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On Monday 11 June 2007 00:07, James Fidell wrote: > Out of interest (and for comparison), I checked the recent webstats for > a client who has a website used mostly by "IT professionals" getting > around five million hits a month. > > For that site, it appears that around 75% of the hits are from browsers > claiming to be some version of IE, with no more than 15% being from > Firefox. The next largest two are the Google and Yahoo search engines. > > I have a client with a much broader spread of visitors and probably > around forty or fifty million hits per month that might be interesting > to see stats from, but we don't generate them. I can't decide whether > I'd expect to see a larger or smaller percentage of firefox users for > that. I suspect the latter. > > James I think we can break down browser usage 4 ways: 1) People who want to design web sites and do it properly and learn about what they are doing and how to do it and these people tend to use Firefox and the development addons and go to w3c for information 2) Users who have some awareness of issues and use Firefox for their browsing as a result. 3) Users who just use microsoft IE cos it came on their PC 4) People who want to make money out of web design but dont give two hoots about doing it right and like the M$ idea of lockins and produce web sites using all sorts of tools so the customer lives in terror of the though of loosing their designer..... They use IE to look at the result and think web standards are probably flags... Tom te tom te tom -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html