I always like to remind my brethren online that everything web professionals say should be taken with a grain of salt (yes, myself included).
Here’s one more example:
Every time I notice someone send me a screen grab, I see they are on Mozilla. You would think 80% of the world’s users were on Mozilla, though in actuality, Mozilla’s numbers are 100M users worldwide, and given a global web user audience of 772M (comScore), that means that 1/7.72 or 13% of the world’s web users are in fact on Mozilla. Considering how badly MSFT pulverzied Netscape’s Navigator to grow to a 95%+ reach at its zenith, that’s not bad at all. I’d say today IE gets 80%, Mozilla gets 13% or so and Safari, Opera, etc., get 7%.
In fact, I think I am one of the few people in our world who still has a tendency to first open IE. I do that, of course, mainly because I want to see what the bulk of WatchMojo.com’s visitors see when they come to the site. Make no mistake about it, while Mozilla’s growth as an alternative browser has been nothing but admirable, it’s reach has yet to crack 20%.
But, my screen grab analogy should serve as a lesson to all: if you pool the web professional user segment, you’d think only 20% were on IE… in other words, whatever nuggets of wisdom and advice bloggers, tech types and web pros pimp out, bear in mind it’s probably not applicable or relevant to the real world out there, that to this day have very different tendencies that the “early adopter” crowd.
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July 14th, 2007 at 11:34 am
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