Latest Stats as at 4/3/2011. ============================= These figures cover the 13-day period 15/2/2011 to 28/2/2011. ============================= =============================== Introduction ============ Further minor cases continue where rogue users upset the stats. From now on the percentages below exclude even more dud visits, especially where the caller is making up non-existent file names. A couple of regular time-wasters have been excluded. Even a single visit from these people is not worth counting. This week I have discovered that about a third of visits from Windows 98 machines are actually ancient robots still pretending to be Windows 98. Wonders never cease. All computer magazines are full of thoughts about Android versus the next round of Nokia phones which will run Windows 7. In the meantime, Nokia/Symbian is rapidly loosing market share and even MX magazine (the free afternoon newspaper at railway stations) had a long article explaining how Nokia is no good, and written in words that office juniors could understand. All this argy-bargy tends to obscure the extraordinary success of Apple's iPhone, iPad and iPod with their quality design and high consumer acceptance of their locked-in approach. Operating System Market Share ============================== For the period 16th to 28th February 2011, these percentage figures are based on visits, with earlier figures in brackets:- XP 38.9 (39.9, 39.3, 38.2 ,38.2, 41.7, 42.5, 43.1, 43.6, 44.7, 45.0) Windows-7 24.8 (23.0, 22.5, 22.0, 22.6, 21.5, 21.2, 19.8, 19.7) Vista 13.6 (13.9, 15.5, 15.5, 15.9, 15.9, 16.6, 16.6, 17.0, 17.1) Other Windows 1.6 (1.8, 1.9, 2.3, 2.0, 2.4, 2.6, 2.7, 2.4, 2.5, 2.4) Mac 10.6 (10.7, 10.2, 10.6, 10.4, 10.6, 10.1, 10.7, 10.6, 10.0, 10.9) iPhone etc 5.5 (5.4, 5.9, 6.3, 6.4, 4.2, 3.7, 4.1, 3.3, 3.0, 3.4) Other Mobiles 4.1 (4.4, 4.1, 4.2, 3.7, 2.7, 2.4, 2.2, 2.4, 2.2, 2.1) Linux 0.8 (0.9, 0.7, 0.8, 0.9, 1.0, 0.8, 0.9, 0.8, 0.9, 1.1, 1.1) Windows-7 increases whilst Vista declines. Other Mobiles (i.e. other than Apple) has doubled in six months. The "iPhone" result includes both iPads and iPods. There were 149 iPad and 91 iPod visits, compared with 668 iPhone visits. The Android visits were 152, now well ahead of the Blackberry on 117 visits and Nokia/Symbian on 112. Amazing changes in market share in just a couple of months, with six companies selling Android phones. Expect a separate Android category soon. Current results show just 13 visits from mobiles running Windows. Nokia and Microsoft have a lot of catching-up ahead of them. The total sample size was 16432 visits by humans. This figure is lower because the analysis period was only 13 days. Browser Breakup =============== Percentages of visits for the period 16th to 28th February 2011:- IE 48.3 (48.0, 47.2, 48.9, 45.2, 52.1, 51.7, 54.4, 54.3, 55.5, 55.0) FF 20.9 (22.4, 22.2, 21.1, 24.2, 22.2, 23.2, 20.6, 21.5, 21.5, 21.5) Safari 14.6 (13.4, 14.2, 15.1, 14.7, 12.6, 12.3, 12.9, 12.0, 11.6) Chrome 11.5 (10.5, 11.7, 10.5, 10.3, 9.5, 9.0, 8.8, 8.9, 8.3, 7.7) Opera 2.3 (2.7, 2.1, 1.7, 2.0, 1.7, 2.0, 1.8, 1.8, 1.7, 1.7, 1.9) All Others 2.3 (3.0, 2.6, 2.6, 3.5, 2.1, 1.8, 1.4, 1.5, 1.5, 1.5) One writer has pointed out the stagnation of Firefox is caused mainly by the success of Chrome, and not by people sticking with IE-8. The sample size was 16806 visits by humans. Safari includes iPhones. Search Engines Share ==================== Percentage breakup of visits coming via search engines for February 16th to 28th, 2011:- Google 90.6 (89.7, 89.9, 89.8, 89.9, 89.1, 90.7, 91.0, 88.4, 90.2) Bing 3.2 (4.0, 4.3, 3.3, 3.2, 4.0, 3.8, 4.2, 2.9, 2.9, 3.2, 2.6) Yahoo 3.2 (3.4, 3.4, 3.6, 4.1, 4.0, 3.1, 3.0, 3.3, 3.2, 3.3, 3.3) All others 2.8 (2.9, 2.5, 3.3, 2.8, 2.9, 2.4, 4.1, 3.7, 3.3, 2.8) The analysis of searches and search engines has been improved, but the results produced are not noticeably different. My latest figures show Google's share back over 90%. By contrast, articles on computer industry web sites claim Bing's results are higher quality than Google's results. Clearly the users of search engines don't think so. Such articles are surely planted by Microsoft lackeys. All search engines have a massive problem with spammy results (from server-farms with almost no content and lots of adverts and lots of links to other people's real content) and Google (along with all others) is quick to detect and axe the parasites who make their money from clicks and adverts without writing much content. I get lots of hits from useless web sites with stupid names like www.find-the-best-hotel-in-the-world.com. They don't last. The sample size above was 12465 searches. ================================ ================================ Trivia Corner ============= Bing Improvement ================ Tests by academics, using wacky searches in Google with words that normal users would never use, show that Google's results appear in Bing about two weeks later. By using IE-8 to search Google, they have demonstrated that IE-8 is recording a user's searches plus Google's results and sending this information back to Bing. This is how Bing improves. Keep reading the Bing press releases. Nokia/Symbian and Windows 7 ========================== This is the one to watch. Microsoft needs to make a transition to mobile devices and Nokia might be their last chance. Quarterly results ================= Quarterly results since mid-2008 are tabulated at http://www.bondivillage.com/techo/logstats/quarters.htm ================================ ================================