Latest Stats as at 3/6/2013
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These figures cover the 16 day period 16/5/2013 to 31/5/2013.

This 16 day period includes 4 weekend days and 12 weekdays,
giving a slight bias away from tablets and smartphones.
 
Windows-8 has moved up to 3.7% after almost seven months. 

See below for the latest hardware breakup.

Operating System Market Share
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For the period 16th to 31st of May, these percentage 
figures are based on visits, with earlier figures in brackets:-

Windows-7 33.6 (33.7, 32.7, 30.7, 32.3, 34.9) 
XP 11.3 (11.1, 11.5, 11.3, 10.5, 13.6, 17.7)
Vista 3.4 (3.7, 3.6, 3.7, 3.6, 4.3, 4.1, 4.5)
Windows-8 3.7 (3.5, 3.2, 3.2, 2.9, 2.5, 2.4)
Pre-XP Windows 0.7 (0.7, 0.8, 0.6, 0.8, 0.7)
Mac 10.4 (10.2, 11.3, 12.3, 11.6, 11.9, 12.3)
iPhone/iPad/iPod 25.9 (26.8, 26.8, 25.8, 28.1)
Android 8.2 (7.6, 7.6, 9.4, 7.4, 6.1, 4.6, 5.5) 
WinPhone 0.2 (0.3, 0.2, 0.2, 0.2, 0.2, 0.2)
Other Mobiles 1.6 (1.7, 1.4, 2.0, 1.6, 1.7)
Linux 1.0 (0.8, 0.9, 0.7, 0.9, 0.8, 0.8, 0.6)

Windows-8 is growing, but very slowly. 
It has gone from 0.1% to 3.7% in roughly six months.

The trend for the last two years shows smartphones and 
tablets elbowing their way onto the internet at the expense 
of laptops and desktop computers.  

However, the visits from phones and tablets seem to be 
shorter, often only a single image is viewed.

The total sample size above was 22790.


Browser Breakup
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Percentages of visits for the period 16th to 31st May 2013:-

Safari 31.9 (32.9, 34.0, 33.8, 35.5, 31.2, 27.8)
Chrome 33.3 (31.7, 31.1, 31.3, 30.9, 30.7, 30.9)
IE 20.1 (21.4, 20.8, 19.1, 19.6, 23.7, 26.3, 26.6)
Firefox 10.1 (9.7, 9.8, 10.4, 10.3, 10.4, 10.8)
Opera 1.9 (1.8, 1.6, 2.0, 1.7, 2.0, 2.3, 2.4)
All Others 2.6 (2.6, 2.7, 3.4, 2.1, 2.0, 1.9)

Chrome has passed Safari.

The sample size was 22880 visits by humans. 


Search Engines Share
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Percentage breakup of visits coming via search engines 
for May 16th to 31st, 2013:-

Google 88.1 (86.9, 86.1, 87.4, 87.9, 87.3, 87.8, 87.0)
Bing  6.6 (7.2, 7.4, 6.8, 6.5, 6.3, 5.4, 5.1, 5.6)
Yahoo 3.1 (3.4, 3.6, 3.1, 3.3, 3.6, 3.8, 4.4, 4.0)
All others 2.2 (2.5, 2.9, 2.8, 2.3, 2.8, 2.9, 3.5)

Visits via Google Images are still well down, but visits 
via the standard Google web search have surged.  
Google has bounced back.

Users quite like Bing Images as an alternative to Google Images.
The two design teams much be watching this very closely.

I don't see visits that have come via Google Maps very often,
but this is another area to watch as Google is redesigning
the interface, rolling out more countries, and providing
images for users to explore inside shopping centres, museums  
and art galleries etc.  They have to pay Google of course.

The total number of searches in this sample was 13888, 
including 5769 of 12233 searches (47%) via Google where the 
search string was suppressed allegedly for privacy reasons. 
This figure is up from 44%.  Chrome on Windows 7 is now 74% 
suppressed, whilst Chrome on Android is only 9% suppressed. 

The Search-Engine-Optimisation industry is gradually being 
strangled.  Unless they pay Google of course. 


Hardware Report
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The results from a sample of 8071 visits are Android 23% 
(up from 21%), iPhone 43%, iPad 27%, iPod 3%, Others 3% 
and Winphones 0.6%. 

Within the 23% Android, about 55% 
(up from 53%) of the visits are from Samsung products, 
HTC is next on about 9%.  Motorola, LG and Sony are all 
around 5% each but accurate analysis of the Android market 
is made difficult by generic Android phones and tablets 
which do not name their maker, other than just "Android".
  
The "Others" category, which many writers now call feature 
phones, is dropping quickly.  Goodbye to Nokia's Symbian 
and a slow goodbye to the Blackberry operating system too.

The tiny Winphone market is roughly 70% Nokia and 20% HTC.

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