We always try to design things so they are cross browser compatible and that things work and look the same for all user no matter what version or operating system they are using.

We encountered a problem recently with a site not rendering correctly in IE6.0 – of course our dev guys fixed this right up but this inspired me to get some stats on just what browsers folks were using on our clients web sites. I took a peak at the analytics for this across a range of our clients that have significant traffic volumes (in excess of 1M visit per month) and a varied demographic user base across a range of industry sectors (Fashion, Retail and Transport) to make these stats work as ‘real’ averages.

It made interesting reading and I thought you might like to see the results.

Based on this data we have decided to rule out IE5.5 from any design/dev decisions going forwards. Sorry to any of you still using this, but there just aren’t enough of you out there to warrant the additional tests.