Latest Stats as at 5/4/2009 plus some amazing geeky statistics.
These figures cover the 16-day period 16/3/2009 to 31/3/2009.

Previous figures are in brackets and each figure spans half a month.  

Vista Market Share
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For period 16th to 31st March 2009, figures based on visits:-

XP 64.1 (was 67.3, 66.2, 65.3, 64.1, 64.7, 64.2, 66.2, 66.7)
Vista 20.4 (was 21.1, 21.1, 20.4, 20.9, 22.0, 21.9, 19.6, 19.7)
Other Windows 5.5 (was 3.5, 3.6, 4.3, 4.9, 3.3, 3.9, 4.3, 4.2, 4.7)
Mac 7.4 (was 5.9,  6.7, 7.8, 7.9, 7.7, 7.3, 7.6, 7.3, 6.6, 6.6)
Linux 1.2 (was 0.8, 0.9, 1.0, 1.0, 1.2, 1.2, 0.9, 1.1, 1.1, 1.2) 
Others 1.5 (was 1.4, 1.5, 1.2, 1.2, 1.1, 1.5, 1.3, 1.1, 0.7, 0.8)

These figures exclude some dork from the USA who made 156 visits 
whilst pretending to be a Samsung mobile phone plus 76 visits 
pretending to be an NEC mobile phone.  His main aim was
to read all the pages without the pictures. 

Browser Breakup
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Visit percentages for the period 16th to 31st March 2009.

IE 66.5 (was 68.6, 67.0, 67.0, 66.2, 66.0, 63.5 (Xmas), 67,5, 68.7)
FF 24.1 (was 23.1, 24.0, 22.8, 24.2, 24.5, 26.2 (Xmas), 23.2, 22.3)  
Safari 5.4 (was 4.7, 5.2, 5.9, 6.1, 5.8, 5.9, 5.7, 5.6, 5.1, 5.0, 5.0)
Chrome 1.2 (was 1.0, 1.3, 1.2, 1.1, 1,4, 1.2, 1.1, 0.8, 0.8, 0.8, 0.9)
Opera 1.1, (was 1.0, 0.9, 1.3, 1.1, 0.9, 1.0, 0.8, 0.9, 0.8, 0.9, 0.9)
All Others 1.6 (was 1.5, 1.5, 1.8, 1.3, 1.4, 1.6, 1.7, 1.6, 1.3, 1.4)

Search Engines Share
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Percentage breakup of visits coming via search engines 
for March 16th to 31st 2009:-

Google 86.3 (was 86.8, 85.4, 85.8, 85.5, 82.8, 84.3, 85.6, 86.9, 85.8)
Yahoo 6.3 (was 7.1, 8.0,  7.8, 8.0, 10.1, 9.1, 7.9, 7.6, 7.6, 8.1, 7.5)
Microsoft 2.9 (was 2.3, 2.5, 2.3, 2.3, 2.6, 3.2, 3.0, 2.7, 3.1, 2.5)
All others 4.5 (was 3.8, 4.1, 4.2, 4.1, 4.5, 3.3, 3.6, 2.7, 3.4, 3.1)

It's the worst figure ever recorded for Yahoo.

The Smoking Dog Incident
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The Non Smokers' web site has a rather wacky page 
showing animals smoking, mainly cats and dogs.  The website
www.fark.com is a meeting place for rather geeky types 
who post each day's trivia to their forums.  

These two totally separate parts of the Internet came crashing 
together on 25th March when a discussion started on rules for 
controlling your pets.  At 3:54 pm on 25th, one poster cheerfully 
suggested that dogs should not be allowed to smoke tobacco 
and linked directly to this picture:
 
http://www.nsma.org.au/pics2007/dogpuff.jpg

In the next six minutes, around 330 people "visited" the NSMA 
website just to download this pic, followed by 3900 in the next 
hour, then 1300 then 860 then 560 and so on, decreasing every hour.

The wave had pretty much passed in two days but, over a four day 
period, 8100 copies of the smoking dog picture were served out to the 
net, for a total of 109MB.

The normal statistics are built on around 10,000 visits per week
so understandably 8100 additional one-hit visits all chasing the same 
picture have been excluded from all figures presented above.

Analysis of the hits to the smoking dog picture are as follows:

Smoking Dog Operating System
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XP 61.5
Vista 18.8
Other Windows 3.4
Mac 10.0
Linux 4.1
Others 2.0

Clearly the Mac figure is well up, and the Linux result 
is double, if not triple the normal result. 
Consequently the Microsoft results are the lowest I have ever seen.
Most of the Others are mobile phones, and these mobiles 
are overwhelmingly iPhone and Blackberry.

Smoking Dog Browsers
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IE 26.6%
Firefox 60.1%
Safari 5.4%
Chrome 3.5%
Opera 1.6%
All others 2.1%

The low figure for MSIE and the massive switch to Firefox is amazing.
On XP and Vista it's IE 33% and Firefox 62% and all others 5%. 
On the Mac OS-X platform, it's 59% Firefox, 38% Safari and 2% Others.
On Linux it's Firefox-3 76%, earlier Firefox 12% and all others 12%.

There were even two visits from a browser called Shiretoko 
which is a national park in Japan, but it is also the name 
of the Alpha version of Firefox 3.5 currently being developed. 

With IE  users, 4% were using IE-8 which is not released yet.

These figures represent a young, geeky, computer-literate 
group of users. Perhaps they live in a different world, 
or perhaps these results are a glimpse into our future.

If so, Firefox and Linux can break out the champagne, 
Safari might be about to loose their market share,
and Microsoft should be deeply worried.

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