A site must be adapted to its readers but we must not forget the support that will be the messenger of your good word. Are you sure that your site is adapted to the media used by your visitors? Another article on responsive design? No. There is no question of adapting your site to the width of the screen here, although it remains an ergonomic advantage if theWeb developmentis well done. I want you to think here about how your site will be viewed by your visitors. To confirm that your site is optimized, you must first know your readers or rather their browsers. Let's take a look at the use of these. Browsers in 2014? If we look back to 2010, there is no surprise: Chrome has taken a colossal place in our life as web surfers, Internet Explorer and Firefox can only be satisfied with a place on the podium.
I won't go into the debate on publisher strategies, but the big loser is above all Firefox, which was the darling of the French not so long ago, what happened? The power of Google has struck again, thus monopolizing our emails, what we are looking for and with browsers now what we consult. But I digress, let's come back to Kuwait Email List visitors: in 2014 if you test 3 browsers you have visited visitors on PC and Mac. browser evolutions (source W3C) Many of our clients ask me the question of the distribution of the graph above if we only look at professionals. It is true that internet explorer must then go up in the statistics. But to date, I have not found a figure presenting this data, if you have one, dear reader, please indicate it in the comments.
Finally, if you are wondering in the case of IE if it is worth taking into account IE7 and IE8, know that in December 2013 these browsers represented respectively 0.4 and 3.2% of browsers. Screen resolutions in 2014? For years I have heard that it was necessary to make a site with centered information with an ideal width of 960 pixels. Until very recently, I swore by this rule from another time, it must be recognized that it is no longer mandatory today. If we look at 2013 (in green on the graph below) the resolutions lower than 1280×1024 all experienced a strong decrease. We will also note the appearance in 2012 of a new rising resolution of 16:9 (1366×768). evolutions of screen resolution (source W3C)So what conclusions on the maximum size of a perfect site and not full-screen.