Dawn of the Geeks

All *.icarusindie.com:2004 websites (such as Indie-Mobile) use the same database to track ips and whether or not they have Javascript enabled. The results are interesting.

86506 ips counted
42560 ips with javascript enabled.
49.1988994983%

There’s no break down by user agent since I don’t store that information (perhaps I should because it could be interesting) but overall just under 50% of all ips that have visited my sites have javascript enabled. The sites are restricted if javascript isn’t enabled.

It’d be interesting to know why. My assumption is that it’s still a hold over from when everyone was claiming that Javascript is evil and will steal your information. Meanwhile many large companies such as Google and various banking institutions utilize Javascript to create more user friendly and feature rich web-sites.

Javascript is not evil. In the past it has just been the victim of evil people.