Latest Stats as at 13/10/2011.
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These figures cover the 15-day period 16/9/2011 to 30/9/2011.

The latest figures now have Windows-7 clearly ahead of 
Windows XP and Safari clearly ahead of Firefox.  


Operating System Market Share
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For the period 16th to 30th September 2011, these percentage figures 
are based on visits, with earlier figures in brackets:-

Windows-7 31.7 (31.4, 30.7, 29.9, 30.2, 27.5, 27.9, 28.0, 28.2) 
XP 29.7 (30.5, 31.4, 31.4, 31.7, 32.7, 35.5, 35.6, 37.4, 37.3)
Vista 10.2 (10.7, 10.5, 11.2, 11.4, 11.7, 10.5, 12.1, 12.1, 12.4)
Other Windows 1.7 (1.6, 1.2, 1.4, 1.2, 1.7, 1.3, 1.8, 2.0, 1.7)
Mac 12.0 (12.1, 12.1, 11.6, 10.9, 11.4, 11.0, 11.1, 10.3, 11.5)
iPhone etc 9.0 (8.4, 8.2, 8.4, 7.9, 8.8, 6.5, 5.6, 4.9, 5.5, 5.5)
Android 1.9 (1.7, 1.5, 1.7, 1.9, 1.9, 1.9, 1.4, 1.1, 1.1, 1.0) 
Other Mobiles 2.8 (2.9, 3.3, 3.4, 3.6, 3.4, 4.2, 3.3, 3.0, 3.0)
Linux 0.9 (0.7, 1.0, 1.0, 1.1, 0.8, 1.1, 1.1, 1.0, 1.0, 0.8, 0.8) 

Windows-7 is pulling ahead of XP.

The Apple share remains over 20%.

Linux has recovered to 0.9%


A slow decline in visits from Nokia/Symbian phones continues,
especially when compared with Blackberry visits. 

The total sample size above was 17373.


Browser Breakup
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Percentages of visits for the period 16th to 30th September 2011:-

IE 41.7 (42.4, 42.0, 41.2, 39.0, 41.8, 45.4, 47.0, 50.1)
Safari 19.8 (19.3, 18.5, 18.5, 17.8, 19.5, 16.0, 14.9, 13.4)
FF 18.6 (19.0, 20.2, 20.4, 23.4, 19.2, 19.0, 19.7, 19.0)  
Chrome 16.2 (15.3, 15.0, 15.3, 14.9, 15.0, 14.4, 14.3, 13.6)
Opera 2.0 (2.4, 2.3, 2.4, 2.3, 2.8, 2.2, 2.0, 1.8, 1.8, 1.4)
All Others 1.7 (1.9, 2.0, 2.2, 2.5, 2.3, 2.4, 1.8, 1.8, 1.9)

Safari remains ahead of Firefox, illustrating Australia's love 
affair with Apple products.  Many websites such as 
www.browserwatch.com measure these figures, and in many countries 
Chrome is rated as well above Safari or Firefox.  

Given the figures above, Chrome is expected to pass Firefox 
within three months.

The sample size was 17469 visits by humans. 


Search Engines Share
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Percentage breakup of visits coming via search engines 
for September 16th to 30th, 2011:-

Google 91.1 (89.7, 90.5, 90.6, 90.5, 89.9, 90.6, 90.3, 91.8)
Yahoo 3.5 (4.5, 3.6, 3.7, 2.8, 3.2, 3.1, 3.0, 2.5, 2.8, 3.1)
Bing 2.8 (3.3, 3.6, 3.5, 3.6, 3.7, 3.6, 3.5, 3.2, 3.2, 3.4)
All others 2.6 (2.4, 2.3, 2.2, 3.1, 3.2, 2.6, 3.1, 2.5, 3.1)

Google has rebounded strongly after a previous result at only 89.7%.

This week, another amazing animated Google logo.  These only 
appear for 24 hours, the same technique as poker machines 
paying small rewards intermittently.

Despite endless news stories saying how wonderful they are,
Yahoo and Bing continue to languish.  This really is a one horse 
race when measured globally.  You need to narrow your sights to 
something like "Baidu in China" or "Bing in Corporate America" 
to get some decent results for the smaller players. 

The sample size above was 12520 visits.  This means over 70%
of visits now come via search engines, leaving less than 30%
where the URL is typed, or the user follows on a link 
(either on a web page or in an email).  

Traffic Surges
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Over 1700 people came to look at this pic of a man smoking 
on the toilet:-

http://www.nsma.org.au/pics2006/toilet.jpg

Similarly, another 1700 came to look at Lindy England, 
a soldier who was also a smoker:- 

http://www.nsma.org.au/pics2005/iraqabus.jpg
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