Latest Stats as at 4/1/2011. ============================= These figures cover the 16-day period 16/12/2010 to 31/12/2010. ============================= =============================== Introduction ============ Firstly, it's the Christmas season. The results for this fortnight are not typical since so many businesses are closed and people are surfing the net from home computers and mobile phones. A lot of people have looked at pictures of "Christmas at Bondi", especially from their mobile phones. Christmas 2010: XP fell from 41.7% to 38.2%, while Windows 7 rose from 21.5 to 22.6 and Vista remained static. iPhones rose from 4.2 to 6.4 and Other Mobiles rose from 2.7 to 3.7%. Christmas 2009: XP fell from 54.7 to 50.4, Vista rose from 23.4 to 24.6 and Windows 7 rose from 4.2 to 5.3. iPhones rose from 1.4 to 2.3 and Other Mobiles rose from 1.5 to 1.9. Christmas 2008: XP fell from 66.2 to 64.2% Vista rose from 19.6 to 21.9%. All mobiles rose from 1.3 to 1.5%. Surfing the net with smart phones will more than double this year. Prediction: 15% visits from smart phones by the end of 2011. Secondly, the latest statistics mystery revolved around files being successfully requested from the server, yet with a file size of "-" appearing in the log, as if the file was faulty. In fact this is caused by clients calling with the HEAD method, they only want to see the date and size of a file, but not the actual contents which requires the GET method. Such requests used to be extremely rare, but the latest craze out there for pests and no-hopers is to check on the properties of millions of files. Consequently all analysis has been tightened up to allow only GET requests. Previously the caller had to be classified as "human" and the file had to be successfully served, thus ignoring requests for rubbish and made-up file names. All this junk is only one or two percent, but it masks analysis of things like Android phones. Operating System Market Share ============================== For the period 16th to 31st December 2010, these percentage figures are based on visits, with earlier figures in brackets:- XP 38.2 (41.7, 42.5, 43.1, 43.6, 44.7, 45.0, 45.0, 45.1, 46.2, 47.4) Windows-7 22.6 (21.5, 21.2, 19.8, 19.7, 19.5, 18.2, 18.1, 17.9) Vista 15.9 (15.9, 16.6, 16.6, 17.0, 17.1, 17.1, 18.0, 18.3, 17.7) Other Windows 2.0 (2.4, 2.6, 2.7, 2.4, 2.5, 2.4, 2.3, 2.5, 2.4, 2.7) Mac 10.4 (10.6, 10.1, 10.7, 10.6, 10.0, 10.9, 10.4, 10.2, 11.2, 10.6) iPhone etc 6.4 (4.2, 3.7, 4.1, 3.3, 3.0, 3.4, 3.1, 2.8, 2.9, 2.5) Other Mobiles 3.7 (2.7, 2.4, 2.2, 2.4, 2.2, 2.1, 2.0, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3) Linux 0.9 (1.0, 0.8, 0.9, 0.8, 0.9, 1.1, 1.1, 1.0, 1.0, 1.5, 1.0) The "iPhone" result includes both iPods and iPads. There were 277 iPad and 151 iPod visits, compared with 932 iPhone visits. After some subtractions, the Android visits is given as 141, slightly behind the Blackberry on 157 visits. The total sample size was 21215 visits by humans. Browser Breakup =============== Percentages of visits for the period 16th to 31st December 2010:- IE 45.2 (52.1, 51.7, 54.4, 54.3, 55.5, 55.0, 54.0, 53.2, 53.2, 52.9) FF 24.2 (22.2, 23.2, 20.6, 21.5, 21.5, 21.5, 22.4, 24.1, 23.5, 25.0) Safari 14.7 (12.6, 12.3, 12.9, 12.0, 11.6, 12.6, 11.5, 10.9, 11.9) Chrome 10.3 (9.5, 9.0, 8.8, 8.9, 8.3, 7.7, 8.2, 7.8, 7.4, 7.3, 8.1) Opera 2.0 (1.7, 2.0, 1.8, 1.8, 1.7, 1.7, 1.9, 2.0, 1.8, 1.7, 1.5) All Others 3.5 (2.1, 1.8, 1.4, 1.5, 1.5, 1.5, 2.1, 1.9, 2.2, 2.0) It's Christmas and businesses are having a break. Internet Explorer is down and everything else is up. Android mobile phones are all the go, but many of them report they are using Safari as their browser. Actualy they are using the open source component WebKit, as does Chrome and Safari, and the figures above have been adjusted accordingly. Android's own browser is currently about 0.7%. The sample size was 22084 visits by humans. Search Engines Share ==================== Percentage breakup of visits coming via search engines for December 16th to 31st, 2010:- Google 89.9 (89.1, 90.7, 91.0, 88.4, 90.2, 90.5, 90.7, 91.2, 90.0) Bing 3.2 (4.0, 3.8, 4.2, 2.9, 2.9, 3.2, 2.6, 3.1, 2.9, 2.8, 3.0) Yahoo 4.1 (4.0, 3.1, 3.0, 3.3, 3.2, 3.3, 3.3, 3.4, 4.6, 4.5, 4.5) All others 2.8 (2.9, 2.4, 4.1, 3.7, 3.3, 2.8, 2.8, 2.3, 2.5, 2.9) Well, there you go. Stranger things have happened. It may be Christmas, but Yahoo is ahead of Bing again. Perhaps this indicates that Bing is being forced upon surfers at their workplace by their IT department. The sample size above was 13540 searches. =============================== ================================ Trivia corner ============= There are six blocks of flats in Bondi built in a style of architecture known as "Spanish Mission". Actually it originated in California around 1920 and is related to the style of the west coast picture palaces of the 1920's. "Spanish Mission" is a very narrow interest and there has been only a handful of searches for this topic in two years. But on 29th December there were three searches in the one day. Clearly there was something on TV, or on the radio or in the papers; people are using the internet to research things. Android phones. It's very hard to measure the market share of the various mobile phones (hardware or operating system) because the results are often influenced by surges in traffic. In the latest round of one-hit visits, 224 people with Android phones looked at the same picture, and all without a referrer string which means they got the link by email. In the same period, only 93 people viewed the same picture from all other operating systems including Windows. And this 93 even included 1 Blackberry, 6 from Nokia phones and none from iPhones. When you exclude these one-hit-wonders, then the Android on 141 visits has not yet passed Blackberry on 157 visits. Any published figures about the Android's market share should be taken with a healthy dose of cynicism. A happy new year to all readers. ==================== ================= =======================