Cool topic: WordPress is considering giving up IE11 support, because its utilization rate is less than 1%, is it difficult for WordPress

On March 11, IT Home reported that according to the official news of wordpress.org, WordPress, the world's largest website building platform, is considering giving up its support for IE11 browser because its utilization rate is less than 1%. According to the statistics of the three platforms, H é ctor Prieto, the author of the article, finds that the utilization rate of IE11 browser is as low as about 1%.

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As of February 25, 2021, IE11 statistics of three institutions are as follows:

StatCounter’s GlobalStats：0.71%

W3 Counter：1.2%

WordPress.com：0.46%

According to the official, based on the usage of users of the platform, once the support for IE11 is abandoned, tens of thousands of users will be abandoned. However, foreign media said that when Microsoft stopped supporting IE versions 8, 9 and 10 in 2017, the utilization rate of these browsers was less than 1%. So now is the right time to decide to stop supporting IE11.

IT Home learned that Microsoft said in August 2020 that its Microsoft 365 subscription and Team App would no longer support IE browser in a few months. However, since IE11 is still built into the latest Win10 system, this does not mean that IE11 browser will stop updating.

H é ctor Prieto said that at the beginning of 2020, the website would prompt users not to recommend using IE browser. If we continue to provide support in 2021, the company will need high maintenance costs, which is not cost-effective. The company official held an internal discussion on February 23-24 this year to decide whether to stop the support of IE11.

Advantages of WordPress stopping supporting IE11:

This reduces script size, maintenance burden, and maintenance time. The actual test shows that not moving the script to IE11 will reduce the file size of Gutenberg JavaScript by 84kB, equivalent to 7.78%. The average script size will shrink by 24%. This is especially helpful for users with slow network speeds, and will improve the performance of most users.

H é ctor Prieto suggested that users submit their views on this initiative before March 18. The official hopes to solicit the voice of the whole community.