Comment by port11
3 months ago
I don't disagree, but it makes for bad web development practices. Google Analytics is still the de facto king everywhere I've worked, but it's going to more often Safari and Firefox than other browsers due to tracking protections and users being more likely to run ad blockers. Then there's all the edge cases like Brave.
I don't remember the discrepancy that the study found, but it's significant.
So… we keep optimising for Chrome, as if that's the bulk of our audience. That makes things shittier for everybody else, and we think it's okay because they're such a small part of the group. This reminds me of a former client burning almost 9 million euros every year because they excluded IE6–8 from their reporting, yet they would account for 15% of the traffic.
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