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I'd be very shocked if the percentage of all human users that have JS disabled is more than <0.1%. Even web crawlers and other bots can (and do) execute JS thes

• chrismorgan 3y ago
  Some crawlers execute JS, but last I heard or checked even Bing’s crawler seldom did, and Google’s clearly tried to avoid doing so. Of humans that deliberately disable JS, certainly going to be under 0.1%. (I’m one of them, incidentally, because on average it makes the web much better, lighter and faster.) Of humans where various JS doesn’t run, due to having an older browser, a corporate proxy that blocks some things, a content blocker like uBlock Origin that incidentally blats your script, unreliable network conditions, and more things… well, that number is regularly quite a lot higher than 0.1%, often above 1%. As for something like the Statcounter tracker, which these specific stats are built from, their methodology is obviously stupidly broken and has been for many years: ad blockers will tend to block it. (uBlock Origin does by default, and I expect others to as well.) And that number is generally agreed to be well above 10% (some say as high as 40%, though I’m sceptical of that), and heavily overrepresents users of less common browsers like Firefox.