Can someone please help with technical question!

[BobAnderson]

I have noticed that our website tool to get a quote does not work with active scripting disabled is this bad?

How many people have this disabled?

[BlueprintMarketing]

Hi Bob,

I want to apologize for the misinformation I gave you. I misread your question and apologize for that.

Paul,

I apologize if I miss led Bob. I misread it, and all I can do at this point is apologize.

I put the work in because I read the question I thought they were speaking of something else. So that's why I spent the time to Try and answer it. I've spoken to Keri privately and while I can't say I will never misinterpret something  again ever I am definitely doing things to prevent that from happening.

All the best,

Thomas

[ThompsonPaul]

Thomas, why put so much work into another answer that doesn't have anything to do with the original question? And could actually serve to badly confuse the original poster instead?

[ThompsonPaul]

Hey Bob, you're in luck. Your own Government Digital Services ministry has done a test to provide you the exact answer to your question for UK audiences. According to their recent experiment in October 2013, approx 1.1% of visitors to the GOV.UK home page were missing out on JavaScript enhancement.

Of particular interest is the fact that some users didn't get the JavaScript even though they didn't actually have it disabled - as a result of slow connections, network or browser errors etc.

As the article mentions, this percentage can vary depending on the type of target user, but it's a good general yardstick. It also tallies well with a similar study done by Yahoo in 2010 where the figure was 1.3% for UK users.

That said though - you absolutely don't want the primary conversion mechanism on your site to be entirely dependent on active scripting. Done properly, the form should work at a basic level even without JavaScript, with additional functionality provided for those with scripting enabled (form validation, etc.). This is the "progressive enhancement" to which the above article refers.

Hope that answers you question?

Paul

[BlueprintMarketing]

Hi Keri,

Thank you for bringing that my attention

OP,

In terms of numbers of how many people actually have it disabled on their browser I think that's extremely hard to find out. I linked to buildwith.com which can tell you how many of the top million sites need JavaScript to operate correctly.

http://trends.builtwith.com/javascript

I looked around for a number, and I really don't know I believe because chrome is the biggest browser right now on the web, and it is recommended to be on that many people are using active JavaScript.

http://mashable.com/2012/05/21/chrome-is-tops/

While without a doubt there is a risk by using active JavaScript you open up your computer to attacks rather it's Mac PC, Linux whatever.

Here's some information on why you might want to turn it off.

http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2012/08/30/how-turn-off-java-browser/

this link as well as information even though it says enabling on the dangers.

http://www.alanwood.net/demos/enabling-javascript.html

One thing if you're worried about this I would recommend is installing either a tool that blocks sites known to exploit  malware rather be from JavaScript or in other forms.

I personally use http://dyn.com/labs/dyn-internet-guide/

You can use

http://www.neustar.biz/enterprise/dns-services/recursive-dns-faqs

http://openDNS.com

it is simply a matter of changing your reclusive DNS name servers while

They use their algorithms along with barracuda's malware technology to show you a this is a  Site that is known for malware/spyware screen if you go to a bad site or  a site tries to redirect you it will stop them.

http://openDNS.com

I would use name bench a Google product that will tell you which reclusive name servers are the quickest for whatever region of the world you're in.

After which I would choose a service that blocks these types of attacks for instance Google's DNS will not be of any assistance in this manner so you might have the fastest download speed using them, but you do not want to change your DNS servers over to them because you will not get the benefit of blocking malware/spyware.

he only 2 that I can tell you I have used with success are OpenDNS & Dyn

a better explanation for exactly how to set up on your computer is contained in this link from OpenDNS

http://use.opendns.com/  Better instructions in the URL before this word.

http://dyn.com/labs/dyn-internet-guide/

However, rather you use Dyn or OpenDNS the set up is identical so follow those instructions in the link above to set your computer up that way. You can also of course set up through the router that's what I prefer that way everything is protected on your network.

Dyn Setup For DNS Veterans

Replace your current DNS resolvers with the following:

resolver1.dyndnsinternetguide.com – 216.146.35.35  resolver2.dyndnsinternetguide.com – 216.146.36.36

the URL for open DNS and the instructions on how to set it up are here

http://www.opendns.com/

• 208.67.222.222
• 208.67.220.220

OpenDNS

another excellent system that does the same things as the others and has a very good way of showing you how to implement reclusive DNS is

http://www.neustar.biz/enterprise/dns-services/free-recursive-dns

Neustar DNS Advantage addresses,

156.154.70.1
156.154.71.1

I would always recommend that no matter what system you run on your use an antivirus program. For instance I use Macs some people say that there wasting time and money using an antivirus I do not agree with that and would recommend a standard antivirus program for your computer no matter what type of computer you're running. However to prevent most of the JavaScript errors you can do a lot on the network side with DNS setups like the ones I've talked about.

one last thing Akamai CDN has an issue with any cast reclusive DNS servers meaning it's slightly slower on some websites that use the highest version of Akamai's content delivery network. You can get by without noticing it if you have at least a cable connection. I just thought I would let you know.

Sincerely,

Thomas

[KeriMorgret]

The OP is actually asking how many other users have it disabled, not how to personally enable or disable it.

[BlueprintMarketing]

well without it you cannot do quite a few things. Here is an article talking about how to enable it if that's what you wish to do. In order to get your website tool to create quotes to work you should follow these instructions.

http://enable-javascript.com/

or check out

http://activatejavascript.org/en/

I have it enabled personally I don't know how many others do  builtwith.com would be a great place to find out that type of information.

Sincerely,

Thomas