Latest Stats as at 24/4/2010.
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These figures cover the 15-day period 1/4/2010 to 15/4/2010.

This fortnight minor programming faults have been found that hindered 
the detection of the "iMac".  In turn, total figures for the Mac 
may have been slightly low recently, but the fault has been fixed.

This fortnight saw the release of the eagerly awaited iPad.
Already I have seen 67 hits comprising 9 visits.  Watch this space.


Operating System Market Share
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For the period 1st to 15th April 2010, these percentage figures 
are based on visits, with earlier figures in brackets:-

XP 46.6 (49.4, 49.0, 48.9, 50.0, 49.4, 49.9, 50.4, 54.7, 54.8, 56.1)
Vista 22.4( 21.9, 22.1, 22.9, 22.4, 24.1, 24.3, 24.6, 23.4, 24.8)
Windows-7 11.4 (10.4, 9.7, 9.3, 8.0, 7.3, 6.1, 5.3, 4.2, 3.4, 2.8) 
Other Windows 2.5 (2.7, 4.0, 4.0, 4.3, 4.0, 3.5, 3.9, 3.9, 3.2, 3.0)
Mac 11.2 (10.4, 10.4, 10.0, 10.2, 10.1, 10.6, 10.1, 9.6, 9.5, 9.2)
iPhone 2.4 (2.1, 1.9, 2.1, 1.8, 2.0, 2.1, 2.3, 1.4, 1.4, 1.3, 1.1)
Other Mobiles 2.0 (1.8, 1.7, 1.5, 1.7, 1.6, 2.0, 1.9, 1.5, 1.5, 1.3)
Linux 1.4 (1.4, 1.3, 1.2, 1.4, 1.5, 1.5, 1.6, 1.3, 1.3, 1.2, 1.4) 

At 11.4% Windows-7 is now well over the 10% mark, 
and every measurement higher than the previous one.

The cake has grown bigger.  It used to be just the desktop, 
but now it includes mobile devices.

With the iPhone, Mac has a slice of cake bigger than all other 
brands of smart phones put together.  Microsoft is not doing 
well in the mobile field at all, either hardware or software.

The total sample size was a 16386 visits by humans.


Browser Breakup
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Percentages of visits for the period 1st to 15th April 2010:-

IE 52.3 (55.3, 57.6, 56.8, 57.2, 56.1, 57.0, 55.7, 60.0, 59.9, 60.0)
FF 26.0 (25.4, 23.5, 24.1, 24.9, 25.3, 24.4, 25.1, 24.1, 24.5, 24.8)  
Safari 11.5 (9.8, 9.6, 9.6, 9.8, 9.2, 9.7, 10.2, 10.5, 8.6, 8.4, 8.1)
Chrome 6.3 (5.9, 5.4, 5.7, 5.1, 5.1, 4.6, 5.1, 3.9, 3.9, 4.0, 3.2)
Opera 1.7 (1.5, 1.7, 1.5, 1.4, 1.5, 1.6, 1.4, 1.5, 1.6, 1.5, 1.9)
All Others 2.2 (2.1, 2.2, 2.1, 2.1, 2.3, 2.1, 2.2, 1.8, 1.7, 1.5)
  
Everything is up except for IE.

Safari, which includes the bulk of Mac computers plus the iPhone,
appears to be the big winner.  However, the previous figure 
was probably a little low as it did not include the iMac.

Once again, the Firefox figure is the highest ever measured.

The sample size was 16137 visits by humans.
 
Search Engines Share
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Percentage breakup of visits coming via search engines 
for April 1st to 15th, 2010:-

Google 90.1 (90.6, 89.1, 90.1, 89.6, 89.5, 88.1, 89.5, 88.0, 88.4)
Yahoo 4.4 (4.5, 4.9, 4.2, 4.5, 4.8, 5.9, 5.1, 4.6, 5.5, 5.8, 6.1)
Microsoft 2.7 (2.5, 3.5, 3.0, 3.1, 2.7, 3.0, 2.8, 4.0, 3.3, 3.9)
All others 2.7 (2.4, 2.6, 2.7, 2.8, 3.0, 2.9, 2.6, 3.3, 2.8, 2.6)

I got a newsletter recently that said the homepage was dead, yet
companies keep re-designing theirs over and over.  This is true; 
the newsletter explained how search engines now send visitors 
right to relevant page, bypassing the homepage entirely.
What's even worse for home page designers, the visitors actually 
don't want flashing animations, adverts, irrelevant offers,
fake testimonials, women with cheesy smiles using the product 
or marketing blurbs about nothing very much.

Long live search engines for getting us past all this rubbish.
   
The sample size was 12099 searches.

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