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A few of the more noticeable changes in this week's site design might prompt some questions as to how the Web audience is evolving over time. I thought it would be interesting to take a look at the actual numbers that back up reader's requests and complaints by comparing a snapshot from this week with a snapshot from one year ago. In each time period I pulled out a sample of 10000 visitors. The 75% of you that read this through RSS can go back to wondering why anyone still uses a web browser.

Why have site features that don't work or don't look as good in Internet Explorer?

Browsers 1 year ago (1% or higher share)

  • IE7: 45.6%
  • Firefox 2: 25.9%
  • IE6: 23.3%
  • Opera: 2.5%
  • Mozilla: 1.1%

Browsers this week (1% or higher share)

  • IE7: 47.1%
  • Firefox 3: 25.4%
  • IE6: 12.7%
  • Firefox 2: 11.2%
  • Opera: 1.4%
  • Safari: 1.2%

There's one number that is increasing very quickly and the rest are either flat or declining for the most part. I'll credit Silverlight for bringing in enough readers on Safari to make the cutoff.

Why all of the emphasis on font sizes, content spacing, and other issues for large displays?

Resolution of largest dimension 1 year ago

  • Bigger: 28.8%
  • 1280: 46.6%
  • 1024: 23.5%
  • Smaller: 1.1%

Resolution of largest dimension this week

  • Bigger: 40.9%
  • 1280: 45.3%
  • 1024: 13.1%
  • Smaller: 0.7%

I'm evidently atypical in not having moved to increasingly larger displays over the last few years. It turns out that automatic scaling and device independence is still weak enough that you have to do some fine tuning to work over even the most common variations of scale.

Next time: Web Address Filters

Comments

  • Anonymous
    July 25, 2008
    How do I find the address of a client connection to make a trust decision? Don't base security decisions