IE9 Will Not Be Available For XP

(NOTE: IE9 is not to be released until sometime in 2011)

IE9 is already being highly talked about as having many of the features that developers have been asking for (HTML5, CSS3, Canvas, etc.), but the disappointment for developers is going to be more for the fact that Windows XP users won’t be able to upgrade to IE9 at all.

Internet Explorer users still hover around 70% of all browsers used by the general public.

That breaks down by version:
—IE8: 59%
—IE7: 30%
—IE6: 11%

IE8 has done better at getting users to upgrade than IE7 ever did. But IE6 still hangs around despite (or “in spite”).

Operating systems very similarly show Windows at about 87% of all web users.

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Google Analytics Intelligence - immediate knowledge of trend shifts

Google Analytics recently added some new features to their service, and one of them in particular is going to prove to be extremely useful: Intelligence reports and alerts.

Here’s Google’s spotlight blog on the new feature:
Google Analytics Blogspot Article

The purpose of the intelligence section is for Google to alert you to unexpected changes. Google highlights items (anything like visits, or people from California, or specific referring sources) and it will show the value that Google expected and what the actual value was (high or low). It even lists a significance meter on each alert.

Additionally, you can create custom alerts so that if something important takes a dip or gets a spike, you can have an email sent to yourself.…

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Facebook - Time Spent on Site

A new article from AdAge Digital:
Facebook Trumps Top 20 Sites in Time Spent

Nice info regarding how long users stay on the big social media sites. Facebook wins with an average of 5 hours and 12 minutes for the month of July 2009. Facebook’s nearest competitors for our daily freetime were Yahoo!, AOL, Fox Interactive, and MSN (respectively).

Time spent on site is an important metric for any online publisher or portal site, as the more time our eyeballs are on their site, the more opportunity they have to show you ads. So after a report like this, you can expect advertisers to strongly consider Facebook’s ad network for placement.

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