Browser Statistics

I just finished to read an article from Alex Homer on ASPtoday about browsers, caching and different things.

I was quite curious about his assumption that less and less IE 4 is used. He mention an internal Wrox statistics, but as many, I like to have my own opinion forged on different sources.

So I started to search through this irreplaceable Google, and I found different links.

One which look reliable is W3schools, and it appears that Alex is right. IE 4 goes from 4% one year ago to a mere 1% now.

According to this table IE6 jump from 23% to 52% and IE5 goes down as expected from 64% to 39%.

Netscape 4 from 4% to 1%, but no mention of Netscape 6 or 7 !

Maybe they are part of what they call the 0.5 % level ;-)

Another good surprise is on the Screen resolution. It's true that stats are not perfect, but it's a good news to know that finally users move a 800*600 screen size to a more useful 1024*768 (well for the developers !).

Sadly, I know some people in my entourage still resisting the jump. When you build an Intranet, it's areally a great comfort ! I am myself working on a Dell Laptop at 1600*1200 and my eyesight is still ok !
I am probably part of the Other and Unknown 5% in their stats !
Well this is quite big for me, it's almost the size of a political party ;-)

Good news also to see that 640*480 size represent now only 2%.

But I keep the BIGGEST surprise for the end : Javascript turned OFF by 10 % ! Yes 10%, that's huge !
If it's really true, that's mean I'm going to do more server side job, but whatever .Net need a bit of client side.

It would be interesting to have some crosstable stats, like who use IE 6 and turned off Javascript, just for the fun ;-)

Just to finish I like to repeat one of their quotes :