another quick look at the browser stats on one of our larger sites, and IE6 is progressing towards the grave like a glacier in global warming (so slowly it seems like it's receding). If you remember I stuck up a couple of older threads on this subject, http://forums.hexus.net/operating-sy...tatistics.html and http://forums.hexus.net/operating-sy...ge-1-year.html
Anyway, this time round I only did the one, larger site, but I've included the whole of the "long tail" right down to the obscure minor version numbers that seem to hang around purely to hit our sites once a week.
The good news is that IE6 is down to 23% from 35% last November, the bad news is that still about a quarter of our visitors use IE6, and if we want to extract their money from them, we still have to support the wretched thing.
Things to remember about this site though is that is sells homewares and kitchen tat, so it's going to have a high proportion of housewives and "silver surfers". So I would expect most demographics to be earlier adopters than this lot.
In fact the only demographic I can think of which is likely to have worse uptake of new browsers are the "institutionalised" (big slow corporations and underfunded public agencies) where the browser is decreed from on high (where the air is a bit too thin).


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