: Anyone still using JavaScript disabled? Is there anyone left that's not using JavaScript? When designing websites, is it worth to care about that fraction of visitors? At least in Firefox you

@Miguel251

This question has been asked earlier and the answers are still relevant. Whether it is worth to care about visitors who have JavaScript disabled depends on the site, its purpose, and who the demographic is.

More than users, you may also have to think about how search engines interpret the content on the web page if a large percentage of the site's visitors come via search engines. There is news that Googlebot, Google's web crawler, now executes and indexes some content in JavaScript though in the past it was "only looking at the raw textual content that we’d get in the HTTP response body and didn't really interpret what a typical browser running JavaScript would see.". This change could negatively impact search results, unless a few basic rules are taken into account.

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@Annie201

From the info I found through this question on SO I guess that between 0.2 and 2% of users have JavaScript disabled, depending on the country. I'd say take 1% as a rule of thumb.

Whether you should care about this 1% depends on what website your building. If you're doing e-commerce and you have analyzed your audience a bit you can probably estimate if that 1% is worth the effort. If you're building government websites with information for the public that will be visited a million times a year you should probably care.

By the way, apparently it is still possible to disable JS in FF and I guess that people who hate JS will disable it.

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