Built for Internet Explorer
Your site still carries workarounds for Internet Explorer. It has not been touched in a decade.
How to see it yourself, in a minute
- View the page source and search for “lt IE”, “html5shiv” or “respond.js”.
- Any of them means the site was built to keep Internet Explorer happy, which dates it to before 2015.
Or paste your address into the free audit, which checks this and seventeen other faults in ten seconds.
Why it matters
Code written to keep Internet Explorer happy dates a site to before 2015. It slows every page for the browsers people actually use and almost always travels with the other faults on this list.
Code written for a browser that no longer exists slows every page for the browsers people actually use, and it almost always travels with the other faults on this list: not mobile, insecure, no analytics. It is less a fault than a diagnosis.
How we fix it
We strip the dead code, modernise the templates, and retest on current browsers and phones. Usually this is the moment to rebuild rather than patch.
- Strip the dead code and modernise the templates.
- Retest on current browsers and phones.
- Usually this is the moment to rebuild rather than patch; we say which after looking.
How long: A day, or part of a rebuild.
This is one of the eighteen on the fix one thing list. How a fix is quoted, staged and signed off is on how it works; the site we run ourselves, with none of these faults, is on the proof page.
Who it costs most
On a site that carries stock, this fault is paid for on every item page, not just the homepage. It is one of the first things we check for:
- Websites for tool and industrial suppliers · Products on your own site
- Websites for salvage and used parts dealers · Parts on your own site
- Websites for tyre and parts suppliers · Tyres and parts on your own site
Questions people ask about this
- Is a site from 2014 really that bad?
- It was fine in 2014. Phones, browsers, Google and your customers have all changed since, and the site has not.
People usually find this page by searching
- “old website needs updating”
- “website built years ago modernise”
- “website redesign cost”
Has your site got it?
Paste your address. This and seventeen other faults, checked in seconds.
Free, no call. The first findings come up in a few seconds and the full result in about half a minute. We load your site in a real mobile browser the way Google measures it, read your inner pages, your DNS, certificate, email records and sitemap, follow your stock list to the pages for the things you actually sell, and show you the three worst things on screen.
Or fix the lot at once
If the audit finds five or more, a rebuild is usually cheaper than five fixes. Prices are on the page.