How many of your users still use IE6?

I haven't checked my visitor's browser stats in a while until today...

One of my larger sites has almost 15% of total visitors using IE6.

Out of the IE users only, 35% use IE 6; 22% use IE 7; and 41% use IE 8...The other 1% or so use IE 5.5.

I am astounded that 36% of my IE users still use an atrocious, unsupported, out-of-date product!!

What IE version are your visitors using?

 

stats from site with 90mil pageviews/m non-english :
all IE users ~ 70% from here IE6 users - 20%

stats from site with 19mil pageviews/m english based:
all IE users ~ 45% from them ~ 10 % IE6 users

conclusion : english people dont like IE in general and IE6 in particular.

 

From my website statistics, i can see that a vast majority of my website visitors are using Google Chrome & Firefox.

The rest are Opera and IE 8.

I am glad that there is only 3% of visitors only using IE 6.

Regards,
M1chael

 

non-English telecom website with over 400k views / month: 9.5% of total visitors still use IE 6.

That is a lot! Can't think of one good reason to stick to that old piece of sh1t...

 

I will give you one, people dont care what browser they use. and use what ever is default.

 

Thanks for your input everyone...

I wonder if it has something to do with location??

My visitors from places like Indonesia, Philippines and South Asia seem to have more users using older IE versions. Whereas, most of my Australian users seem to have IE 8.

Anyone else seeing that?

 

yep, same here, users from china use IE6 even more, like 40% of all.

My guess is, it has something to do with numbers of illegal versions of XP in the region.
Since, cracked version of XP would not run windows update, hence, explorer will not be updated to 8....
and we all know who is mother of all fakes

 

Ahh yes... I think you are spot on with that one!

If anyone wants to help with the Kill IE6 campaign, here is some code for you: http://www.ie6nomore.com/code-samples.html

 

some bots may impersonate IE6
I use IE6 on older laptop though

 

Do you IE6 because your OS is not compatible with a higher version? I think this could be a major reason that people don't/can't upgrade.

 

I ain't complainin'.

Imagine if everyone used firefox+adblock.

 

nope, but I found that IE7 runs much slower (needs more memory/CPU)

 

Very true!! Fortunately not everyone is onto that one yet.... Although I have seen scripts around that try to stop the Adblock functionality. Never tried one myself, but could be an option...Anyone tried that?

 

Most of users don't think which browser and version they are using. I think only seo webmaster mostly use latest version of IE and firefox. Only thing we have to take care that our site properly run in all browsers and all version of browsers.

 

I disagree. Most users do think about their browser and that is why firefox and chrome are fast gaining popularity. They will not always be considering the same factors as web professionals however.

 

Will that even work you know what i mean IE is so slow and old and bulky the microsoft, msn, and other sites that links a placed as bookmarks don't work property.

 

17.49% of my visitors use IE... according to Google Analytics. It doesn't mention the version.

 

still IE6 is in use by the many biggest IT companies, they have not rejected it yet. But yes IE8 in progress to be adoped very soon it is testing in many big organizations.

 

in one of my indian news blog, 45% visitors use IE6, Honestly that sucks!

 

If you click on the internet explorer link it should give you the breakdown of versions.

That surprises me...Of all organisations I would think that IT companies would drop IE6 asap. Where did you hear that?