Latest Stats as at 21/12/2013
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These figures cover the 15 day period 1/12/2013 to 15/12/2013.


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

Windows-7 30.3 (32.9, 32.8, 33.4, 32.8, 30.1, 29.7, 29.9) 
XP 8.0 (8.4, 8.3, 8.5, 8.9, 8.7, 8.3, 8.6, 8.9, 9.3, 9.4)
Windows-8 4.3 (4.8, 4.5, 5.0, 5.6, 5.0, 4.8, 4.3, 4.6, 4.2)
Vista 2.7 (2.6, 2.6, 2.8, 2.8, 2.6, 2.7, 2.8, 2.8, 3.1, 3.2)
Pre-XP Windows 2.0 (1.5, 1.2, 1.2, 1.6, 0.9, 0.9, 0.8, 0.8)
Mac 10.1 (10.2, 10.5, 10.7, 10.2, 10.2, 10.5, 10.3, 10.5)
iPhone/iPad/iPod 27.6 (26.2, 27.0, 26.7, 25.6, 30.4, 31.0)
Android 12.5 (11.0, 10.4, 9.5, 9.9, 9.4, 9.1, 9.1, 9.0, 10.5) 
WinPhone 0.4 (0.3, 0.3, 0.2, 0.3, 0.2, 0.3, 0.3, 0.2, 0.3)
Other Mobiles 1.4 (1.4, 1.4, 1.2, 1.7, 1.7, 1.7, 1.8, 1.6)
Linux 0.7 (0.7, 1.0, 0.7, 0.7, 0.9, 1.0, 0.9, 1.0, 0.6)

iPhones and Androids are up. The smartphone revolution 
continues.   American trade articles say the iPhone 5 models 
are a huge success.  They also claim some success for Nokia 
and the WinPhone, but my figures show it's doing better 
in Australia and the UK than in the USA.

Windows 8 continues to be unpopular, after just over a year
on sale.   Now Microsoft has the gall to announce 
the final end of support for Windows XP.

There is still a problem with excessive Pre-XP visits, mainly 
from the UK and the USA.  They look like real visits.

Desktops/Laptops 58% and Mobiles/Tablets 42% (up from 39%).

The total sample size above was 28107.


Browser Breakup
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Percentages of visits for the period 1st to 15th December 2013:-

Chrome 36.2 (36.6, 35.5, 35.1, 35.4, 31.5, 31.7, 31.1)
Safari 33.3 (31.6, 32.9, 32.5, 31.5, 36.2, 37.0, 37.4)
IE 13.5 (16.3, 17.4, 18.0, 19.1, 18.2, 17.5, 17.5, 16.8)
Firefox 9.8 (9.9, 9.4, 10.0, 9.1, 9.1, 9.4, 9.4, 9.4)
Opera 1.4 (1.6, 1.3, 1.3, 1.8, 1.9, 1.6, 1.8, 1.7)
All Others 5.6 (4.1, 3.5, 3.0, 3.1, 3.1, 2.8, 3.0)

The sample size was 28226 visits by humans.


Browser Breakup for Desktops/Laptops 
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Chrome 42.3 (43.6, 43.3, 43.1, 43.4, 40.2, 40.9)
IE 22.8 (26.2, 28.0, 28.6, 29.5, 30.8, 29.6)
Firefox 16.8 (16.0, 15.4, 15.9, 14.5, 15.6, 15.9)
Safari 9.4 (8.4, 9.4, 9.1, 9.1, 9.6, 10.3)
Opera 1.0 (0.9, 0.9, 0.8, 0.9, 1.4, 1.2)
All Others 7.7 (4.8, 3.1, 2.5, 2.5, 2.4, 2.1)

A big jump in the Others category caused mainly by 
new browsers which are offshoots of existing browsers 
based on Gecko and WebKit.

The sample size above was 16385 visits by humans.


Browser Breakup for Mobiles/Tablets 
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Safari 66.9 (68.5, 70.1, 71.8, 69.8, 74.2, 74.7)
Chrome 27.7 (25.7, 23.2, 21.8, 22.5, 19.1, 18.9)
Opera 1.8 (2.4, 1.9, 2.0, 3.1, 2.5, 2.1)
IE 0.7 (0.8, 0.8, 0.6, 0.6, 0.6, 0.6)
Firefox 0.2 (0.2, 0.2, 0.2, 0.3, 0.1, 0.2)
All Others 2.7 (2.5, 3.8, 3.7, 3.7, 3.5, 3.5)

As said previously - compare the Internet Explorer and 
Firefox results here with the desktop/laptop figures above.  
A major trend has passed them by.

The sample size above was 11722 visits by humans.


Search Engines Share
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Percentage breakup of visits coming via search engines 
for December 1st to 15th, 2013:-

Google 84.9 (85.4, 86.3, 87.2, 89.1, 88.1, 89.6)
Bing  9.1 (8.6, 7.7, 7.3, 6.0, 6.5, 5.5, 5.5, 5.7)
Yahoo 4.1 (4.1, 4.1, 3.6, 3.1, 3.4, 3.2, 3.4, 3.5)
All others 1.8 (1.8, 1.9, 1.9, 1.8, 2.0, 1.7, 1.5)

Amazingly, Bing continues to gain, and at the expense 
of Google.  Yahoo and all the rest are steady.

The total number of searches in this sample was 15143, 
including 9936 of 12863 searches (77%) via Google 
where the search string is encrypted, allegedly 
for privacy reasons. 

The figure of 77% measured only 27% at the start 
of this year.  

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