One in ten websites fail to provide full and complete access to visitors using non-Internet Explorer browsers such as Firefox and risk alienating customers and suffering consequential revenue losses. Currently 28% of internet users now use Firefox as an alternative web browser to Internet Explorer.

This is the primary finding of research undertaken by web testing specialists who examined a number of well-known sites using the Firefox browser and checked site compatibility with recognised web standards.

But it's not just smaller websites that turn away non Internet Explorers users include Jobcentreplus and the Odeon . Sites that embed non-standard web coding, typically recognisable to only Internet Explorer include British American Tobacco and an insurance site of Lloyds TSB www.insurance.co.uk.

When webmasters design first for Internet Explorer and not standards-compliant browsers, they so often end up restricting user access to the website which has detrimental long term affects for a company.

Companies who value their brand need to address browser issues immediately. By chosing a developer who has made the move to standards-based design a company will reap the benefits in the short term making their website accessible to a larger proportion of users and in the long term increasing traffic to their site as Firefox will only increase their market share year by year.

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