IE users on Tempo have been dropping off
Like most web programmers out there, we’ve wasted spent some “kwality” time trying to get our page layouts for Tempo to work and look good in Internet Explorer 7 (we don’t support IE6). The advent of IE8 has made this a bit easier by providing a compatibility mode for going back and forth, helping us to identify needed fixes for our ie7.css file.
As we delayed another over-due set of updates in order to fix some IE issues, I started to wonder what percentage of our users actually use IE, and if that percentage justifies spending all this time. According to Google Analytics, only 10.25% of our visitors (which is a larger group than our active subscribers) in the last two months were using some form of Internet Explorer.
Ten-odd percent of our users certainly warrants us taking the time, but it’s still a surprising metric. Furthermore, it’s down 1% from July of 2008 when IE clocked in at 11.28% of our users, despite the fact that our traffic and active users have climbed substantially from that period. I’m not sure if this indicates a preference on the part of our customers and our would-be customers, or if it means we haven’t provided IE users with the kind of interface they really want.
That said, we’ve been hard at work on a number of adjustments to Tempo’s interface to tidy things up, and many of these adjustments specifically address some display issues in IE7. We’re working on it, dear customers!
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