Latest Stats as at 10/8/2012 ============================ These figures cover the 16-day period 16/7/2012 to 31/7/2012. This time, a more typical result. The previous figures showing an increase for smartphones and a drop for Windows 7 have not been repeated. Note (once again) that some companies claiming to compile network statistics actually measure page views as opposed to the visits given below. Page views are easier to define and measure, but they exclude the huge number of one-hit visits where just a single picture is viewed. Operating System Market Share ============================== For the period 16th to 31st of July, these percentage figures are based on visits, with earlier figures in brackets:- Windows-7 32.5 (30.5, 32.6, 33.0, 32.9, 32.7, 34.4, 32.3) XP 23.3 (21.1, 22.3, 23.0, 26.2, 24.6, 25.0, 19.7, 23.7) Vista 5.4 (5.7, 6.4, 6.8, 6.6, 6.6, 6.4, 7.7, 7.4, 7.3, 7.5) Pre-XP Windows 0.9 (1.0, 0.9, 1.0, 1.0, 0.8, 1.0, 1.0, 1.1) Mac 12.4 (12.0, 12.3, 12.4, 11.4, 12.1, 11.4, 12.6, 12.5) iPhone etc 18.2 (21.4, 18.1, 17.2, 15.5, 16.0, 15.8, 19.4) Android 3.7 (4.2, 3.5, 3.1, 2.9, 3.3, 3.0, 3.4, 2.9, 2.7) Other Mobiles 2.7 (3.1, 2.9, 3.0, 2.7, 2.9, 2.4, 2.9, 2.9) Linux 0.8 (0.9, 0.8, 0.5, 0.8, 0.8, 0.6, 1.1, 0.8, 0.8, 1.0) Figures have moved to be nearer what they were six weeks ago. Articles from the USA put sales of Androids (all manufacturers) and iPhones (just Apple) as neck and neck. Firstly, I am not seeing these Androids and visits and I have to conclude that they are being used with local apps or to send emails or to tweet, rather than surf the net in the accepted general sense. Secondly, it's difficult to tell Android smartphones from Android tablets, and the waters are now made more muddy by the new small-tablet/large-smartphone products. The Other Mobiles category continues to decline. It comprises mainly Blackberry, Nokia/Symbian and lesser phones using Java. All of these are in decline. Nokia and Blackberry are still selling massive numbers of phones, but managing this decline is difficult, to put it mildly. Smartphones using Windows Mobile as the operating system are starting to appear, but their market share is less than 0.2% so things must be pretty desperate at Nokia. The total sample size above was 18097. Browser Breakup =============== Percentages of visits for the period 16th to 31st July 2012:- IE 31.3 (28.4, 31.0, 32.0, 36.7, 35.4, 36.2, 30.3, 36.1) Safari 27.0 (30.2, 27.3, 26.4, 23.7, 24.8, 24.1, 28.3, 23.7) Chrome 22.8 (23.1, 22.5, 22.3, 21.2, 21.1, 20.7, 21.5, 20.8) FF 15.0 (14.2, 15.4, 15.5, 14.5, 15.1, 15.6, 16.2, 15.7) Opera 2.3 (2.2, 2.3, 2.2, 2.3, 1.9, 1.9, 2.0, 2.2, 2.2, 2.2) All Others 1.6 (1.9, 1.7, 1.5, 1.6, 1.8, 1.4, 1.9, 1.5, 1.6) Chrome seems to have steadied off. Hard to believe though. Some web measurement companies are putting Chrome ahead of Internet Explorer. Again, hard to believe right now. The sample size was 18258 visits by humans. Search Engines Share ==================== Percentage breakup of visits coming via search engines for July 16th to 31st, 2012:- Google 88.4 (89.6, 90.3, 90.7, 90.8, 88.6, 89.0, 90.2, 89.7) Yahoo 4.6 (4.2, 3.7, 3.4, 3.0, 3.1, 3.5, 3.3, 3.4, 3.2, 3.1) Bing 3.3 (2.9, 3.0, 2.8, 2.9, 3.6, 3.5, 3.2, 3.8, 3.6, 3.3) All others 3.6 (3.3, 3.1, 3.1, 3.4, 4.8, 3.9, 3.3, 3.1, 3.0) A slight decline is now evident for Google across several measurements, with a corresponding increase for Yahoo. It won't be long before the computer press is full of articles about Yahoo's renaissance, and how they are giving Google a run for their money. Actually it's Twitter and Facebook that are copping all the bad publicity lately. Things have gone rather quietly for Google and Microsoft. The number of searches in the sample was 11373. This includes 1617 "not provided" searches via Google. ================================ ===============================