What are your current stats for IE6 users?

Hi. I have been looking for stats on IE6 usage on the net, but get some real conflicting figures. Anything from 5% up to 20%

Can anyone tell me what typical percentage of IE6 users they currently get on their live Zen shops.

I am looking to perhaps implement a new template, which isn't too compatible with IE6 but gives more features that I need. I just don't want to exclude too many potential customers though.

I have just changed hosts, so have no historical data to help me out with this. Any input would be great.

Thanks..

Hello -- Anyone?? :blush:

Those stats can be obtained from your CPanel is case anyone wondering where to find that info... :smartalec:

Ours seem to average between 7 and 8 %, but that's probably higher than most, since a lot of our business is B2B, and businesses are more likely to still be using IE6.

Our sites tend to be pretty simple in design, so we don't have a lot of cross-browser issues. When we do, we use IE6 and 7 specific stylesheets, or change the design.

Over half of the visitors use FF.

Around 29% of visitors use IE. Of those,
79% use IE8
12% use IE7
8% use IE6

Thanks Steve and Clyde.

Those figures are extremely helpful to me.

Thanks again, much appreciated.

These are the results for a non-techy site September, the IE figures are way lower than expected in June IE 6 was at almost 6%

MSIE - 	 	71.3 %	 
Msie 9.0 - 	0%	
Msie 8.0 - 	53.3%	
Msie 7.0 - 	15.2%	
Msie 6.0 - 	2.4 %	
Msie 5.5 - 	0%	
Msie 5.01 - 	0%	
Msie 5.0 - 	0%	
Msie 4.01 - 	0%	
Msie 3.02 - 	0%	
Msie 2.0 - 	0%

0% just means theres less than a few thousand hits

IE takes around just over 70%
Ff is about 17%
Safari is 4.5%
Chrome is 3%
Netscape is 0.8
Opera is 0.7% (which is sadly probably mainly me as i have been working on the site)

Thanks for that data Nigel.

I know that IE6 is a dying breed and is no longer being supported by the likes of Google and Facebook etc. The way the stats are rapidly plummeting for it, I can see where they are coming from.

Whilst I never truly understand what they mean, when they talk of IE6 holding back the web and limiting user experiences, I have come across many 'Kill IE6' websites where some folks want it gone with a vengeance.

On the stats I have got so far from you good folks, I guess it won't be long before IE6 is a distant memory. What is real good though, is that virtually all the regular Zen Cart templates work perfectly with IE6 so nobody loses money by presenting a malformed site for shop visitors.

I recently returned to Zen Cart after a twelve month break with exploring other solutions. Now 1.39 sorted out php 5.3 and a few other issues, coming back was the best move I ever made. :smile: