Latest Stats as at 1/7/2009.
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These figures cover the 15-day period 16/6/2009 to 30/6/2009.

Some important things:

(a) The site is now operating from London instead of Boston.  
There has been a drop of perhaps 15% or 20% in the number of hits 
per day.  The teething period was hell but it seems ok now.

(b) There were no usable log files for the 16th June to the 
22nd June inclusive.  The figures now presented cover the 8 days
from 23rd to 30th June 2009.

Vista Market Share
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For period 23rd to 30th June 2009, figures based on visits, 
and earlier figures in brackets:-

XP 61.6 (was 62.1, 61.8, 63.6, 64.0, 64.5, 64.1, 67.3, 66.2, 65.3)
Vista 24.9 (was 24.6, 24.0, 23.0, 22.8, 22.1, 20.4, 21.1, 21.1, 20.4)
Windows-7 0.6 (was 0.4, 0.4) 
Other Windows 4.0 (was 3.7, 3.3, 3.8, 3.5, 3.7, 5.5, 3.5, 3.6, 4.3)
Mac 6.3 (was 6.5, 7.7, 7.0, 7.1, 7.2, 7.4, 5.9, 6.7, 7.8, 7.9, 7.7)
Linux 1.1 (was 1.1, 1.0, 0.8, 1.2, 1.0, 1.2, 0.8, 0.9, 1.0, 1.0, 1.2) 
Others 1.6 (was 1.6, 1.8, 1.8, 1.4, 1.5, 1.5, 1.4, 1.5, 1.2, 1.2, 1.1)

As previously, Vista is slowly going ahead, but XP is still over 60%.
The newly-hatched Windows 7 might just manage to extend the life 
of the Microsoft Corporation.

The total sample size was 6960 visits by humans (8 days).
 
Browser Breakup
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Percentages of visits for the period 23rd to 30th June 2009.

IE 64.2 (was 62.8, 62.4, 62.7, 63.2, 63.9, 66.5, 68.6, 67.0, 67.0)
FF 24.9 (was 25.8, 26.1, 26.0, 26.4, 25.7, 24.1, 23.1, 24.0, 22.8)  
Safari 5.4 (was 5.5, 6.0, 5.9, 5.5, 5.9, 5.4, 4.7, 5.2, 5.9, 6.1, 5.8)
Chrome 2.2 (was 2.3, 1.9, 1.9, 1.8, 1.6, 1.2, 1.0, 1.3, 1.2, 1.1, 1,4)
Opera 2.0 (was 2.2, 1.6, 1.7, 1.5, 1.3, 1.1, 1.0, 0.9, 1.3, 1.1, 0.9)
All Others 1.5 (was 1.5, 1.9, 1.7, 1.5, 1.6, 1.6, 1.5, 1.5, 1.8)

Chrome and Opera have both stayed above the 2% barrier.

The total sample size was 6692 visits by humans (8 days).

Search Engines Share
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Percentage breakup of visits coming via search engines 
for June 23rd to 30th, 2009:-

Google 86.0 (was 84.8, 85.4, 83.6, 85.6, 87.3, 86.3, 86.8, 85.4, 85.8)
Yahoo 6.5 (was 7.7, 7.8, 10.3, 7.8, 6.7, 6.3, 7.1, 8.0, 7.8, 8.0, 10.1)
Microsoft 4.2 (was 3.3, 3.1, 2.4, 2.8, 2.4, 2.9, 2.3, 2.5, 2.3, 2.3, 2.6)
All others 3.2 (was 4.2, 3.8, 3.8, 3.8, 3.6, 4.5, 3.8, 4.1, 4.2)

Around June 2nd, Microsoft re-badged all their search engines into 
one new engine named "Bing" and embarked on a massive advertising campaign.

Clearly the Microsoft share is up, but really at the expense of Yahoo 
and the other smaller search engines.  The figure for Microsoft is the 
highest this year, and the All Others result is the lowest.  
The sudden decline seen for the smaller search engines may not help 
the long-term health and diversity of the search industry.

The sample size referred by search engines was 3773 (days).

The Bing Blip.
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Bing had a lot of publicity for a few days, but things soon reverted 
to normal.  Most people I talk to have never heard of Bing.

Here are some comparative percentages, with the results 
grouped into periods of three days:-

May 23-24-25: Bing 2.7
May 26-27-28: Bing 4.1
May 29-30-31: Bing 2.7
June 1-2-3: Bing 3.6
June 4-5-6: Bing 3.2
June 7-8-9: Bing 3.4
June 10-11-12: Bing 3.0
June 13-14-15: Bing 3.3
June 16-22: No figures available
June 23-26: Bing 4.1
June 27-30: Bing 4.5

The total number of searches over three or four days is
a bit small for reliable analysis. The accuracy of each 
measurement above is roughly plus or minus 0.4.

The Bing result is up, although hardly relevant when compared 
with Google's market share.  However, when measured at the 
Microsoft servers, traffic is up at least 30% and this will
allow them to charge more for an advertisement on Bing.

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