ie7 penetration statistics
It’s been 3 months since the release (via automatic updates) of Internet Explorer 7 (IE7). 21% of visitors to our client sites are using the new browser version.
It is a slow take up in my mind. Clearly lots of people have automatic updates turned off. The recent release of vista will improve the take up. If you are a developer, be prepared to program for both IE6 and IE7 for some time to come.
General penetration statistics:
- IE6 61%
- IE7 21%
- Firefox 11%
- Safari 4%
- Netscape 1%
- Opera 0.5%
- Other (Mozilla, Camino etc) 1.5%
Note: these statistics are based on website traffic to several highly trafficked commercial / retail sites
thank you for these stats. it’s a shame how slow the roll out is going, especially since ie6 is such garbage!
IE7 is garbage too. If MS put out something that was actually standards compliant, people would use it.
[...] It’s now been 12 months since the release (via automatic updates) of Internet Explorer 7 (IE7). 79% of visitors to our client sites are using an Internet Explorer browser (a reduction of 3% from when last we posted stats 9 months ago). Firefox achieved a 14% penetration. Browser penetration breakdown across Fatpublisher client sites: [...]
What about now? Has there been a change? And what about screen size, and how is that measurement taken? Is it screen size or window size? To spite having 1650 across, i still tend to view web pages at about 1000 across.
@jason To answer your questions, I pulled out some stats today for a ‘very popular general public’ website.
According to the stats, usage by browser version is approximated as :
IE7 49.0%
IE6 17.5%
FF3 17.0%
SF3 7.0%
FF2 3.0%
Chrome: 1.0% (emerging)
With regards to resolution, the statistics posted are based on screen resolution, not window size. The latest breakdown of screen resolution is shown below.