A lot of the work I do is on Intranet based web applications, in large Corporates with locked down desktops and recommended browsers etc.
Here are some browser statistics collected via an ASP.Net data entry and reporting application that I worked on a while ago, collected from users whom logon regularly. System is global and figures are based on 1017 active users:
| Browser version | User Count | |
|---|---|---|
| IE5 | 1 | |
| IE6 | 973 | |
| IE7 | 33 (up from 18 in 2008) | |
| IE8 | 2 | |
| Firefox 3 | 8 (up from 4 in 2008) |
IE6 is the Corporate standard, so nothing really of interest here ;-)
More interesting I think is window sizes. Here's a sample:
| Viewable window size (width) | User Count | |
|---|---|---|
| less than 800 wide | 23 | |
| 800 exactly | 63 | |
| 801 to 899 | 28 | |
| 900 to 999 | 22 | |
| 1000 to 1099 | 489 | |
| 1100 to 1199 | 35 | |
| 1200 to 1299 | 135 | |
| 1300 to 1399 | 1 | |
| 1400 to 1499 | 52 | |
| 1500+ | 5 |
These figures were captured at logout time (assuming that by then the user would have their browser sized/maximised to their preference for the application). The 800x600ish sizes are still very popular despite this being the bare minimum that this web application is designed for (1024x768+ is recommended). It just shows that we cannot always assume that users are running 1024 or above.
Clarkey
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