Latest Stats as at 16/9/2008.
These figures cover the 15-day period 1/9/2008 to 15/9/2008. 


Vista Market Share
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For period 1st to 15th September 2008, figures based on visits:-

XP 70.4 (was 71.6, 71.8)
Vista 17.5 (was 15.9, 15.8)
Other Windows 4.5 (was 4.0, 4.5, 5.6)
Mac 6.0 (was 6.3, 5.8)
Linux 1.2 (was 1.4, 1.4) 
Others 0.4 (was 0.7, 0.6)

A big surge in the measured Vista result in the last two weeks. 
Some new trend has started to do with Vista uptake.
Sudden drop in the "others" category, to my surprise. 
 
 
Browser Breakup
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For period 1-15 September:

IE 69.7 (was 70.5, 71.4 and 72.0)
FF 22.5 (was 21.7, 21.3)  
Safari 4.4 (was 4.8, 4.8)
Opera 0.9 (was 1.0, 1.1)
Chrome 0.8
All Others 1.6 (was 1.9, 1.7)

These figures are based on IP addresses.  

Stats now show Chrome from Google, and have been correctly 
slightly since it did not launch until the 3rd.

Opera and Chrome are very close, and Chrome is gaining ground.  
I predict Chrome will pass Opera in the next two weeks.
Take no notice of articles about the initial surge (and immediate 
decline) of Chrome - that was the geeks going to techie sites 
in the first 48 hours.  I did not see it at all.
Opera is declining slowly, Firefox is marching on steadily.
Microsoft is loosing steadily and that IS big news, clearly 
pro-M$ journos are writing anti-Chrome articles to hide it.

The journos have been writing about the beta of IE8,
and hits from IE8 have jumped in the last two weeks 
(34 hits, previously just one or two). 

Note - the method of calculation has changed slightly, 
in an effort to exclude criminal activity from the results. 
The new result is roughly a 0.1 increase for IE and 
0.1 decrease for "Others".

Just in passing, the use of Firefox on Vista is slightly 
higher than the overall figure, but IE is dominant.  
My figures for browsers on Vista are IE 75%, Firefox 23%, 
Chrome 1%, all others 1%.  
It won't be long before IE has only two thirds.


Firefox 3 Takeup
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FF1 3.4 (was 3.7, 3.8)
FF2 33.8 (was 55.9, 61.2, 65.1, 73.1)
FF3 62.8 (was 40.4, 35.1, 30.5) 

The big takeup continues.  FF3 is now ahead of FF2. Usage of 
FF3 instead of FF2 is especially high on Vista machines. 


Search Engines Share
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September 1st to 15th.

Google 87.8 (was 87.2, 85.7, 86.6, 86.2)
Yahoo 6.8 (was 7.3, 7.3, 8.0, 7.5, 7.8)
Microsoft 1.7 (was 2.0, 3.3, 2.6, 2.1, 2.3)
All others 3.6 (was 3.5, 5.0, 5.0, 3.7, 3.7)

Google continues to increase and Yahoo and M$ continue to decline.  
This is the lowest figure ever recorded for M$,
even lower than 2 weeks ago. And the expected bad press
has not happened. 

Also the lowest figure ever recorded for Yahoo.  People
are voting with their feet. 

As said before, neither M$ nor Yahoo seem to be able 
to figure out what Google is doing right.  


Linux Distro Analysis
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Nothing to report.


Hacker Analysis
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Criminals cause a disproportionate number of hits, but it's 
still only about 2.5% of the total (not 1% as previously stated), 
and quite unlike the 80% or more of spam in everyone's email.

Initially I thought Opera was the "browser of choice" for 
criminals, but it has turned out that just two Opera users 
have made a large number of hits (in just two visits) 
and have put a large number of errors into the log.  

In fact, many crims seems to be using very old programs where
their robots pretend to be Netscape 4 or IE 5.  

A search engine robot named MedixBot attempted to interate 
through my site using faulty code at their end, and consequently 
called for hundreds of files with wrong names, chock full of 
extra slashes.  Some little programmer should get the sack.

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