Latest Stats as at 8/11/2012
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These figures cover the 15-day period 16/10/2012 to 31/10/2012.

The Safari browser remains ahead of Internet Explorer.

Windows 8 has arrived.


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

Windows-7 35.8 (35.2, 33.8, 34.4, 32.4, 31.7, 32.5) 
XP 17.2 (18.8, 18.2, 19.8, 23.2, 25.0, 23.3, 21.1)
Vista 5.1 (5.2, 5.2, 5.0, 5.1, 4.7, 5.4, 5.7, 6.4)
Pre-XP Windows 0.7 (0.8, 0.7, 0.6, 1.0, 0.9, 0.9)
Windows 8 0.1%
Mac 12.8 (12.8, 12.4, 12.6, 11.3, 11.9, 12.4, 12.0)
iPhone/iPad/iPod 21.1 (19.9, 21.1, 19.7, 19.2, 18.5, 18.2)
Android 4.6 (4.2, 5.0, 3.9, 4.1, 3.5, 3.7, 4.2, 3.5) 
Other Mobiles 2.0 (2.5, 2.8, 3.2, 3.0, 2.9, 2.7, 3.1)
Linux 0.7 (0.7, 0.7, 0.7, 0.7, 0.8, 0.8, 0.9, 0.8)

Windows 8 has arrived.  The exact result is 33 visits or 0.137%.
It appears that all these visits are from desktops or laptops, 
none have been spotted from mobiles as yet.  
The origins of the 33 visits include Australia 11, USA/Canada 12, 
Europe/UK 5 and Asia 3.

For Androids, no useful breakup between smartphones and tablets 
is available.  Other mobiles appears to be in decline, but
Androids added to Other Mobiles is fairly steady.  The real story
here is the iPad, not the Android.

One could argue that Apple on the desktop has reached a plateau.

The total sample size above was 24174.



Browser Breakup
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Percentages of visits for the period 16th to 31st October 2012:-

Safari 30.4 (29.2, 30.2, 29.2, 27.7, 27.6, 27.0, 30.2)
IE 27.2 (27.9, 28.0, 30.0, 31.5, 33.3, 31.3, 28.4)
Chrome 26.4 (26.4, 24.0, 23.0, 23.7, 21.6, 22.8)
Firefox 12.8 (12.7, 13.7, 13.7, 13.2, 13.7, 15.0)
Opera 1.8 (2.3, 2.5, 2.3, 2.1, 2.1, 2.3, 2.2, 2.3)
All Others 1.4 (1.5, 1.6, 1.8, 1.8, 1.7, 1.6, 1.9)

Safari remains ahead of Internet Explorer.  

Chrome with 15 visits, followed by Internet Explorer with 12 
visits, is the browser of choice for Windows 8 early adopters.

The sample size was 24297 visits by humans. 



Search Engines Share
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Percentage breakup of visits coming via search engines 
for October 16th to 31st, 2012:-

Google 89.5 (90.9, 90.4, 90.5, 90.6, 88.7, 88.4, 89.6)
Yahoo 4.1 (3.4, 4.2, 4.0, 3.5, 4.7, 4.6, 4.2, 3.7, 3.4)
Bing 3.3 (2.8, 2.5, 2.9, 2.7, 3.2, 3.3, 2.9, 3.0, 2.8)
All others 3.1 (2.9, 3.0, 2.7, 3.3, 3.3, 3.6, 3.3, 3.1)

The total number of searches in this sample was 16081,  
including 3360 of 14393 searches (23%) via Google where the 
search string was "not provided" allegedly for privacy reasons.

Yahoo and Bing are still not playing this "privacy" game,
not a single instance ever.  

Now, in the first lot of calculations for this section, 
Google fell suddenly to 88.0% and Yahoo rose to 5.7%.  
This was caused by a surge of 265 visits all from different
IP addresses, but all using Yahoo to search for "santa smoking".
These visits were removed for the revised calculations above, 
but there is still a slight drop in Google and a slight rise in
Bing and Yahoo.  I'm suspicious that links like "Hey, look at 
these weird pictures of santa smoking" are actually generating 
Bing and Yahoo searches rather than linking directly to a page.  

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