Latest Stats as at 24/6/2010.
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These figures cover the 15-day period 1/6/2010 to 15/6/2010.

Operating System Market Share
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For the period 1st to 15th June 2010, these percentage figures 
are based on visits, with earlier figures in brackets:-

XP 47.4 (48.8, 48.6, 48.1, 46.6, 49.4, 49.0, 48.9, 50.0, 49.4, 49.9)
Vista 20.1 (19.5, 20.6, 20.8, 22.4, 21.9, 22.1, 22.9, 22.4, 24.1)
Windows-7 13.5 (12.9, 12.3, 11.4, 11.4, 10.4, 9.7, 9.3, 8.0, 7.3, 6.1) 
Other Windows 2.6 (2.8, 2.8, 3.0, 2.5 (2.7, 4.0, 4.0, 4.3, 4.0, 3.5)
Mac 11.0 (11.0, 10.6, 11.6, 11.2, 10.4, 10.4, 10.0, 10.2, 10.1, 10.6)
iPhone 1.9 (1.7, 1.8, 2.0, 2.4, 2.1, 1.9, 2.1, 1.8, 2.0, 2.1, 2.3)
Other Mobiles 2.2 (1.8, 1.8, 1.7, 2.0, 1.8, 1.7, 1.5, 1.7, 1.6, 2.0)
Linux 1.3 (1.4, 1.5, 1.4, 1.4, 1.4, 1.3, 1.2, 1.4, 1.5, 1.5, 1.6) 

The iPhone result includes 35 iPad visits, 
compared with 19 two weeks ago.

The total sample size was a 15605 visits by humans.


Browser Breakup
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Percentages of visits for the period 1st to 15th June 2010:-

IE 52.4 (54.6, 54.6, 54.4, 52.3, 55.3, 57.6, 56.8, 57.2, 56.1, 57.0)
FF 25.7 (24.4, 24.7, 24.5, 26.0, 25.4, 23.5, 24.1, 24.9, 25.3, 24.4)  
Safari 11.0 (10.4, 10.6, 11.5, 11.5, 9.8, 9.6, 9.6, 9.8, 9.2, 9.7)
Chrome 7.3 (6.9, 6.6, 6.2, 6.3, 5.9, 5.4, 5.7, 5.1, 5.1, 4.6, 5.1)
Opera 1.7 (1.7, 1.6, 1.6, 1.7, 1.5, 1.7, 1.5, 1.4, 1.5, 1.6, 1.4)
All Others 1.9 (2.0, 1.8, 1.8, 2.2, 2.1, 2.2, 2.1, 2.1, 2.3, 2.1)
  
Again, that's the highest figure ever for the Chrome browser.

The sample size was 15462 visits by humans.

 
Search Engines Share
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A big problem here.  The previous methods of tallying 
tended to make Google and Microsoft a bit high 
(eg the 3.6% below), and Yahoo a bit low. 

The latest figures below are to a slightly revised method, 
but earlier results have not been corrected. 

Percentage breakup of visits coming via search engines 
for June 1st to 15th, 2010:-

Google 89.7 (89.7, 90.7, 90.5, 90.1, 90.6, 89.1, 90.1, 89.6, 89.5)
Yahoo 4.3 (3.7, 3.7, 3.8, 4.4, 4.5, 4.9, 4.2, 4.5, 4.8, 5.9, 5.1)
Microsoft 3.1 (3.6, 3.0, 2.9, 2.7, 2.5, 3.5, 3.0, 3.1, 2.7, 3.0)
All others 2.9 (2.9, 2.6, 2.8, 2.7, 2.4, 2.6, 2.7, 2.8, 3.0, 2.9)

The sample size above was 12008 searches.

Microsoft has reached a sudden turning point with the 
announcement that their scheme where they actually pay people 
to use Bing will end on 31st July.


Search Engines by Country
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The figures below are based on the earlier method of calculation,
so Yahoo is a little low, Google a little high.

However, the differences between continents remains very clear.

Essentially the overall result as seen here in Australia 
is four quite different distributions added together.

Australia/NZ: Google 95%, Yahoo 2% Microsoft 2%, Others 1%.

USA/Canada: Google 84%, Yahoo 7%, Microsoft 5% and Others 4%.

UK/Ireland: Google 91%, Yahoo 2.0%, Microsoft 3% and Others 4%.

Western Europe: Google 95%, Yahoo 1%, Microsoft 1%, Others 3%.

Microsoft and Yahoo have a much larger market share in North 
America.  No doubt there are segments of the American market 
where Yahoo and Bing do even better, and it is these high 
but unrepresentative figures you will read in the press.  

Yahoo is also popular in Asia, but not Bing at under 1%.

Yahoo and Bing are not popular in Europe.  They are especially 
unpopular in Scandinavian countries.
 
Australian surfers are very pro-Google, and do not support their 
local search engines like in other English-speaking countries.
If you have tried Sensis and WebWombat you will understand why.

More countries analysis next time.
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