Over 30% of Your Site Visitors Are Not Using MSIE
I was just going through some of my website statistics and was surprised to find that over 30 percent of visitors are now using a browser other than Microsoft Internet Explorer. This is a very large increase in the past year and it is important that website owners and webmasters understand that websites do not display the same in all browsers.
If you design your website (especially if you use a Microsoft product to do so) and never check to see how it displays in some of the more popular non-Microsoft browsers like Firefox and Netscape you may be interested to know that your website may look horrible to 30% of your website visitors. In some cases it looks so bad that visitors will leave immediately.
It is probably not a good idea to be turning off a rapidly increasing number of website visitors!
If you only check your site in one other browser -I would suggest you do so in Firefox which is available for free at http://www.mozilla.org/. Firefox and Netscape display pretty much the same as far as I can tell and those two browser's make up the lion's share of MSIE's competition.
posted by Doug Towes @ Saturday, October 01, 2005
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I appreciate the info. The problem is with alimit to my atmospheric budget I have to do what I can to appeal to as many people as possible. Some of the companies I deal with don't or won't support the other two browsers for similar reasons. Unless you can tell me a way to get regional demographic info on buyers and sellers. This would allow me to figure out which browser to configure to but in the mean time it seems like the numbers are on the side of using explorer. btw I'd love an opinion of my two blogs. One is networking centered and the other is client centered.
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My website is http://www.teamjohnston.com btw I'm new to this blogging thing is it Kosher to ask or give my addresses thanks.
I don't have a problem with doing the check thing. I use both IE and Firefox to check after I make changes or create a new page. You are correct about this because I don't always code to the standards so I have to check. I usually code using the IE and check using Firefox. I use Firefox to browse the web because of the added safety.
Good information...Thank you.
I had no idea Firefox was growing so fast. I've been using it for a year or so and love it. Even my bank and stock brokerage are now allowing for Firefox.
I'm blogrolling your site for future referance.
Thanks
Frank
http://franklyrealestate.blogspot.com
Everyone except our MLS.. MLSPIN is acting like an ostrich on this one. They don't wanna bother with Firefox, I guess..
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