Here's some fun stuff about our district level site (i.e., most stuff on www.hebisd.edu) for people who are geeky like me:
The low end:
- About 0.4% of our visitors use dial-up. (About one in every 250 visitors) Most people have a broadband connection, whether it be cable or DSL at home or faster connections at work.
- About 8.6% of our visitors are using older browsers (IE6, FF2, etc). 88.1% are using IE7
- About 9.4% of our visitors have their screen resolution set at 800 x 600. Smaller sizes than that represent less than 0.2% of our visits. (Everyone else is at larger resolutions.) These numbers have been changing rapidly in the past year, even before we implemented our new design.
The high end:
- More than 99.1% of our visitors have a version of Flash 9 installed. About 0.5% don't have Flash installed/enabled.
- 3.3% of our visitors are using relatively modern browsers: Firefox 3, Chrome, Safari 525+, or Opera 9 (and, honestly, a fair number of those hits were probably Carolyn and I)
- 87.3% of visitors' displays are set to 32-bit color. During the same days last year, 35.4% were 32-bit, and 60.1% were 16-bit.
A lot of the improvement over last year is because the Technology Department re-imaged computers over the summer. The previous image was set to 800x600 and had IE6 installed. The new image defaults to 1024 x 768 and has IE7 installed. And since a huge percentage of our visits come from district computers, of course that drastically changes our stats. It would have been really nice, from my perspective, to switch everyone to a more cutting edge browser that could be updated from time to time, since we could have added some really nice polishing touches to the design. I could see how there might be logistical challenges with something like that, but I can dream, right?
(comment or email me if you want to know about a stat that I didn't mention.)