Here’s the browser breakdown of visitors to the 37signals Launchpad, our global sign-in screen for our web apps. This also includes product-specific sign-in screens like this Basecamp sign-in screen or this Highrise sign-in screen. These stats were pulled from Google Analytics and they represent the past 30 days.
Impressive showing by Chrome.
James
on 17 Jun 10This does not come as not surprise as chrome has quickly become my browser of choice.
Frankie Laguna
on 17 Jun 10I wonder how IE breaks down to the different versions.
JF
on 17 Jun 10Out of the 21.4% of total IE visitors:
IE 8 is 70% IE 7 is 27% IE 6 is 3%
Denny Deaton
on 17 Jun 10It’s SO good to see IE moving it’s way down that list. That’s quite a difference over 5 years ago, then again I’d think your market would be smarter than that to begin with, choosing a better browser. Corporate America seems to still be the hotbed for IE usage.
Joshua Pinter
on 17 Jun 10You are so lucky to have a ‘with-it’ crowd. Our industry is almost 90% IE. And that’s IE 6, no less.
Curious, how does Firefox breakdown? 2, 3, etc.
Wesley Verhoeve
on 17 Jun 10Would Chromium be bunched in with Chrome here, or is its use so minuscule that it doesn’t rank?
JF
on 17 Jun 10You are so lucky to have a ‘with-it’ crowd. Our industry is almost 90% IE. And that’s IE 6 , no less.
I wouldn’t chalk it up to luck. We were one of the first to phase out IE 6 support (in 2008). When you make the call and start moving people to more modern browsers earlier, you’re always going to be ahead of the curve.
It can be a tough call to inflict some early pain for some, but in the end it’s the right call for the majority of your customer base.
There were lots of people who said they just couldn’t switch, but they did end up making the switch and they’re in a much better position on every website they use because they upgraded their browser.
Scott
on 17 Jun 10Not supporting IE 6 means you can’t really extend the stats to mean anything beyond this site.
Donny
on 17 Jun 10Thanks for posting. It’s interesting how different your stats are from ours, probably reflecting the different age and technical sophistication of the user bases. It gives me hope that one day we could have only 1 out of 5 using IE!
Mike
on 17 Jun 10Out of sheer curiosity, do you have a breakdown of Safari users using Mac v. PC? I’ve always wondered about the Safari penetration into PCs.
JF
on 17 Jun 10Mike: Safari for Windows is very close to 0%.
Joshua Pinter
on 17 Jun 10You’re right, not luck by any means. Just making the right moves.
We’ve just breaking our way into the oil and gas sector with our web app and it’s hard enough getting them to be comfortable with “web-app”, let alone upgraded browsers. So we had to bite the bullet for the time being.
Once we get some pull I’m planning a rebellion from the inside.
Thanks for posting.
Deltaplan
on 18 Jun 10The fact that you dropped IE6 support is clearly the main cause for the very low IE stats. Most people who HAVE to use IE6 (because their company mandates it) will have less trouble switching to another browser like Firefox or Chrome, than to try to convince their company to upgrade to IE7 or 8…
A different thing happens all the time with (crappy) websites that only work on IE… They see a huge % of IE users on their stats, because most people will specifically use IE on that particular website, even if they are used to using another browser for all other sites… On the contrary, I don’t see people who HAVE to use another browser than IE on some websites going back to IE on all other sites…
Ste Grainer
on 18 Jun 10I see other mobile browsers like Blackberry and Opera Mini so does that mean Mobile Safari is lumped in with Safari? If so, what’s the breakdown between the two? (And does it differentiate between iPod/iPhone/iPad versions?)
Dan H
on 18 Jun 10I’m one of those Chrome users on your Launchpad stats, but not a “Chrome user”. I find that it’s easy to put my email, calendar, tasks, and 37apps in Chrome while my primary browser (for browsing) is Safari. I never really liked Fluid, so Chrome kind of took its place for me.
Barringtonarch
on 20 Jun 10Go chrome! I’d say the type of people that use 37 signals products would normally be early adopters, so probably helps explain the high stat.
Jim Jeffers
on 22 Jun 10What’s awesome here is over 50% of your traffic is from webkit browsers. I’m more impressed that the safari presence is on par with chrome. Wasn’t expecting that!
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