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!
Comment by joe — 28th February 2007 @ 12:26 am
IE7 is garbage too. If MS put out something that was actually standards compliant, people would use it.
Comment by Bob — 10th March 2007 @ 6:18 am
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