Latest Stats as at 19/5/2011.
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These figures cover the 11-day period 1/5/2011 to 11/5/2011.

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Introduction
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The crisis of being hacked on 19th April has passed.
Things were back to normal.

But it was not normal after all.  The data supplied by Hostway, 
the hosting company, for the four days 12-13-14-15th of May
did not load correctly, and these four days turned out to be a 
repeat of the data from 12-13-14-15th February 2011.

This useless data was discarded, leaving an analysis covering 
only 11 days as presented below.


Operating System Market Share
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For the period 1st to 11th May 2011, these percentage figures 
are based on visits, with earlier figures in brackets:-

XP 37.3 (37.4, 39.2, 40.0, 38.9, 39.9, 39.3, 38.2 ,38.2, 41.7)
Windows-7 26.4 (25.8, 26.9, 25.7, 24.8, 23.0, 22.5, 22.0) 
Vista 12.4 (13.6, 13.2, 13.4, 13.6, 13.9, 15.5, 15.5, 15.9)
Other Windows 1.7 (1.9, 1.7, 1.7, 1.6, 1.8, 1.9, 2.3, 2.0)
Mac 11.5 (11.1, 10.4, 10.5, 10.6, 10.7, 10.2, 10.6, 10.4)
iPhone etc 5.5 (5.5, 4.8, 5.1, 5.5, 5.4, 5.9, 6.3, 6.4, 4.2)
Android 1.1 (1.0, 0.8, 0.8, earlier share in Other Mobiles) 
Other Mobiles 3.0 (2.9, 2.2, 2.3, 4.1, 4.4, 4.1, 4.2, 3.7)
Linux 1.0 (0.8, 0.8, 0.6, 0.8, 0.9, 0.7, 0.8, 0.9, 1.0, 0.8) 

The total sample size above was 13122 visits by humans.


Browser Breakup
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Percentages of visits for the period 1st to 11th May 2011:-

IE 47.8 (49.1, 52.4, 49.5, 48.3, 48.0, 47.2, 48.9, 45.2, 52.1)
FF 20.2 (20.5, 19.8, 20.6, 20.9, 22.4, 22.2, 21.1, 24.2, 22.2)  
Safari 15.4 (15.1, 13.9, 14.5, 14.6, 13.4, 14.2, 15.1, 14.7)
Chrome 12.8 (11.7, 10.9, 11.5, 11.5, 10.5, 11.7, 10.5, 10.3)
Opera 1.8 (1.8, 1.4, 2.2, 2.3, 2.7, 2.1, 1.7, 2.0, 1.7, 2.0)
All Others 1.9 (2.0, 1.8, 1.6, 1.7, 2.3, 3.0, 2.6, 2.6)

The sample size was 13239 visits by humans. 

The Safari result includes iPhones etc.

 
Search Engines Share
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Percentage breakup of visits coming via search engines 
for May 1st to 11th, 2011:-

Google 90.9 (90.5, 89.5, 90.2, 91.4, 90.6, 89.7, 89.9, 89.8)
Bing 3.2 (3.4, 4.3, 4.1, 3.5, 3.2, 4.0, 4.3, 3.3, 3.2, 4.0, 3.8)
Yahoo 2.8 (3.1, 3.2, 3.1, 2.7, 3.2, 3.4, 3.4, 3.6, 4.1, 4.0)
All others 3.1 (3.0, 2.9, 2.5, 2.4, 2.8, 2.9, 2.5, 3.3, 2.8)

The sample size above was 8531 searches.

Currently around 65% of visits come via search engines, or 
putting it more bluntly 59% come via Google.
The remainder seem to be people following links in newsletters, 
emails and forums, often looking at only a single picture.

The internet has changed over the years.  The days when every 
site had their pages of suggested links have gracefully passed.

A recent magazine article comments how we have "out-sourced" all
that remembering to Google. So, who was Bindi Paxton who once 
did a Playboy centrefold?

I have pretty much stopped bookmarking interesting web sites,
partly because the bookmarking function has become so tedious 
to use but mainly because Google does it better.

Google knows all manner of strange things.  
Look at these searches that people have actually typed.  
All sorts of mysterious slang....

train cross to bondi
girls talk chords and lyrics
cigarette after sex joke
chav trackies girl
nanny state tasmania
rolo pics
no city limits southgate
roanoke pregnant smoker
jackhammer unborn child
cake for 100
waiting sheds
pia rokit
fotos lara flynn
mod cons australia 1950s
koko ape
pikey chavs
roy sando
bridge footway
ab diaper girls
cats smoking gifs
woman rowing the boat
pictures of eight ball
eightballaitken
kitty roy
chav skum
magiares
400 bondi junction
twin neck steel

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