After a conversation yesterday about browser compatibility, I decided to dive into Analytics and see how many visitors to my most popular website, GoCashiers.com (a guide to Cashiers, NC) are using IE6 and other browsers. Here’s the data from the lasts 60 days.
| IE6 | IE7 | IE8 | Total IE | Firefox | Safari | Chrome | Total | |
| 60 days | 145 | 343 | 597 | 1085 | 381 | 258 | 96 | 1832 |
| %IE | 13.4% | 31.6% | 55.0% | 100.0% | ||||
| %TO | 7.9% | 18.7% | 32.6% | 59.2% | 20.8% | 14.1% | 5.2% | 100.0% |
That was two months worth of visits and 1832 samples. I checked the approximate percentage of IE6 users on some of my other sites to see if there were any vast differences, but it was just about 10% across the board.
I did this same bit of number crunching and IE6 sniffing about a year-and-a-half ago. Back then, IE6 users made up about 1 in 5 visitors. I’m happy to report it appears that half of IE6 users have either died, upgraded or stopped using computers entirely because of their utter frustration with IE6. Kudos to them.
I’d be interested if anyone else out there has any recent data to confirm or dispute my findings.