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> until you're confident that no browser could reasonably be still loading version X of the page

During experiments of this stuff at a big company (which saw a large portion of the web during this time):

- we saw most (>80%) of users staying on a web app ~2-3 days (most likely skewed from people leaving tabs open over the weekend).

- 95% was ~2 weeks

- 100% was about 600 day (yes, apparently we had users with a tab open for nearly 2 years)

If you are seeking 100%, you are going to be waiting a while.

: this is 100% from memory, I don't work there anymore.



Presumably at some point you trigger a forced client side reload to get people off old client versions?

I'm impressed you kept the measurements going long enough to track the 600-day users though!


This is what pointed out a reason for implementing that feature!


Nowadays we get this for free with Chrome


that 100%ile sounds like me...




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