I’ve talked a lot about ways to assess if your current site is really optimized for the visitor. Of course you consider navigation, content, linking and programming working correctly. Add to the list the giant spectrum of which browsers your potential audience might be using.
I recently started a new blog and after just a week I’ve seen visitors using 18 different browsers/versions of browsers. Did you know when all versions of all browsers are considered there are more than 50 potential browser programs someone landing on your site may be using.
I dare say my blog is like many other sites, 82% of all my traffic are using either IE or Firefox. What to do with the other 18% then? I’m showing Safari, Seamonkey, Mozilla, Opera, Chrome and others. The best way to check if your site appears ‘normally’ on most browsers (all is probably optimistic) is to run a check.
Browser Shots offers a free scan of your url, you can preselect all or some of the known browsers prior to running the scan. Results can take a while so brew some more coffee while you wait. When you get back you can see if your site by definition is due a serious overhaul or not. The older the site the more potential for that being the case, especially when you consider how many versions of each browser have been released over the years.
Again, the key to deciding what to do with your site is knowing where it stands in real terms. Hopefully checking browser views will help.
Tim at greenseedwebdesign
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