Latest Stats as at 18/5/2013 ============================= These figures cover the 15 day period 1/5/2013 to 15/5/2013. This 15 day period includes 4 weekend days and 11 weekdays, giving a slight bias away from tablets and smartphones. Windows-8 has moved up to 3.5% after six months. As explained below, Nokia is finally making an impact. Operating System Market Share ============================== For the period 1st to 15th of May, these percentage figures are based on visits, with earlier figures in brackets:- Windows-7 33.7 (32.7, 30.7, 32.3, 34.9, 35.2, 35.1) XP 11.1 (11.5, 11.3, 10.5, 13.6, 17.7, 18.5, 16.9) Vista 3.7 (3.6, 3.7, 3.6, 4.3, 4.1, 4.5, 4.4, 4.7) Windows-8 3.5 (3.2, 3.2, 2.9, 2.5, 2.4, 2.2, 1.9) Pre-XP Windows 0.7 (0.8, 0.6, 0.8, 0.7, 0.8, 0.8) Mac 10.2 (11.3, 12.3, 11.6, 11.9, 12.3, 12.3) iPhone/iPad/iPod 26.8 (26.8, 25.8, 28.1, 23.5) Android 7.6 (7.6, 9.4, 7.4, 6.1, 4.6, 5.5, 5.5) WinPhone 0.3 (0.2, 0.2, 0.2, 0.2, 0.2, 0.4, 0.2) Other Mobiles 1.7 (1.4, 2.0, 1.6, 1.7, 2.0, 2.1) Linux 0.8 (0.9, 0.7, 0.9, 0.8, 0.8, 0.6, 0.7) Windows-8 is still growing slowly. It has gone from 0.1% to 3.5% in 26 weeks. Where is the Start Button? Since Windows 8 is the only Windows version I can find for a new laptop or desktop in the shops, one would have to assume the sales of these new items has stalled. And nobody is converting their home computer from Windows 7 to Windows 8. Not good news for Apple neither - it looks like the sales of standard Mac laptops and desktops has stalled too. The total sample size above was 19726. Browser Breakup =============== Percentages of visits for the period 1st to 15th May 2013:- Safari 32.9 (34.0, 33.8, 35.5, 31.2, 27.8, 27.1) Chrome 31.7 (31.1, 31.3, 30.9, 30.7, 30.9, 30.2) IE 21.4 (20.8, 19.1, 19.6, 23.7, 26.3, 26.6, 25.9) Firefox 9.7 (9.8, 10.4, 10.3, 10.4, 10.8, 11.9) Opera 1.8 (1.6, 2.0, 1.7, 2.0, 2.3, 2.4, 2.4, 2.0) All Others 2.6 (2.7, 3.4, 2.1, 2.0, 1.9, 1.8, 2.4) Safari remains ahead of Chrome but not by very much. The sample size was 19817 visits by humans. Search Engines Share ==================== Percentage breakup of visits coming via search engines for May 1st to 15th, 2013:- Google 86.9 (86.1, 87.4, 87.9, 87.3, 87.8, 87.0) Bing 7.2 (7.4, 6.8, 6.5, 6.3, 5.4, 5.1, 5.6) Yahoo 3.4 (3.6, 3.1, 3.3, 3.6, 3.8, 4.4, 4.0) All others 2.5 (2.9, 2.8, 2.3, 2.8, 2.9, 3.5) A plausible explanation for the drop in Google and the rise in Bing has been found. Webmasters have been writing on blogs that their hits via Google Images have dropped substantially and their pages are not getting the much-deserved attention. Not quite true. Google has recently re-designed Google Images. In the previous version when you clicked on a thumbnail, you were shown the larger image and the page it came from. In the latest version, it appears Google is serving the big images straight off its own server. There is a button to click if you want to go to the actual page. To the end user it's pretty much the same, but the webmasters see far less activity. This is exactly what I am seeing. Between January and March visits from Google Images more than halved, while plain Google stayed much the same. It's not a big deal - Google Images is less than 10% of plain Google. Over the same period, visits via Bing Images doubled whilst Bing itself remained constant. Bing Images now generates twice the visits of plain Bing and clearly this has lifted the overall Bing result as shown above. It's just speculation, but perhaps people prefer the Bing Images display. It's an easy-to-work slideshow with thumbnails underneath. By comparison the Google Images display needs more scrolling. Try them both and decide for yourself. The total number of searches in this sample was 12187, including 4666 of 10587 searches (44%) via Google where the search string was suppressed allegedly for privacy reasons. But 44% is just the average - Chrome on Windows 7 is 71% suppressed, whilst Chrome on Android is only 3% suppressed. Hardware Report =============== The results from a sample of 7077 visits are Android 21%, iPhone 45%, iPad 27%, iPod 3%, Others 4% and WinPhones 0.7%. Within the 21% Android, about 53% of the visits are from Samsung products, HTC is next on about 10%. Things are changing rapidly for Nokia, and might even be looking up. Nokia phones using the Nokia/Symbian operating systems are in sharp decline, but the Nokia WinPhone visits have grown rapidly and are now roughly equal to the previous generation. The earlier Nokia phones are rapidly being discarded. Only HTC, Samsung and Nokia seem to be selling WinPhones, but Samsung WinPhones are very rare (who would bother, when Samsung is the top selling Android by a wide margin). =============================== ============================