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by capableweb 1325 days ago
It's gonna depend a lot on your visitors and what kind of website you have. HN will have more users than average with JS disabled for example, as it's a very technology oriented user base. The amount of people who log into HN will be even more likely to have JS disabled than the ones that visits without logging in.

If you're doing a website about privacy/security and have a lot of visitors using Tor, you'll have a even higher user base that has JS disabled, as that's the default settings for Tor Browser.

If you're doing a website about ponies for your local community, you're unlikely to have a high amount of visitors with JS disabled.

So TLDR: it depends.

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> It's gonna depend a lot on your visitors and what kind of website you have. HN will have more users than average with JS disabled for example, as it's a very technology oriented user base. The amount of people who log into HN will be even more likely to have JS disabled than the ones that visits without logging in.

Yes but that's a very transient situation, surely those people can reenable JS in less than two clicks to fix their browser configuration?

s/fix/break/
What do you mean? The website would literally be broken by the user's miconfiguration of their browser.