Latest Stats as at 22/10/2010.
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These figures cover the 15-day period 1/10/2010 to 15/10/2010.

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Introduction
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The latest figures put Windows 7 on 19.5% and Vista 
on 17.1% market share.  

Two extremely annoying defects in the processing have 
emerged in the last week:-

Firstly, there has always been a steady trickle of people 
surfing the net with old versions of Netscape and even people 
using Sun workstations, although a few visits does not affect 
the percentage results.  This week it looked like a programming
error, with 4 hits to 4 pages from Sun computers but with zero 
visits.  Checking showed there were actually 140 hits from 
Sun computers, with 136 errors and just 4 successful hits.  

About a dozen IP addresses around the world were involved, 
but they all had the same agent string which included 
the SunOS and Netscape 4.76 and the language [ru].
Yikes, that's Russian; it's nasty robots pretending to be 
normal surfers. 

Second, there was a huge leap in successful visits from iMac 
computers, so huge that the Apple Mac percentage would have 
been 12.2% instead of 10.0% as shown.  

To cut a long story short, checking showed a huge number of visits 
came from only one computer located in America,  and once all 
these visits were excluded calculations were close to normal.


Operating System Market Share
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For the period 1st to 15th October 2010, these percentage figures 
are based on visits, with earlier figures in brackets:-

XP 44.7 (45.0, 45.0, 45.1, 46.2, 47.4, 46.3, 48.8, 47.4, 48.8, 48.6)
Vista 17.1 (17.1, 18.0, 18.3, 17.7, 17.5, 19.0, 18.9,  20.1, 19.5)
Windows-7 19.5 (18.2, 18.1, 17.9, 16.4, 16.1, 14.7, 14.1, 13.5, 12.9) 
Other Windows 2.5 (2.4, 2.3, 2.5, 2.4, 2.7, 2.9, 2.6, 2.6, 2.8, 2.8)
Mac 10.0 (10.9, 10.4, 10.2, 11.2, 10.6, 11.0, 10.4, 11.0, 11.0, 10.6)
iPhone etc 3.0 (3.4, 3.1, 2.8, 2.9, 2.5, 2.7, 2.1, 1.9, 1.7, 1.8)
Other Mobiles 2.2 (2.1, 2.0, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 1.9, 2.1, 2.2, 1.8, 1.8)
Linux 0.8 (0.9, 1.1, 1.1, 1.0, 1.0, 1.5, 1.0, 1.3, 1.4, 1.5, 1.4) 

The "iPhone" result includes both iPods and iPads. There were 130 
iPad and 80 iPod visits, compared with 467 iPhone visits.  

iPads and Android phones are both hot and, if anything, iPod
visits have steadied. 

Android on 89 visits is still behind the Blackberry 
on 99 visits and all phones using Java on 86 visits, 
but Nokia phones appear to be second after Apple with 113 visits.

At 0.8%, the lowest Linux figure ever recorded.

The total sample size was 22467 visits by humans.  


Browser Breakup
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Percentages of visits for the period 1st to 15th October 2010:-

IE 55.5 (55.0, 54.0, 53.2, 53.2, 52.9, 51.7, 53.3, 52.4, 54.6, 54.6)
FF 21.5 (21.5, 22.4, 24.1, 23.5, 25.0, 25.3, 25.0, 25.7, 24.4, 24.7)  
Safari 11.6 (12.6, 11.5, 10.9, 11.9, 11.1, 11.5, 10.3, 11.0, 10.4)
Chrome 8.3 (7.7, 8.2, 7.8, 7.4, 7.3, 8.1, 7.8, 7.3, 6.9, 6.6, 6.2)
Opera 1.7 (1.7, 1.9, 2.0, 1.8, 1.7, 1.5, 1.6, 1.7, 1.7, 1.6, 1.6)
All Others 1.5 (1.5, 2.1, 1.9, 2.2, 2.0, 1.9, 1.9, 1.9, 2.0, 1.8)
  
Hardly any change compared with previous measurements.

The sample size was 22445 visits by humans.

 
Search Engines Share
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Percentage breakup of visits coming via search engines 
for October 1st to 15th, 2010:-

Google 90.2 (90.5, 90.7, 91.2, 90.0, 90.1, 89.8, 90.6, 91.1, 89.8)
Yahoo 3.2 (3.3, 3.3, 3.4, 4.6, 4.5, 4.5, 3.9, 3.7, 3.7, 3.7, 3.8)
Bing 2.9 (2.9, 3.2, 2.6, 3.1, 2.9, 2.8, 3.0, 2.9, 3.7, 3.0, 2.9)
All others 3.7 (3.3, 2.8, 2.8, 2.3, 2.5, 2.9, 2.4, 2.5, 2.8, 2.6)

Both Yahoo and Microsoft's Bing remain in the doldrums.

This year there has been an upsurge in generic searching services.
This means that any site can appear to have their own search engine,
and there seems to be three varieties of this generic searching. 
I have not yet checked to see how it works or who actually provides 
the results, but it does put the Yahoo and Bing brands out of the 
spotlight since "Generic" is now over half of the "Others" group.

The sample size above was 13933 searches.

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Trivia corner: Koko, the gorilla who smokes, died this month at 
a zoo in South Africa.  No, he did not die of lung cancer; 
the zoo said it was old age.  He was about 40.  Beaut videos of
Koko smoking on YouTube.  

Since I have pictures of Koko smoking available on line, this 
earth-shaking news created lots searches for things like 
"ape smoking", "pic of a gorilla smoking" and "smoker chimp".

September, week 1: 7 searches
September, week 2: 12 searches
September, week 3: 7 searches
September, week 4: 8 searches
October, week 1: 22 searches
October, week 2: 22 searches 

People respond quickly to news stories, especially trivia.
Gee, isn't the web wonderful?
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