{"id":217,"date":"2011-05-09T14:47:31","date_gmt":"2011-05-09T13:47:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cotsweb.com\/blog\/?p=217"},"modified":"2011-12-22T10:17:49","modified_gmt":"2011-12-22T10:17:49","slug":"how-many-people-have-javascript-disabled-in-their-browsers-revisited","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cotsweb.com\/blog\/how-many-people-have-javascript-disabled-in-their-browsers-revisited-217.html","title":{"rendered":"How many people have javaScript disabled in their browsers ? Revisited"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A little while ago I tried to devise a reliable method for figuring out <a title=\"How many people have javaScript disabled in their browsers?\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cotsweb.com\/blog\/how-many-people-have-javascript-disabled-in-their-browsers-161.html\">what proportion of browsers had javaScript disabled<\/a>.\u00a0 My method sort of worked but then I discovered that Awstats (which is installed on all my sites) had a facility for determining whether visitors had javaScript disabled or not.\u00a0 To activate this functionality I needed to<a title=\"How to install the aw_stats_misc_tracker to track how many people have javaScript disabled.\" href=\"http:\/\/awstats.sourceforge.net\/docs\/awstats_faq.html#SCREENSIZE\"> install the awstats_misc_tracker<\/a> which was fairly straight forward, from then on I have been collecting the necessary data.<\/p>\n<p>The results?\u00a0 After nearly 2 months of tracking I can say that about 2.5% have javaScript disabled, or 97.5% have javaScript enabled.<\/p>\n<p>The website I have been tracking is\u00a0 a <a title=\"Accommodation, Eating out and shopping in Stow on the Wold\" href=\"http:\/\/www.stowonthewold.info\">business and visitor guide to Stow on the Wold<\/a>.\u00a0 I chose this site because it is fairly busy (about 4000 visitors per month) and because it very much a general purpose website with a wide cross-section of visitors.\u00a0 I suspect that a more technical site might show more people with javaScript disabled, my theory is that most people don&#8217;t want to disable javaScript and wouldn&#8217;t know how to disable it if they did want to.<\/p>\n<p>Update 21st December 2011 &#8211; A few more months of data show the percentage with javaScript disabled fairly steady at about 3%. \u00a0 So about 97% of my visitors have javaScript enabled which is useful to know.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A little while ago I tried to devise a reliable method for figuring out what proportion of browsers had javaScript disabled.\u00a0 My method sort of worked but then I discovered that Awstats (which is installed on all my sites) had a facility for determining whether visitors had javaScript disabled or not.\u00a0 To activate this functionality [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[33,22,21,18],"tags":[138,102],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cotsweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cotsweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cotsweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cotsweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cotsweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.cotsweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":247,"href":"https:\/\/www.cotsweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217\/revisions\/247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cotsweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cotsweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cotsweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}