Latest Stats as at 5/9/2011.
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These figures cover the 16-day period 16/8/2011 to 31/8/2011.

Figures for this month are very similar to last month.

The computer news websites are full of speculation about Microsoft,
HP's likely actions after their tablet fiasco, Google's future 
plans for Android after buying Motorola etc etc.

Based on annual revenue, Apple has passed Microsoft and is now 
the largest computer company in the world.  Google is number 
three and is not that far behind Microsoft.

Some figures are given below for which browsers are preferred on 
which operating systems.


Operating System Market Share
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For the period 16th to 31st August 2011, these percentage figures 
are based on visits, with earlier figures in brackets:-

XP 31.4 (31.4, 31.7, 32.7, 35.5, 35.6, 37.4, 37.3, 37.4)
Windows-7 30.7 (29.9, 30.2, 27.5, 27.9, 28.0, 28.2, 26.4) 
Vista 10.5 (11.2, 11.4, 11.7, 10.5, 12.1, 12.1, 12.4, 13.6)
Other Windows 1.2 (1.4, 1.2, 1.7, 1.3, 1.8, 2.0, 1.7, 1.9)
Mac 12.1 (11.6, 10.9, 11.4, 11.0, 11.1, 10.3, 11.5, 11.1)
iPhone etc 8.2 (8.4, 7.9, 8.8, 6.5, 5.6, 4.9, 5.5, 5.5, 4.8)
Android 1.5 (1.7, 1.9, 1.9, 1.9, 1.4, 1.1, 1.1, 1.0, 0.8) 
Other Mobiles 3.3 (3.4, 3.6, 3.4, 4.2, 3.3, 3.0, 3.0, 2.9)
Linux 1.0 (1.0, 1.1, 0.8, 1.1, 1.1, 1.0, 1.0, 0.8, 0.8, 0.6) 

As stated previously, Apple and its iPhone/iPad goes from strength 
to strength.  The Apple share is over 20% for the first time.

The total sample size above was 16514 visits by humans. Visits have 
increased in the last few weeks, the previous figure was 14323.


Browser Breakup
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Percentages of visits for the period 16th to 31st August 2011:-

IE 42.0 (41.2, 39.0, 41.8, 45.4, 47.0, 50.1, 47.8, 49.1)
FF 20.2 (20.4, 23.4, 19.2, 19.0, 19.7, 19.0, 20.2, 20.5)  
Safari 18.5 (18.5, 17.8, 19.5, 16.0, 14.9, 13.4, 15.4, 15.1)
Chrome 15.0 (15.3, 14.9, 15.0, 14.4, 14.3, 13.6, 12.8, 11.7)
Opera 2.4 (2.3, 2.4, 2.3, 2.8, 2.2, 2.0, 1.8, 1.8, 1.4, 2.2)
All Others 2.0 (2.2, 2.5, 2.3, 2.4, 1.8, 1.8, 1.9, 2.0, 1.8)

The gradual decline of IE has halted.  

Perhaps the punters find IE-9 acceptable.

I have read that IE-9 is only available for Windows-7 but I see 
lots of surfers with earlier Windows versions all claiming 
they have IE-9.

Chrome is going spectacularly well with their automatic updating,
with over 85% on already on Chrome 13.  

Meanwhile Firefox has 34% on the latest Firefox 6 but roughly 
30% still stuck at version 3.6.   Some of us are still on
version 3.0.  And despite some website claims to the contrary, 
Windows 98 can only run Firefox 2.

Internet Explorer has about 52% on version 8, 29% on version 7 
and 17% on version 9.

Here are some results for which browsers are used on the various 
operating systems.  Firstly, for Windows XP it's IE 60%, Firefox 24% 
and Chrome 14%.  For Vista it's IE 55%, Firefox 23% and Chrome 22%, 
whilst on Windows-7 it's IE 53%, Firefox 24% and Chrome 22%.  
For pre-XP Windows we have IE 83%, on iPhones/iPads 100% Safari,
and Mac computers Safari 69%, Firefox 20% and Chrome 11%.
Linux is 70% Firefox and the browser on Androids is 87% Safari. 

To cut a long story short, IE is in slow decline, Chrome 
is on the way up and Firefox is static, whilst Safari 
is a large and growing niche market on Apple products.

The sample size was 16563 visits by humans. 


Search Engines Share
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Percentage breakup of visits coming via search engines 
for August 16th to 31st, 2011:-

Google 90.5 (90.6, 90.5, 89.9, 90.6, 90.3, 91.8, 90.9)
Bing 3.6 (3.5, 3.6, 3.7, 3.6, 3.5, 3.2, 3.2, 3.4, 4.3)
Yahoo 3.6 (3.7, 2.8, 3.2, 3.1, 3.0, 2.5, 2.8, 3.1, 3.2)
All others 2.3 (2.2, 3.1, 3.2, 2.6, 3.1, 2.5, 3.1, 3.0)

The sample size above was 11672, up from 9993.

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