{"id":11844,"date":"2009-02-02T22:42:03","date_gmt":"2009-02-03T06:42:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2009\/02\/02\/11844.html"},"modified":"2009-02-02T22:42:03","modified_gmt":"2009-02-03T06:42:03","slug":"why-you-should-test-your-pages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2009\/02\/02\/why-you-should-test-your-pages\/","title":{"rendered":"Why you should test your pages in more than one browser"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I've always been an advocate of testing web pages in multiple browsers to make sure everything works.<\/p>\n<p>Now there's new data to support that approach:<\/p>\n<p>As of January, 2009, Safari (regardless of operating system) accounts for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.appleinsider.com\/articles\/09\/02\/01\/mac_web_share_hits_record_9_9_percent_in_january.html\">8% of all page views<\/a> (so one in twelve page requests comes from someone running Safari), and Firefox over 21% (more than one in five).<\/p>\n<p>So if you test only in IE (68%), then it's possible that one in three of your visitors may encounter problems with your site.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, that works the other way as well--don't test only in Firefox or only in Safari. (That tends to be the mistake I make.)<\/p>\n<p>Also, of course, your visitor ratios may vary depending on what your site is about. I imagine that MSDN, for example, has significantly more than 68% IE users.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve always been an advocate of testing web pages in multiple browsers to make sure everything works. Now there&#8217;s new&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11844\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}