Latest Stats as at 3/2/2012. ============================ These figures cover the 16-day period 16/1/2012 to 31/1/2012. Operating System Market Share ============================== For the period 16th to 31st January 2012, these percentage figures are based on visits, with earlier figures in brackets:- Windows-7 31.7 (31.4, 30.7, 31.6, 31.8, 29.9, 32.5, 31.0) XP 25.6 (24.0, 23.6, 29.6, 27.4, 28.0, 27.7, 30.1, 29.7) Vista 8.2 (8.3, 8.7, 8.9, 9.4, 8.7, 9.8, 10.5, 10.2, 10.7) Pre-XP Windows 1.2 (0.9, 0.9, 1.7, 1.9, 1.7, 2.2, 1.9, 1.7) Mac 11.6 (11.7, 11.8, 11.7, 12.3, 15.4, 13.0, 12.4, 12.0) iPhone etc 14.7 (16.7, 16.7, 10.6, 11.1, 10.9, 9.3, 8.4) Android 2.7 (3.0, 3.1, 2.0, 2.5, 2.1, 2.0, 2.1, 1.9, 1.7) Other Mobiles 3.5 (3.2, 3.6, 3.1, 2.7, 2.5, 2.6, 2.9, 2.8) Linux 0.8 (0.8, 0.9, 0.8, 0.8, 0.7, 0.9, 0.7, 0.9, 0.7) Putting everything else aside, Windows XP has gone up a little, and iPhone has gone down a little. Perhaps workers have gone back to work and are now surfing at their employer's expense. No sign yet of the new Nokia smartphones using Windows 7. The total sample size above was 19216. Browser Breakup =============== Percentages of visits for the period 16th to 31st January 2012:- IE 35.5 (33.1, 31.7, 39.8, 39.3, 40.4, 41.1, 41.0, 41.7) Safari 25.6 (28.0, 28.0, 21.1, 22.5, 24.8, 20.6, 19.5) Chrome 17.5 (17.6, 17.9, 16.9, 17.0, 14.8, 15.8, 17.1) FF 17.0 (17.3, 17.9, 18.1, 17.2, 16.7, 18.7, 18.6, 18.6) Opera 2.2 (1.9, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 1.9, 2.1, 2.1, 2.0, 2.4) All Others 2.2 (2.1, 2.3, 1.8, 1.6, 1.5, 1.7, 1.7, 1.7) Chrome remains ahead of Firefox. In the latest round of updates, most Chrome users are on Chrome 16, whilst most Firefox users have just updated from Version 8 to Version 9. A hard core of Firefox users remain behind on Version 3.6. The sample size was 19356 visits by humans. Search Engines Share ==================== Percentage breakup of visits coming via search engines for January 16th to 31st, 2012:- Google 91.2 (91.8, 91.1, 90.4, 90.0, 90.0, 90.3, 90.5) Bing 3.0 (2.7, 3.1, 3.1, 3.9, 4.1, 3.5, 3.4, 2.8, 3.3) Yahoo 2.8 (2.7, 3.1, 2.9, 3.5, 3.5, 3.6, 3.4, 3.5) All others 2.9 (2.8, 2.8, 3.7, 2.7, 2.4, 2.6, 2.7) Much to the consternation of US lawmakers, the internet community have chosen to crown Google as a natural monopoly. Everyday the on-line computer press runs article for and against Google, and urges everyone to "have their say". In fact they get very few comments to their articles, and I often wonder why. The sample size above was 13761 visits. ================================ ===============================