Latest Stats as at 21/10/2013 ============================= These figures cover the 15 day period 1/10/2013 to 15/10/2013. As explained below, these figures have been disrupted by two events. Operating System Market Share ============================== For the period 1st to 15th of October, these percentage figures are based on visits, with earlier figures in brackets:- Windows-7 32.8 (30.1, 29.7, 29.9, 30.2, 30.7, 30.5, 32.2) XP 8.9 (8.7, 8.3, 8.6, 8.9, 9.3, 9.4, 10.0, 10.0, 11.3) Windows-8 5.6 (5.0, 4.8, 4.3, 4.6, 4.2, 3.9, 4.0, 4.0) Vista 2.8 (2.6, 2.7, 2.8, 2.8, 3.1, 3.2, 3.4, 3.7, 3.4) Pre-XP Windows 1.6 (0.9, 0.9, 0.8, 0.8, 0.6, 0.7, 0.7) Mac 10.2 (10.2, 10.5, 10.3, 10.5, 9.3, 9.5, 10.1, 10.2) iPhone/iPad/iPod 25.6 (30.4, 31.0, 31.5, 30.3, 29.7, 31.3) Android 9.9 (9.4, 9.1, 9.1, 9.0, 10.5, 9.1, 8.8, 8.3) WinPhone 0.3 (0.2, 0.3, 0.3, 0.2, 0.3, 0.2, 0.2, 0.2) Other Mobiles 1.7 (1.7, 1.7, 1.8, 1.6, 1.6, 1.5, 1.6) Linux 0.7 (0.9, 1.0, 0.9, 1.0, 0.6, 0.7, 0.6, 1.0) Even after correction, these figures are next-to-useless for two reasons:- (i) There was a huge but unexplained drop in the number of visits from iPhones/iPads. No explanation yet. (ii) There has been a surge in visits from ancient computers, especially Windows 2000, 2003 and NT. This covers many countries and many IP addressees, but clearly they are all acting in unison somehow. I have managed to exclude many of these visits as rogues, but this is an ongoing task. I already exclude all Pre-XP visits from The Ukraine and China!!! Clearly the true figure for pre-XP is under 1.0%. Desktops/Laptops 63% and Mobiles/Tablets 37%. The total sample size above was 26089. Browser Breakup =============== Percentages of visits for the period 1st to 15th October 2013:- Safari 31.5 (36.2, 37.0, 37.4, 35.5, 34.8, 36.5, 34.1) Chrome 35.4 (31.5, 31.7, 31.1, 33.7, 33.3, 33.5, 32.9) IE 19.1 (18.2, 17.5, 17.5, 16.8, 17.0, 16.4, 17.3) Firefox 9.1 (9.1, 9.4, 9.4, 9.4, 8.8, 9.0, 10.5, 10.5) Opera 1.8 (1.9, 1.6, 1.8, 1.7, 2.0, 1.9, 2.1, 1.8, 1.9) All Others 3.1 (3.1, 2.8, 3.0, 2.9, 4.0, 2.7, 3.2, 3.0) The drop in visits from iPhones/iPads causes a corresponding drop in the result for the Safari browser. When the percentages are calculated, it looks like all the other browsers have jumped. But, in actual visits, the use of Chrome (for example) has not increased. Not a helpful outcome. The sample size was 26429 visits by humans. Browser Breakup for Desktops/Laptops ==================================== Chrome 43.4 (40.2, 40.9) IE 29.5 (30.8, 29.6) Firefox 14.5 (15.6, 15.9) Safari 9.1 (9.6, 10.3) Opera 0.9 (1.4, 1.2) All Others 2.5 (2.4, 2.1) The sample size above was 16383 visits by humans. Browser Breakup for Mobiles/Tablets =================================== Safari 69.8 (74.2, 74.7) Chrome 22.5 (19.1, 18.9) Opera 3.1 (2.5, 2.1) IE 0.6 (0.6, 0.6) Firefox 0.3 (0.1, 0.2) All Others 3.7 (3.5, 3.5) The sample size above was 9706 visits by humans. Search Engines Share ==================== Percentage breakup of visits coming via search engines for October 1st to 15th, 2013:- Google 89.1 (88.1, 89.6, 89.6, 89.1, 87.6, 87.3) Bing 6.0 (6.5, 5.5, 5.5, 5.7, 6.5, 6.2, 6.5, 5.7) Yahoo 3.1 (3.4, 3.2, 3.4, 3.5, 3.8, 4.4, 3.7, 3.4) All others 1.8 (2.0, 1.7, 1.5, 1.7, 2.1, 2.1, 1.9) My theory is that whenever Bing and Yahoo stop their advertising and campaigning, their market share slips. Nevertheless, Bing has doubled its market share in the last five years and it's now a three horse race, with the "Others" category mostly under 2%. The total number of searches in this sample was 15972, including 11464 of 14231 searches (81%) via Google where the search string was suppressed, allegedly for privacy reasons. Compared with a year ago, analysis of search strings for keywords is pretty much useless. This 81% figure above is up from 65% six weeks ago and 27% at the start of the year. =============================== ============================