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Comment by crikli | Hacker News Reader

I don't buy it.

My company manages a number of websites; the site with the most homogenous use across all demographics shows IE at 80% usage.

Here's a shot from the last couple of days: http://a.yfrog.com/img614/5741/ls8.png

Edit: IE usage breakdown: http://a.yfrog.com/img612/6052/f2yf.png

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It's natural for many people here to think whatever they are doing must be what everyone else is doing, but the average Internet user does not have a MacBook Pro running Chrome. And the ones that spend the most money on the Internet certainly can't be pigeonholed that way.

Recently I worked with a high-fashion site in New York that you'd think must get most of their web hits from iPads and modern browsers, but no. More than half their traffic and sales came from IE6/7/8 users browsing the site from a corporate PC during their lunch hour.

Wikipedia shows IE at only 35% of it's current traffic, and they are a top 10 site.

http://stats.wikimedia.org/wikimedia/squids/SquidReportClien...

It would be interesting to know the story behind some of those stats - I wonder why those people are using FF1.0? (or indeed if, perhaps that's just the UA string they set).

Is your site homogeneous across all demographics across the world?

Because IE share in the US is higher than its share worldwide. The article is about worldwide share.

US, certainly. I should have established the context.

That sounds high. Most sites I've seen have been in the 30-50% range. I have a tech oriented site that has less than 5%.

That's interesting; we run a range of sites from law firms to a VOIP switch producer to a big hospital system. IE usage ranges from 60-85%. Oddly enough the VOIP switch producer has the highest IE utilization, but we did a bunch of analysis and basically they have a lot of vendors and clients using PCs that are locked into using IE.

I work for an e-commerce company and our breakdown with 200,000 unique visitors a month is 54% IE, 19.22% Safari, and 14.36% Firefox, and 8% Chrome.

IE 6 is < 1% and IE 7 is < 5%.

Agreed. Our (mostly non-tech industry) audience shows a similar browser breakdown.

Usage varies wildly according to demographics. The largest site I manage has IE at 44%, and it's a quite "non-technologist" market. My blog has IE at 1%, tied with Android, and a webapp is at 81% Chrome.

This has everything to do with the audience of a particular site.

Our small business portfolio websites see an IE share of above 75%.

Our "Web 2.0" web-app sites see shares as low as 9%.

In case anyone is interested. In japan (young people): http://i.imgur.com/HQVwv.jpg

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