Latest Stats as at 4/11/2010.
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These figures cover the 16-day period 16/10/2010 to 31/10/2010.

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Introduction
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The latest figures put Windows-7 on 19.7% and Vista 
on 17.0% market share.  The gap widens a little each week.  

With a sudden (and unexplained) surge in popularity, Microsoft's 
Bing has passed the slowly-declining Yahoo.


Operating System Market Share
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For the period 16th to 31st October 2010, these percentage figures 
are based on visits, with earlier figures in brackets:-

XP 43.6 (44.7, 45.0, 45.0, 45.1, 46.2, 47.4, 46.3, 48.8, 47.4, 48.8)
Vista 17.0 (17.1, 17.1, 18.0, 18.3, 17.7, 17.5, 19.0, 18.9,  20.1)
Windows-7 19.7 (19.5, 18.2, 18.1, 17.9, 16.4, 16.1, 14.7, 14.1, 13.5) 
Other Windows 2.4 (2.5, 2.4, 2.3, 2.5, 2.4, 2.7, 2.9, 2.6, 2.6, 2.8)
Mac 10.6 (10.0, 10.9, 10.4, 10.2, 11.2, 10.6, 11.0, 10.4, 11.0, 11.0)
iPhone etc 3.3 (3.0, 3.4, 3.1, 2.8, 2.9, 2.5, 2.7, 2.1, 1.9, 1.7, 1.8)
Other Mobiles 2.4 (2.2, 2.1, 2.0, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 1.9, 2.1, 2.2, 1.8)
Linux 0.9 (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 132 
iPad and 107 iPod visits, compared with 538 iPhone visits.  

Nokia and Blackberry are going strong followed by Android phones.  
The front runners with new Android models are Samsung, SonyEricsson 
and the Chinese company HTC.  Motorola and LG are not doing so well.

The total sample size was 23430 visits by humans.  


Browser Breakup
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Percentages of visits for the period 16th to 31st October 2010:-

IE 54.3 (55.5, 55.0, 54.0, 53.2, 53.2, 52.9, 51.7, 53.3, 52.4, 54.6)
FF 21.5 (21.5, 21.5, 22.4, 24.1, 23.5, 25.0, 25.3, 25.0, 25.7, 24.4)  
Safari 12.0 (11.6, 12.6, 11.5, 10.9, 11.9, 11.1, 11.5, 10.3, 11.0)
Chrome 8.9 (8.3, 7.7, 8.2, 7.8, 7.4, 7.3, 8.1, 7.8, 7.3, 6.9, 6.6)
Opera 1.8 (1.7, 1.7, 1.9, 2.0, 1.8, 1.7, 1.5, 1.6, 1.7, 1.7, 1.6)
All Others 1.5 (1.5, 1.5, 2.1, 1.9, 2.2, 2.0, 1.9, 1.9, 1.9, 2.0)
  
Firefox is losing market share to Safari and Chrome.  
IE is fairly steady; my theory here is that the punters now 
find IE8 "good enough" and don't bother with installing Firefox 
like they did last year.

The sample size was 23977 visits by humans.

 
Search Engines Share
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Percentage breakup of visits coming via search engines 
for October 16th to 31st, 2010:-

Google 88.4 (90.2, 90.5, 90.7, 91.2, 90.0, 90.1, 89.8, 90.6, 91.1)
Yahoo 3.3 (3.2, 3.3, 3.3, 3.4, 4.6, 4.5, 4.5, 3.9, 3.7, 3.7, 3.7)
Bing 4.2 (2.9, 2.9, 3.2, 2.6, 3.1, 2.9, 2.8, 3.0, 2.9, 3.7, 3.0)
All others 4.1 (3.7, 3.3, 2.8, 2.8, 2.3, 2.5, 2.9, 2.4, 2.5, 2.8)

Different results this month.  The Google measurement is lower,
and Bing has surged past Yahoo for the first time for many years.

Across the continents, Bing has risen to 10% in USA/Canada against 
6% for Yahoo.  Bing passing Yahoo appears to be a worldwide trend, 
with good results for Bing in Australia at 4% and the UK at 6%.

Bing and Yahoo both remain unpopular in Europe with Google on 94%.

The sample size above was 15812 searches.

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Trivia corner 
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Further to the news about the death of Koko, the smoking gorilla,
the search for his pictures has subsided to about 70% of the 
peak, with only 14 searches in the last week.

Meanwhile the search for fat girls smoking, thin girls smoking, 
pregnant girls smoking and ugly girls smoking continues unabated.
 
On a brighter note, Sculpture by the Sea has commenced and
many people are searching for this topic, despite the bad weather.
Quite a few people want to know the distance from Bondi to 
Tamarama, whilst one searcher even asked about the coastal walk 
from Cronulla to Bondi. 

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