Latest Stats as at 4/2/2011.
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These figures cover the 16-day period 16/1/2011 to 31/1/2011.

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Introduction
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This month the mobile share of the market measures 10.0%.
This is a slight drop from last month; and there seems to be
a "back to work" theme in all the figures given below.

A 10% market share for mobile phones is pretty amazing, 
considering that three years ago surfing the net with
a mobile phone was quite unusual at under 0.5%. 

The Android is now second after the iPhone in the mobile phone
operating system category.

Operating System Market Share
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For the period 16th to 31st January 2011, these percentage figures 
are based on visits, with earlier figures in brackets:-

XP 39.3 (38.2 ,38.2, 41.7, 42.5, 43.1, 43.6, 44.7, 45.0, 45.0, 45.1)
Windows-7 22.5 (22.0, 22.6, 21.5, 21.2, 19.8, 19.7, 19.5, 18.2) 
Vista 15.5 (15.5, 15.9, 15.9, 16.6, 16.6, 17.0, 17.1, 17.1, 18.0)
Other Windows 1.9 (2.3, 2.0, 2.4, 2.6, 2.7, 2.4, 2.5, 2.4, 2.3, 2.5)
Mac 10.2 (10.6, 10.4, 10.6, 10.1, 10.7, 10.6, 10.0, 10.9, 10.4, 10.2)
iPhone etc 5.9 (6.3, 6.4, 4.2, 3.7, 4.1, 3.3, 3.0, 3.4, 3.1, 2.8)
Other Mobiles 4.1 (4.2, 3.7, 2.7, 2.4, 2.2, 2.4, 2.2, 2.1, 2.0, 2.1)
Linux 0.7 (0.8, 0.9, 1.0, 0.8, 0.9, 0.8, 0.9, 1.1, 1.1, 1.0, 1.0) 

These figures beem to reflect a "back to work" setting.  
A slight increase in XP whilst Vista is steady.   The Other Windows 
category is now under 2.0% and continues to decline slowly.
Linux has fallen again to measure 0.7%.

The "iPhone" result includes both iPads and iPods. There were 285 
iPad and 183 iPod visits, compared with 906 iPhone visits.  

The Android visits were 203, now ahead of the Blackberry on 174
and all other mobile phone operating systems.  As predicted.

Magazine articles point out that many tablet-style PCs 
will be released this year to compete with the iPad.  
Many of them will be running versions of Android, 
but the PC Authority reviewer is very much an iPad man. 
Clearly the iPad is the gold standard against which 
all tablets are judged.  Even if it is heavily locked down 
by Apple and cannot make phone calls and has no USB port.

The total sample size was 23384 visits by humans.  


Browser Breakup
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Percentages of visits for the period 16th to 31st January 2011:-

IE 47.2 (48.9, 45.2, 52.1, 51.7, 54.4, 54.3, 55.5, 55.0, 54.0, 53.2)
FF 22.2 (21.1, 24.2, 22.2, 23.2, 20.6, 21.5, 21.5, 21.5, 22.4, 24.1)  
Safari 14.2 (15.1, 14.7, 12.6, 12.3, 12.9, 12.0, 11.6, 12.6, 11.5)
Chrome 11.7 (10.5, 10.3, 9.5, 9.0, 8.8, 8.9, 8.3, 7.7, 8.2, 7.8)
Opera 2.1 (1.7, 2.0, 1.7, 2.0, 1.8, 1.8, 1.7, 1.7, 1.9, 2.0, 1.8)
All Others 2.6 (2.6, 3.5, 2.1, 1.8, 1.4, 1.5, 1.5, 1.5, 2.1, 1.9)
  
Slight rises for Firefox, Chrome and Opera.  
Are offices using Chrome instead of Firefox as their alternative 
to Internet Explorer?

The sample size was 24012 visits by humans.

 
Search Engines Share
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Percentage breakup of visits coming via search engines 
for January 16th to 31st, 2011:-

Google 89.9 (89.8, 89.9, 89.1, 90.7, 91.0, 88.4, 90.2, 90.5, 90.7)
Bing 4.3 (3.3, 3.2, 4.0, 3.8, 4.2, 2.9, 2.9, 3.2, 2.6, 3.1, 2.9)
Yahoo 3.4 (3.6, 4.1, 4.0, 3.1, 3.0, 3.3, 3.2, 3.3, 3.3, 3.4, 4.6)
All others 2.5 (3.3, 2.8, 2.9, 2.4, 4.1, 3.7, 3.3, 2.8, 2.8, 2.3)

Google remains completely dominant but Bing has passed Yahoo 
again and the Others category has declined.   

The sample size above was 15408 searches.

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Quarterly results since mid-2008 are tabulated at 
http://www.bondivillage.com/techo/logstats/quarters.htm
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