Latest Stats as at 4/11/2009.
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These figures cover the 16-day period 16/10/2009 to 31/10/2009.

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Vista Market Share
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For period 16th to 31st October 2009, these percentage figures 
are based on visits, and some earlier figures are in brackets:-

XP 56.3 (was 57.1, 57.6, 58.3, 57.6, 57.1, 58.1, 58.9, 61.6, 62.1)
Vista 25.8 (was 25.5, 25.4, 25.6, 25.8, 25.6, 25.3, 25.0, 24.9)
Windows-7 1.9 (was 1.5, 1.2, 1.1, 1.0, 0.8, 0.7, 0.9, 0.6, 0.4) 
Other Windows 3.2 (was 3.4, 3.4, 3.8, 3.8, 4.1, 4.1, 4.1, 4.0, 3.7)
Mac 9.2 (was 8.7, 8.7, 8.0, 8.5, 9.0, 8.2, 7.7, 6.3, 6.5, 7.7, 7.0)
Linux 1.4 (was 1.2, 1.2, 1.2, 1.2, 1.4, 1.5, 1.4, 1.1, 1.1, 1.0) 
Mobiles 2.3 (was 2.6, 2.5, 2.1, 2.1, 2.0, 2.1, 2.0, 1.6, 1.6, 1.8)

Only slight change from previous measurements.

The lowest figure ever recorded for XP since its peak, 
and the highest figure ever recorded for Mac.

Pure speculation: That Vista figure of 25.8 might be 
the highest you will ever see.

The total sample size was 16235 visits by humans.
 
Browser Breakup
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Percentages of visits for the period 16th to 31st October 2009:-

IE 60.6 (was 60.6, 60.6, 62.0, 62.0, 62.3, 62.5, 60.7, 64.2, 62.8)
FF 24.6 (was 24.7, 25.7, 24.2, 24.8, 24.1, 23.8, 25.9, 24.9, 25.8)  
Safari 8.0 (was 7.7, 7.7, 7.2, 7.0, 7.5, 6.6, 6.0, 5.4, 5.5, 6.0)
Chrome 3.2 (was 3.5, 2.8, 3.3, 2.6, 2.7, 2.8, 2.9, 2.2, 2.3, 1.9)
Opera 1.9 (was 1.9, 1.7, 1.9, 1.9, 1.8, 2.3, 2.4, 2.0, 2.2, 1.6)
All Others 1.7 (was 1.6, 1.5, 1.4, 1.6, 1.7, 1.9, 2.1, 1.5, 1.5)

The total sample size was 15994 visits by humans.

Search Engines Share
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Percentage breakup of visits coming via search engines 
for October 16th to 31st, 2009:-

Google 87.6 (was 87.5, 88.5, 89.4, 88.0, 87.2, 85.4, 86.1, 86.0, 84.8)
Yahoo 6.1 (was 6.1, 5.8, 5.3, 6.3, 7.0, 7.5, 7.4, 6.5, 7.7, 7.8)
Microsoft 3.4 (was 3.5, 2.8, 2.3, 2.3, 2.5, 3.3, 3.2, 4.2, 3.3, 3.1)
All others 2.9 (was 2.8, 2.9, 3.0, 3.4, 3.3, 3.8, 3.3, 3.2, 4.2, 3.8)

The combined Yahoo/Bing share continues at under 10% of the total.

The sample size here was 12613.

Sculpture By The Sea
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This annual event is now on and runs until 15th November.
The opening day was on Thursday 29th October, 
and there was coverage on the TV news on the Thursday night.  

Here are some figures for searches reaching 
the Bondi Beach Home Page where the wanted search 
included the letters "sculpt"...

Oct 16 5
Oct 17 2
Oct 18 6
Oct 19 8
Oct 20 12
Oct 21 14 
Oct 22 12
Oct 23 12
Oct 24 12
Oct 25 11
Oct 26 13
Oct 27 17
Oct 28 43
Oct 29 58
Oct 30 67
Oct 31 52

These figures show increasing interest in the event, 
in the week prior to the opening day. 

In my experience of looking at search strings,
people respond very quickly to names, places and events 
in the news and especially on TV.  
The interest is very immediate and quite short lived. 

Notice how the October 31st figure is already below the 
figure for October 30th. I don't have any later figures yet, 
but perhaps October 30th was the peak.

Search engines have to cope with people typing the same thing 
in many different ways. In two weeks there were 122 different 
searches containing "sculpt".  They ranged from "sand sculpting 
at bondi beach" to "where is bondi sculpture by the sea" 
but the most common by far was "sculpture by the sea bondi".
It's a very local event since 83% of these searches came 
from within Australia.

Just in passing, I put a fresh page of photos on the 
web site very late on Sunday night and that page 
was indexed in Google by lunchtime on Tuesday.
It appeared as the last entry on the first page. 

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