Gallery: July 4th, 2008
At Maya’s for a July 4th picnic.
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IE6 Independence?
Filed under: Stats | July 4th, 2008
Hot off the news that 37signals is removing support for IE6 in their products I thought it would be interesting to look at the stats from WordPress.com as an update to my previous post just under a year ago. Is it reasonable to drop support for IE6 in a mainstream app?
These stats cover Jan 1 - Jun 30: 787 million “absolute unique” visitors, 1.6 billion visits, and 3.3 billion pageviews. I feel these numbers are large enough and WordPress.com-hosted blogs diverse enough to be fairly representative. All the numbers come from Google Analytics. In parentheses I’ve put the delta from the last time I blogged these stats.
59.41% - Internet Explorer (down 3.05%), sub-breakdown:
53.42% - Version 7.0 (up 18.25%) 46.28% - Version 6.0 (down 17.82%) 0.14% - Version 5.5 (down 0.14%)
32.82% - Firefox (up 2.08%) 4.81% - Safari (up 0.98%) 2.04% - Opera (up 0.26%) 0.41% - Mozilla (down 0.11%)The operating system breakdown:
89.41% - Windows (down 0.95%) 7.86% - Macintosh (up 1.13%) 1.82% - Linux (down 0.37%) 0.17% - iPhone (out of nowhere!) 0.10% - PlayStation Portable (up 0.07%)
So as you can see, IE6 users account for about 27% of all the visits we saw. If I were building something for “the internet” IE6 compatibility would still very much be on my radar. Everyone’s users or customers are different, and if I saw IE6 falling below 10% on one of my sites I’d probably very seriously consider what 37signals is doing.
The good news is most trends are going in the right direction: strong growth of Firefox, IE7, and Macintosh, and the iPhone came out of nowhere to generate 2.6 million visits (and another 1.1 million from the iTouch).
Happy July 4th!
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Unofficial International WordPress Day
Filed under: Asides | July 1st, 2008
Today is Unofficial International WordPress Day. It’s an honor to have such a supportive community, and things like this are very much appreciated. (19)
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WordPress / Yahoo Brickhouse Meetup
Filed under: Asides | June 30th, 2008
If you’re in the San Francisco area join us at the Yahoo! Brickhouse for a WordPress meetup this Wednesday. This’ll actually be my first time at the Brickhouse, but I hear they have some mean Wii players. (2)
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Top Gear on WordPress
Filed under: Asides | June 22nd, 2008
For the Top Gear fans out there, the new Top Gear blog is the latest WordPress.com VIP. Vroom! (26)
Jun
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Star Wars Dance-Off
Filed under: Video | June 22nd, 2008
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The internet has everything.
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Kindle Thoughts
Filed under: Asides | June 20th, 2008
Seth’s Blog: Random thoughts about the Kindle. I agree with most of this. I’ve been meaning to write a Kindle review forever. I’m probably not going to get to it, but I will say that it has fundamentally changed the way I read and buy books. It has also increased my book reading a non-trivial amount. (10)
Jun
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Magento / Wordpress Integration
Filed under: Asides | June 20th, 2008
There’s a new plugin for Magento, an open source ecommerce system, to integrate it with WP. (12)
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2008 Design Trends
Filed under: Asides | June 18th, 2008
2008 Design Trends, a great visual list. (10)
Jun
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Friends Using Typepad?
Filed under: Asides | June 16th, 2008
Michael Krotscheck has an interesting post called Friends don’t let Friends use TypePad, which apparently ruffled some feathers and elicited a pretty venomous response from a Six Apart Vice President. I guess is part of their new plan to “compete” but statements like “TypePad simply blows WordPress.com away on SEO” and “On WordPress.com, you’re kind of moving into a bad neighborhood — by their own admission, one-third of the blogs on WordPress.com are spam” don’t exactly lend credibility. Michael responded eloquently in a comment and then again in a follow-up post. Lloyd has jumped in with some specific facts on Typepad’s (lack of) SEO. In the meantime we just turned on sitemaps for everybody on WordPress.com, a popular user request. (45)
Jun
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Social Networking Sanity Check
Filed under: Asides | June 16th, 2008
Social Networking Gets a Sanity Check, from GigaOM. (2)
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Seth’s Email Checklist
Filed under: Asides | June 15th, 2008
Seth’s Email Checklist. “Before you hit send on that next email, perhaps you should run down this list, just to be sure.” Amen! (9)
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New BuddyPress Theme
Filed under: Asides | June 13th, 2008
A preview of the upcoming theme for BuddyPress. Be sure to click through to the full-size versions. BuddyPress is coming along nicely, and a good example of what is possible with the WordPress platform. (17)
