As someone who has struggled with cross browser issues and wasted many hours, days even, on getting things to work in IE, I’ve joined the campaign to encourage people to upgrade. Specifically, to upgrade from IE6, which really does need taking out round the back and shooting; it’s for its own good. I’ve added a subtle push to remind people to upgrade.

I recently added Google Analytics to my blog and to my main site, never really having bothered with traffic information before; I don’t get that much traffic for it to be interesting. But, having added it, I noticed around 24% of my traffic was IE6, which seems high given the market I’m in: Web development, Standards, CSS, etc. I’ve only been tracking this for a few weeks, so statistically it’s not a great sample, but interesting none-the-less.

So a couple of custom reports brought up these figures for the IE6 users.

Continents:

• USA, 37%
• Asia, 34%
• Europe, 19%
• Africa, 5%
• Oceana, 3%

Operating Systems:

• XP, 90%
• Server 2003, 7%
• Windows 2000, 2%
• Windows 98, 0.3%

So, to all you IE6 users, leave a comment as to why you’re still using it? Lazyness? Corporate policy? To spite me?