Here are the numbers for DrunkenFist.com in the year 2009. There were 614,333 visits to that domain last year and the top browsers broke down like this:
| Browser | # of Visits | % of Visits |
|---|---|---|
| Firefox | 342429 | 55% |
| Internet Explorer | 162977 | 26% |
| Chrome | 35801 | 5.8% |
| Safari | 33545 | 5.4% |
| Opera | 22826 | 3.7% |
The full year detail on Internet Explorer looks like this:
| IE Version | # of Visits | % of Visits |
|---|---|---|
| 7.0 | 99,382 | 60.98% |
| 6.0 | 36,536 | 22.42% |
| 8.0 | 26,698 | 16.38% |
As you can see IE6 is down to the Chrome/Safari level. Still something to support, since it accounts for more than 30,000 visits, but nearing the level where I’m totally comforatable with letting the thing die a quiet death. Since that’s the plan for DrunkenFist.com, version 3.0, the timing couldn’t be better.
Looking at the number for just December, the view looks even brighter. The top browser report shows killer numbers
| Browser | # of Visits | % of Visits |
|---|---|---|
| Firefox | 30207 | 57% |
| Internet E | 10770 | 20% |
| Chrome | 5331 | 10% |
| Safari | 3169 | 6% |
| Opera | 2259 | 4% |
and the IE report also tells a good story:
| IE Version | # of Visits | % of Visits |
|---|---|---|
| 7 | 5040 | 46% |
| 8 | 4025 | 37% |
| 6 | 1684 | 15% |
Chrome is over 10% and Internet Explorer 6 is trailing everything worthwhile? I’ll take that. Die IE6, die. I’d rather IE8 be the dominant Internet Explorer version, but other than that I love my users.
Actually, I always loved my users, but I love them even more now.
Clearly, this story isn’t universal. The folks that visit DrunkenFist.com are almost all young and the ones that aren’t are really geeky, so they all skew net savvy.
Maybe this is what the overall net will look like in a few years as these kids grow up? We can dream, right?
Rock on! I can’t tell you how sick we all are of IE6. Google announced they are no longer supporting it as of next month (March 2010). Great presentation about HTML5 & CSS3 at Wordcamp by the way.
I saw that google news. Every bit helps.
Re: the presentation, thanks! It was a ton of fun. WordCamp was a great event.