Develop a website?

So, you decided to develop a super-mega-cool site for a Russian-speaking audience. You have decided on the subject, design and other, other. But here's an interesting question - what browsers to write under, whether to use JavaScript and Cookies, etc. Of course, there are statistics for this.

So I decided to make a small sample of statistics for the past few months, kindly provided by SpyLog

Runet users

Browsers

1. Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 - 31.9688%
   
   Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 - 26.9798%
   
   Opera 9 - 17.8806%, of which:
   
   
   1. Opera 9.27 - 3.2576%
      
      Opera 9.26 - 2.5004%
      
      Opera 9.25 - 2.2335%
      
      Opera 9.50 - 2.2312%
      
      Opera 9.24 - 1.4761%
      
      Opera 9.23 - 1.1596%
      
      
      
      FireFox 2 - 15.3957%, of which:
      
      
      1. FireFox 2.0.0.14 - 8.7303%
         
         FireFox 2.0.0.13 - 2.3272%
         
         FireFox 2.0.0.12 - 2.2589%
         
         
         
         FireFox 3 - 3.0628%
         
         Opera 8 - 1.5698%
         
         Safari 3 - 0.6943%
         
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         Well. At a minimum, do not forget about IE and its bugs - everything is fixed. Similarly, the opera is not bypassed, but it seems that you can ignore Safari.
         
         

         Screen size

         
         
         
         1. 1280x1024 - 42.0192%
            
            1024x768 - 38.0098%
            
            1440x900 - 4.2832%
            
            1152x864 - 4.1294%
            
            800x600 - 3.9573%
            
            1680x1050 - 3.6213%
            
            
            
            Well, do not forget about the resolution of 800x600, but at high resolutions the site should look decent. It is believed that a very wide design is not very convenient.
            
            
            
            

            Javascript and cookies

            
            
            Spaylog about this said that users with disabled cookies and an undefined version of JavaScript - 9.3418%.
            
            Generally speaking, I don’t know whether this means that the scripts are disabled, since it seemed to me that the spylog itself works due to javascript. At the same time, for example, this site reports that, according to the statistics of the same spylog, about 1.5% of users with disabled cookies and about 2% without javascript if I understood correctly.
            
            

            Images

            
            
            According to the Expertum.ru survey (as this site reports), 23% of Internet users are exploring sites by turning off pictures. So make sure that your site looks decent and even more so it can be used completely and without images.
            
            

            Finally

            
            
            In general, IE is leading, but, thank God, at least not the fifth version; The screen resolution is divine, but it's still worth counting 800 pixels wide too; Well, without JavaScript you can not do.
            
            But still, no matter how much you are guided by the majority, it is always worth remembering about mobile devices and people without scripts and with disabled images, so a block layout that would look good with both disabled images and no style support at all, and duplication of new-fashioned Ajax with ordinary forms (Unobtrusive JavaScript is not a bad thing).
            
            I hope this article was useful to you. If this is so, then you can add karma not only to me but also to the habrayuzer SomeTime , who took an active part in its creation.