Plixo website “design update”, part 2 – Browser Targets

Website Redesign, Which Browsers to Target?

In part 1, Why an updated web design?, we reviewed the rationales behind our decision to go for a design update.

In this part, we describe which platform/OS/browser we will support and test our web site against.

Step 1: Get stats from Google Analytics

We used past 3 months of Google Analytics to get the following statistics on our visitor base.

  1. Operating System:
  2. Browsers:

    Need to go into more details 

    1. Chrome
       

      Very messy and not really useful…

    2. Safari
       

      Quite a range…

    3. Internet Explorer
       

      Definitely useful, still close to 20% of IE users using IE8, guessing corporate computers running XP…

    4. Android Browser
       

      So only 4.x, no need to worry about older versions…

Step 2: Making Sense of it, Threshold selection

Now let’s make more sense of this, using excel and setting some targets

  1. Operating System:
    OS % S%
    Windows 53.9% 53.9%
    iOS 16.9% 70.8%
    Macintosh 15.7% 86.5%
    Android 12.9% 99.5%
    Linux 0.3% 99.7%
    Windows Phone 0.1% 99.9%
    Others 0.2% 100.0%
  2. Browsers:
     

    Browser Version actual % ∑ %
    Safari 7.0.x 17.02% 17.02%
    Chrome 36.x 16.96% 33.98%
    Chrome 37.x 13.53% 47.52%
    Chrome 35.x 7.17% 54.69%
    IE 11.0 6.14% 60.83%
    IE 9.0 3.66% 64.49%
    Android 4.x 3.04% 67.53%
    IE 8.0 2.89% 70.41%
    Chrome 1.5 2.40% 72.82%
    IE 10.0 1.68% 74.50%
    Safari 5.1.x 1.00% 75.50%
    Safari 8.0 0.85% 76.35%
    Safari 6.0 0.84% 77.20%
    Opera 0.51% 77.71%
    IE 7.0 0.38% 78.09%
    IE 6.0 0.04% 78.12%
    in bold the browsers to be used for full testing

Next Part: Choosing targeted screen resolutions

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