| Bill Jonas on Wed, 9 Oct 2002 00:30:04 -0400 |
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On Tue, Oct 08, 2002 at 11:11:12PM -0400, jeff wrote: > Are there reliable stats on text-based browser use? I'd consider redoing > my site if the traffic warranted it. Well, you can look at the Google Zeitgeist, at <http://www.google.com/press/zeitgeist.html>. About one-third to one-half of the way down the page, they have a browser stats box. They break it out via Netscape 4, MSIE 4.0, 5.0, 5.5, 6.0, and lump everything else into "Other". This would, of course, include Netscape 6 and 7, Mozilla, and Opera, as well as your text browsers. It's not clear to me exactly what the height of the lines represents, whether it's raw numbers, percentages, or what. So there's probably very few people that primarily use a text-based browser. Consider this, though: That's pretty much the only way that blind or heavily vision-impaired people, for example, *can* browser the web, via a text browser and text-to-speech software. Some people just *don't* have the option to go run MSIE, NS, Moz, or Opera. Food for thought, anyway. -- Bill Jonas * bill@billjonas.com * http://www.billjonas.com/ "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -- Benjamin Franklin Attachment:
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