Good time of the day, dear.
As I understand, habrachelovek likes numbers - he is a techie for the most part. And often on the resource are posted topics (
one ,
two and even with the indicator of the death of the donkey number 6 -
three ) with optimistic statistics on browsers. According to it, it turns out that the share of ie6 has dropped to its lowest point and continues to decline.
This is a global trend. I decided to compare it with the regional one. Let's see what happened ...
I work in a web studio (I will not name names) in the castle. Specifically, the city of Samara. Our clients are mostly from adjacent regions. I climbed into the analytics module from Google, took three of our sites and traced the share of the ie6 browser in 14 months. Why him? Well, probably due to the fact that he delivers a headache more than anyone else (although personally I’m more afraid of the Opera). Then, for the same time period, I selected statistics on the donkey from three sites: liveinternet.ru (statistics for Russia), w3schools.com (without reference to the region), gs.statcounter.com (with the setting filter by Russia).
Exact addresses of the pages with statistics:
liveinternetw3schoolsgs.statcounterOur sites (I will not give addresses (:) I conditionally divided by the target audience in order to compare the browser share in the corporate sector and among ordinary people.
Specificity is as follows. One site represents a furniture company focused on individuals and legal entities - its Central Asia - both.
The second site - the site of the company engaged in metal-roll - its target audience - legal entity.
The third is a company that produces plastic windows, the site is more focused on individuals.
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The first chart is regional statistics. Three sites + arithmetic mean. In each month, the share of new visitors is at least 75%, the share of Russian-speaking visitors is at least 99%, the share of visitors from the Volga Federal District is at least 90%.

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As you can see, for this browser at least 30%, and on average about 40%. The data is noisy, but there is a trend to decline, if you make an approximation, it turns out that the decline is about 0.9% per month.
All three graphs are weakly correlated with each other (data correlation is 55%), but the differences are not so significant that we can talk about the dependence of the browser share on the target audience.
The second schedule.

Here the picture is different and much more optimistic. The difference between liveinternet and gs.statcounter.com is interesting - although both take statistics from Russia. The cross-correlation of data is about 98%.
The last graph is the average of the previous ones.
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From myself I would like to add a few things.
To schedule number 2 - there is a fall after November 2008. Just in mid-November, it was announced that Firefox 2 browser was no longer supported (
news on Habré ), after that, by June 2009, the share of FF 3 grew by 3% according to w3schools.com. Coincidence? I hope not.
After July 2009, the share of ie6 drops sharply on both graphs ... At the end of June 2009, FF 3.5 comes out - maybe a coincidence, since the increase in the FF share was not fixed at that time.
One more thing:). The linear approximation of the graph from our resources has the form y (x) = -0.009x + 0.504. If this equation is solved for y = 0, then x = 56, i.e. According to these statistics, our favorite browser will disappear by April 2013 :).
Similar “very scientific calculations” for the global schedule give us a date ... December 2010.
Well, we will wait)