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IE Down, Edge Up… Global Browser Usage Stats Are for Cocktail Parties and Conference Slides

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Given that MS Edge is close to crossing Safari in market share (if it hasn’t already in some markets), Chris reminds us that we should look at our current user stats rather than global ones when deciding what browsers to support.

What does it matter to you or me? Nothing, I hope. These global stats should mean very little to us, outside a little casual nerdy cocktail party chatter. Please don’t make decisions about what to support and not support based on global statistics. Put some kind of basic analytics in place on your site, get data from actual visits, and make choices on that data. That’s the only data that matters.

Now, this doesn’t mean that sites should look or behave the exact same in every browser, just that they all get a solid baseline experience.