Latest Stats as at 11/3/2012. ============================ These figures cover the 14-day period 16/2/2012 to 29/2/2012. Operating System Market Share ============================== For the period 16th to 29th February 2012, these percentage figures are based on visits, with earlier figures in brackets:- Windows-7 33.7 (32.1, 31.7, 31.4, 30.7, 31.6, 31.8, 29.9) XP 24.5 (25.9, 25.6, 24.0, 23.6, 29.6, 27.4, 28.0, 27.7) Vista 7.5 (7.6, 8.2, 8.3, 8.7, 8.9, 9.4, 8.7, 9.8, 10.5) Pre-XP Windows 1.2 (1.4, 1.2, 0.9, 0.9, 1.7, 1.9, 1.7, 2.2) Mac 12.3 (12.5, 11.6, 11.7, 11.8, 11.7, 12.3, 15.4, 13.0) iPhone etc 14.1 (13.8, 14.7, 16.7, 16.7, 10.6, 11.1, 10.9) Android 2.8 (2.6, 2.7, 3.0, 3.1, 2.0, 2.5, 2.1, 2.0, 2.1) Other Mobiles 3.0 (3.3, 3.5, 3.2, 3.6, 3.1, 2.7, 2.5, 2.6) Linux 1.0 (0.8, 0.8, 0.8, 0.9, 0.8, 0.8, 0.7, 0.9, 0.7) No big surprises here. Android hovers around 3% and iPhones (including iPads and iPods) hovers around 14%. The results for iPhone/iPad/iPod are lumped together, mainly because they represent Apple's swing to touch-screen computing as opposed to the standard keyboard and mouse. An important trend is emerging, with iPods in a gradual decline and the iPad now ahead of the iPhone in visits. Meanwhile the Android figures include all Android tablets, so it's very clear that iPads are way ahead (like three or four times) of all brands of Android tablet combined. Visits from Nokia smartphones include 54 using Symbian, only 1 using the Windows 7 operating system, and 44 with other/earlier Nokia operating systems. Nokia have released some good new phones, but there is no sign of a surge for Windows phones, compared with Android and Apple. Tallies of visits from Android phones include Samsung on 167, HTC on 101 and Motorola on 41. Samsung now measures ahead of the Blackberry phone which had 142 visits. The total sample size above was 17095. Browser Breakup =============== Percentages of visits for the period 16th to 29th February 2012:- IE 34.8 (35.8, 35.5, 33.1, 31.7, 39.8, 39.3, 40.4, 41.1) Safari 23.3 (25.1, 25.6, 28.0, 28.0, 21.1, 22.5, 24.8) Chrome 20.9 (18.1, 17.5, 17.6, 17.9, 16.9, 17.0, 14.8) FF 17.0 (16.4, 17.0, 17.3, 17.9, 18.1, 17.2, 16.7, 18.7) Opera 2.2 (2.4, 2.2, 1.9, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 1.9, 2.1, 2.1) All Others 1.8 (2.2, 2.2, 2.1, 2.3, 1.8, 1.6, 1.5, 1.7) There is a noticable hiccup this time. After much debate (thank you, Gerry), it's clear that all "Safari" browsers running on Androids are actually Google's "Chrome" and this is now shown in the statistics above. Roughly 2.3% has moved from Safari to Chrome; but earlier figures have not been adjusted. This puts Chrome even further ahead of Firefox. However there are other statistics out on the web giving Firefox a market share over 40%. I don't believe it. In the latest round of browser updates, Chrome users are mostly on Chrome 17. Firefox users are mainly on version 10 with a handful on version 11. Clearly automatic updating is making its mark but version 3.6 of Firefox is still popular. The current Internet Explorer version is mainly IE8 on Windows XP and IE9 on Vista and Windows 7. The sample size was 17170 visits by humans. Search Engines Share ==================== Percentage breakup of visits coming via search engines for February 16th to 29th, 2012:- Google 90.6 (91.0, 91.2, 91.8, 91.1, 90.4, 90.0, 90.0, 90.3) Bing 3.3 (3.2, 3.0, 2.7, 3.1, 3.1, 3.9, 4.1, 3.5, 3.4, 2.8) Yahoo 3.1 (2.9, 2.8, 2.7, 3.1, 2.9, 3.5, 3.5, 3.6, 3.4, 3.5) All others 2.9 (3.0, 2.9, 2.8, 2.8, 3.7, 2.7, 2.4, 2.6, 2.7) It's business as usual - Google over 90% in all results shown. The sample size above was 12030 visits. ================================ ===============================