A webmaster will be interested to know these factors
- who is going to visit his website next time ?
- which operating system will be used ?
- what browser will the visitor use ?
- what screen resolution is the visitor comfortable at ?
Nothing is more valuable than the statistics you’ve collected with an analytics tool installed on your web-site to find out the answers for the above questions; however, particularly in the beginning of a new project it’s nice to have some good idea of what kind of configuration your visitors will probably use.
From Recent studies, these are the statistics that show the average profile of a visitor.
- An average web users browses with Internet Explorer 6.0 that is about 46.1% use I.E 6.0, 20.2% use I.E 7.0 and about 18.5% use Firefox 2.0. Anyways, the general rule still stays. Design for the most modern browsers and then make it compatible for older browsers…
- The most used screen resolution is 1024*768 that is up to 50% users use 1024*768 screen resolution and about 17.2% use 1280*1240 screen resolution.
- The most popular OS used by 79.8% users is Windows XP, windows vista is used by 7.4% of visitors and about 3.4% users use Mac Os.
- Only 50% maximise their browser windows
- Many bloggers use traffic analysis tools like google analytics, ET tracker.
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