Everyone once in a while, I think it’s useful to take a look at the browser usage of your sites. You can see what the overall industry trends with a little googling (I like this page), and that’s important to know, but it’s also good to know if your users follow those trends. In the spirit of sharing, I thought I’d throw up a few quick graphs using the numbers from the main Knowledge@Wharton site. I basically just took the number our of Google Analytics for the month of February.
For the developers that have to fight with IE every day, I also thing it’s work breaking down that IE Pie:
My quick hitting thoughts are:
- IE6 is down to <5% of our total browser picture. Thank god.
- IE overall is no longer the majority browser. It’s just the biggest minority, and it’s trending down.
- Chrome as entered the double digits.
Now, a little history. Here’s every month for the past 3 years (Feb 2008 – Feb 2011), which I like to call “Chrome is eating IE”:
