Latest Stats as at 23/11/2012
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These figures cover the 15-day period 1/11/2012 to 15/11/2012.

Both Safari and Chrome are now ahead of Internet Explorer.

Windows 8 is growing.


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

Windows-7 36.2 (35.8, 35.2, 33.8, 34.4, 32.4, 31.7, 32.5) 
XP 16.5 (17.2, 18.8, 18.2, 19.8, 23.2, 25.0, 23.3, 21.1)
Vista 5.2 (5.1, 5.2, 5.2, 5.0, 5.1, 4.7, 5.4, 5.7, 6.4)
Pre-XP Windows 0.6 (0.7, 0.8, 0.7, 0.6, 1.0, 0.9, 0.9)
Windows-8 0.3 (0.1%)
Mac 12.5 (12.8, 12.8, 12.4, 12.6, 11.3, 11.9, 12.4, 12.0)
iPhone/iPad/iPod 21.0 (21.1, 19.9, 21.1, 19.7, 19.2, 18.5)
Android 4.6 (4.6, 4.2, 5.0, 3.9, 4.1, 3.5, 3.7, 4.2, 3.5) 
Other Mobiles 2.4 (2.0, 2.5, 2.8, 3.2, 3.0, 2.9, 2.7, 3.1)
Linux 0.8 (0.7, 0.7, 0.7, 0.7, 0.7, 0.8, 0.8, 0.9, 0.8)

Windows 8 has arrived.  The current result is 70 visits which 
is 0.347%. These visits are mainly from Australia and the USA.

The reported boom in Android sales here and in North America
is not yet reflected in people actually surfing the net 
with Android tablets or phones.

The total sample size above was 20195.



Browser Breakup
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Percentages of visits for the period 1st to 15th November 2012:-

Safari 30.2 (30.4, 29.2, 30.2, 29.2, 27.7, 27.6, 27.0, 30.2)
Chrome 27.2 (26.4, 26.4, 24.0, 23.0, 23.7, 21.6, 22.8)
IE 26.8 (27.2, 27.9, 28.0, 30.0, 31.5, 33.3, 31.3, 28.4)
Firefox 12.2 (12.8, 12.7, 13.7, 13.7, 13.2, 13.7, 15.0)
Opera 2.1 (1.8, 2.3, 2.5, 2.3, 2.1, 2.1, 2.3, 2.2, 2.3)
All Others 1.5 (1.4, 1.5, 1.6, 1.8, 1.8, 1.7, 1.6, 1.9)

Safari remains ahead of Internet Explorer.  

Chrome has also passed Internet Explorer and seems to be
the browser of choice for Windows-8 "early adopters".

The sample size was 20254 visits by humans. 



Search Engines Share
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Percentage breakup of visits coming via search engines 
for November 1st to 15th, 2012:-

Google 89.4 (89.5, 90.9, 90.4, 90.5, 90.6, 88.7, 88.4, 89.6)
Yahoo 3.9 (4.1, 3.4, 4.2, 4.0, 3.5, 4.7, 4.6, 4.2, 3.7, 3.4)
Bing 3.5 (3.3, 2.8, 2.5, 2.9, 2.7, 3.2, 3.3, 2.9, 3.0, 2.8)
All others 3.2 (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 13877,  
including 2998 of 12403 searches (24%) via Google where the 
search string was "not provided" allegedly for privacy reasons.

Yahoo and Bing are still not playing this "privacy" game.

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