RE: Excellent illustration of importance of access stats

I guess even more important than the current numbers is the trend, which is
clearly in the decline for NN.  The future isn't bright, esp. if you're not
a big fan of MS.
Kate Pollara



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Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2001 2:26 PM
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Subject: Excellent illustration of importance of access stats


I just noticed something at www.browserwatch.com. They have two sets of
statistics, one just for the browserwatch domain, and the other for all
of the Internet.com family of web sites.

The numbers for IE (Internet Explorer) and NS (Netscape) vastly differ:

Browserwatch: IE 62.8 % / NS 25.0%
Internet.com: IE 87 % / NS 9.53%

Basically, what those numbers mean to me is that if I was doing most of
the sites for Internet.com, I could almost ignore Netscape users, at
least in terms of looks (NOT delivery of content).

On the other hand, a 25 of just the NS browser percent share on
browserwatch would mean that that the site design would have to be cross
browser, at least for IE and NS.

Given that the ''others'' for the two are 4 percent (internet.com) or 13
percent (browserwatch), then one would have s substantial number (I
define substantial as above 10 percent of the visitor/customer), then
that would also affect design.

Reference: http://browserwatch.internet.com/
	(used to be just www.browserwatch.com)

enjoy the day.
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