Latest Stats as at 19/5/2010. ============================ These figures cover the 15-day period 1/5/2010 to 15/5/2010. Operating System Market Share ============================== For the period 1st to 15th May 2010, these percentage figures are based on visits, with earlier figures in brackets:- XP 48.6 (48.1, 46.6, 49.4, 49.0, 48.9, 50.0, 49.4, 49.9, 50.4, 54.7) Vista 20.6 (20.8, 22.4, 21.9, 22.1, 22.9, 22.4, 24.1, 24.3, 24.6) Windows-7 12.3 (11.4, 11.4, 10.4, 9.7, 9.3, 8.0, 7.3, 6.1, 5.3, 4.2) Other Windows 2.8 (3.0, 2.5 (2.7, 4.0, 4.0, 4.3, 4.0, 3.5, 3.9, 3.9) Mac 10.6 (11.6, 11.2, 10.4, 10.4, 10.0, 10.2, 10.1, 10.6, 10.1, 9.6) iPhone 1.8 (2.0, 2.4, 2.1, 1.9, 2.1, 1.8, 2.0, 2.1, 2.3, 1.4, 1.4) Other Mobiles 1.8 (1.7, 2.0, 1.8, 1.7, 1.5, 1.7, 1.6, 2.0, 1.9, 1.5) Linux 1.5 (1.4, 1.4, 1.4, 1.3, 1.2, 1.4, 1.5, 1.5, 1.6, 1.3, 1.3) The iPhone result includes 12 iPad visits. The total sample size was a 16391 visits by humans. Browser Breakup =============== Percentages of visits for the period 1st to 15th May 2010:- IE 54.6 (54.4, 52.3, 55.3, 57.6, 56.8, 57.2, 56.1, 57.0, 55.7, 60.0) FF 24.7 (24.5, 26.0, 25.4, 23.5, 24.1, 24.9, 25.3, 24.4, 25.1, 24.1) Safari 10.6 (11.5, 11.5, 9.8, 9.6, 9.6, 9.8, 9.2, 9.7, 10.2, 10.5) Chrome 6.6 (6.2, 6.3, 5.9, 5.4, 5.7, 5.1, 5.1, 4.6, 5.1, 3.9, 3.9) Opera 1.6 (1.6, 1.7, 1.5, 1.7, 1.5, 1.4, 1.5, 1.6, 1.4, 1.5, 1.6, 1.5) All Others 1.8 (1.8, 2.2, 2.1, 2.2, 2.1, 2.1, 2.3, 2.1, 2.2, 1.8, 1.7) That's the highest figure ever for Google's Chrome browser. The sample size was 16091 visits by humans. Search Engines Share ==================== Percentage breakup of visits coming via search engines for May 1st to 15th, 2010:- Google 90.7 (90.5, 90.1, 90.6, 89.1, 90.1, 89.6, 89.5, 88.1, 89.5) Yahoo 3.7 (3.8, 4.4, 4.5, 4.9, 4.2, 4.5, 4.8, 5.9, 5.1, 4.6, 5.5) Microsoft 3.0 (2.9, 2.7, 2.5, 3.5, 3.0, 3.1, 2.7, 3.0, 2.8, 4.0) All others 2.6 (2.8, 2.7, 2.4, 2.6, 2.7, 2.8, 3.0, 2.9, 2.6, 3.3) Above is the highest figure ever recorded for Google, and the lowest ever for Yahoo. The once-mighty Yahoo is in serious decline, although it's still much larger than other old-timers such as Ask and AOL. Yahoo mail charges subscribers for things that Google's gmail gives away for free. The Yahoo news page is just like dozens of others - three columns of clutter, distractions, trivia and gossip. Prediction: Within a year, Yahoo will be below Microsoft in market share. Watch the knives come out then. Today I foolishly clicked on a Yahoo news story and my computer locked up - I had to kill my browser before I could continue. A man had been struck by a 23 Kg rock - gosh, after 39 years of metrication, that's still a 50 lb rock. The sample size above was 12861 searches. ============================ =============================