Roman said the following on 12/15/2006 10:47 PM:
I am wondering if anybody can provide statistics what is percentage of
visitors with disabled JavaScript.
Exactly and precisely ~97.382923% of web users have it enabled while
Exactly and precisely ~1.283757% have it disabled.
My point is that statistics are worthless and most are made up on the
spot and don't always add up to 100%.
Disabled Javascript isn't the biggest problem though. Javascript not
present at all is a bigger problem. PDA's, Cell Phones and the such
without JS support at all.
Even more interesting would be statistics of users with disabled
JavaScript making a purchase. I am more likely to purchase from my home
than from work and I think the disabled JS is mostly result of IT dept.
policies.
I have never agreed with the premise that IT Departments disable
Javascript for any good reason other than some idiots paranoia and most
Intra-nets fall flat on there face with it disabled.
Is e-commerce site missing much if requires JavaScript ?
Not really, depending on who you ask, what the product is and how the
site was designed. If it is designed properly, it works with or without
JS, one just takes longer than the other is all.
The argument is made that JS is to be used as a convenience to the user
and it has some merit, but, with the advent of AJAX and AJAX driven
sites the trend is towards a dependency on scripting, not away from it.
And that holds just as true for e-commerce sites as it does for
non-commerce sites.
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