Latest Stats as at 4/6/2009. ============================ These figures cover the 16-day period 16/5/2009 to 31/5/2009. Something quite startling has happened in the last two weeks. The percentage of XP has plummeted, and the IE percentage has also dropped. I have looked carefully for some error in the results but I have found nothing so far that could explain the drop in XP and the gains for the smaller players. In some other recent results Yahoo jumped from 7.8% up to 10.3% but has now fallen back to 7.0%, the peak remains unexplained. If the figures below are correct then you read it here first. Previous results are in brackets and each figure spans half a month. Vista Market Share ================== For period 16th to 31st May 2009, figures based on visits:- XP 56.0 (was 63.4, 64.0, 64.5, 64.1, 67.3, 66.2, 65.3, 64.1, 64.7) Vista 25.7 (was 22.7, 22.8, 22.1, 20.4, 21.1, 21.1, 20.4, 20.9, 22.0) Other Windows 4.7 (was 4.0, 3.5, 3.7, 5.5, 3.5, 3.6, 4.3, 4.9, 3.3) Windows-7 0.4 (the first measurement separate from Other Windows) Mac 9.0 (was 7.4, 7.1, 7.2, 7.4, 5.9, 6.7, 7.8, 7.9, 7.7) Linux 1.4 (was 1.0, 1.2, 1.0, 1.2, 0.8, 0.9, 1.0, 1.0, 1.2) Others 2.6 (was 1.5, 1.4, 1.5, 1.5, 1.4, 1.5, 1.2, 1.2, 1.1) The XP percentage has dropped dramatically and Vista has gained markedly. Windows-7 is shown for the first time at 0.4% so clearly people are downloading the beta version and trying it. It will cannibalise Vista if the punters like it. Strange: Mac, Linux and Others have all jumped. Internally Microsoft calls Vista Windows NT 6.0 and Windows-7 is called Windows NT 6.1. Perhaps it's just a fix-up after all. Total sample size 13341 visits by humans. Browser Breakup =============== Percentages of visits for the period 16th to 31st May 2009. IE 60.7 (was 62.7, 63.2, 63.9, 66.5, 68.6, 67.0, 67.0, 66.2, 66.0) FF 24.9 (was 26.0, 26.4, 25.7, 24.1, 23.1, 24.0, 22.8, 24.2, 24.5) Safari 6.9 (was 5.9, 5.5, 5.9, 5.4, 4.7, 5.2, 5.9, 6.1, 5.8) Chrome 2.6 (was 1.9, 1.8, 1.6, 1.2, 1.0, 1.3, 1.2, 1.1, 1,4) Opera 2.1 (was 1.7, 1.5, 1.3, 1.1, 1.0, 0.9, 1.3, 1.1, 0.9) All Others 2.9 (was 1.7, 1.5, 1.6, 1.6, 1.5, 1.5, 1.8, 1.3, 1.4) Yet again, it's the lowest figure ever recorded for IE. And all the minor players have sharply increased their shares, leaving Firefox with a decline, not the expected increase. The IE share of 60.7 splits apart to IE8 7.3, IE7 35.6, IE6 15.2 and the earlier versions 2.5. Two years ago IE6 was larger than IE7. Results for Safari include Safari on the iPhone, and the Opera figures include Opera Mini on mobiles. All the glossy ads for Mobile Phones are now flogging phones which have advanced features and can surf the net. On the other hand there have been very few articles on how to design simple web pages for mobiles - designers love clutter. I am trying to correlate the adverts with the brands of mobile phone actually visiting. Unlike normal PCs, mobile phones usually tell you their brand and model number. Some Blackberry models even have WiFi built in - you can sit in Maccas, eat burgers, read your email and twitter about your exciting life. Total sample size 13003 visits by humans. Search Engines Share ==================== Percentage breakup of visits coming via search engines for May 16th to 31st, 2009:- Google 86.6 (was 83.6, 85.6, 87.3, 86.3, 86.8, 85.4, 85.8, 85.5, 82.8) Yahoo 7.0 (was 10.3, 7.8, 6.7, 6.3, 7.1, 8.0, 7.8, 8.0, 10.1) Microsoft 2.8 (was 2.4, 2.8, 2.4, 2.9, 2.3, 2.5, 2.3, 2.3, 2.6) All others 3.5 (was 3.8, 3.8, 3.6, 4.5, 3.8, 4.1, 4.2, 4.1, 4.5) This fortnight Yahoo dropped from 10.3% back to a more likely 7.0%. Microsoft have announced a new search engine called "Bing" to a yawning "seen it all before" media reception - it's well worth reading a few blogs on this topic. The newly-hatched Bing appears to give much the same results as Windows Live, just a bit more frilly, and more "non-linear" in the words of one reviewer. Not sighted yet, but I'm watching. Also there have been no crawlers from Bing - hence it is using existing Microsoft crawls and consequently must be seen more as a re-branding exercise than a search innovation. I'm really jaded by new search engines, each one claiming to be a "google-killer". Last year it was Cuil, this year it's Wolfram Alpha and Bing. Sample size referred by search engines was 5,209. This is 40% of all visits, compared with roughly 37% in 2002. ============================== ==============================