I'm not at liberty to share our GA data right now, but we see it for IE 6 especially. IE 6 is about 5% of our total traffic and it looks like the vast majority are people at work.
One site I'm aware of asked a somewhat different question. They mapped the browsers of the visitors that were buying and how much each bought, and found a completely different answer.
Though the site saw a higher percentage of IE than what was discussed here, the data showed the IE users weren't their customers. FF, Opera, Chrome and Safari all bought more and bought bigger than IE.
So only 2.5% are forced to use IE (drops around 50% during the weekend). The other 2.5% are users who will upgrade when they can't play farmville anymore.
Took a closer look at the numbers. In general our traffic goes down by about 20% on the weekend. For IE6 it goes down by 63% on the weekend. For IE as a whole it goes down by 30% on the weekend.
Or it could be that there's a lot of not-very computer/Internet savvy people using the application during the week, and that their browser of choice is IE.
My website (whirlpool.net.au) sees IE6 account for 2.3% of traffic on weekdays and 0.9% on weekends.
Combining all versions of internet explorer together, the figures are 28% and 23%, respectively.
The only browser with a greater-than-expected boost on the weekend is Safari, but only by a very small margin compared to the increase seen by Firefox and Chrome.
Track.com gets 33% IE, only 13% of which is 6.0 (so about 4% total), 22% 7.0, 64% 8.0, and just under 1% 9.0. And most of our customers are financial institutions, who I wouldn't expect to be on the cutting edge.
We actually get more people using Opera Mini (presumably Blackberry users) than we do IE6 users.
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One site I'm aware of asked a somewhat different question. They mapped the browsers of the visitors that were buying and how much each bought, and found a completely different answer.
Though the site saw a higher percentage of IE than what was discussed here, the data showed the IE users weren't their customers. FF, Opera, Chrome and Safari all bought more and bought bigger than IE.
In reality they will properly just have to do without the rounded borders, gradients, and nice picture frames that requires working css.
Combining all versions of internet explorer together, the figures are 28% and 23%, respectively.
The only browser with a greater-than-expected boost on the weekend is Safari, but only by a very small margin compared to the increase seen by Firefox and Chrome.
All figures from GA.
We actually get more people using Opera Mini (presumably Blackberry users) than we do IE6 users.