Latest Stats as at 17/3/2009. These figures cover the 15-day period 1/3/2009 to 15/3/2009. Figures below in brackets each span half a month. The fourth and fifth earlier figures are the Christmas period (mid December to mid January) and are not as representative as other figures. Vista Market Share ================== For period 1st to 15th March 2009, figures based on visits:- XP 67.3 (was 66.2, 65.3, 64.1, 64.7, 64.2, 66.2, 66.7, 68.9) Vista 21.1 (was 21.1, 20.4, 20.9, 22.0, 21.9, 19.6, 19.7, 18.0) Other Windows 3.5 (was 3.6, 4.3, 4.9, 3.3, 3.9, 4.3, 4.2, 4.7) Mac 5.9 (was 6.7, 7.8, 7.9, 7.7, 7.3, 7.6, 7.3, 6.6, 6.6, 6.6) Linux 0.8 (was 0.9, 1.0, 1.0, 1.2, 1.2, 0.9, 1.1, 1.1, 1.2) Others 1.4 (was 1.5, 1.2, 1.2, 1.1, 1.5, 1.3, 1.1, 0.7, 0.8) These figures exclude the Google Desktop. It reads the icon of the web page and nothing else. Browser Breakup =============== Visit percentages for the period 1st to 15th March 2009. IE 68.6 (was 67.0, 67.0, 66.2, 66.0, 63.5 (Xmas), 67,5, 68.7, 69.5, 69.4) FF 23.1 (was 24.0, 22.8, 24.2, 24.5, 26.2 (Xmas), 23.2, 22.3, 22.4, 22.6) Safari 4.7 (was 5.2, 5.9, 6.1, 5.8, 5.9, 5.7, 5.6, 5.1, 5.0, 5.0) Chrome 1.0 (was 1.3, 1.2, 1.1, 1,4, 1.2, 1.1, 0.8, 0.8, 0.8, 0.9) Opera 1.0 (was 0.9, 1.3, 1.1, 0.9, 1.0, 0.8, 0.9, 0.8, 0.9, 0.9) All Others 1.5 (was 1.5, 1.8, 1.3, 1.4, 1.6, 1.7, 1.6, 1.3, 1.4) Notice the rise in IE and the nasty drop in Safari, which basically means Mac computers, as the percentage of Mac users is pretty static at 64%. Firefox is hardly going up. I believe these trends are caused by the new net-book computers which are selling like hot cakes and and only run XP on Intel/AMD chips. Take no notice of what other people say. It all looks a bit gloomy for Apple, but the Apple Insider web site (thanks for the link, Gerry) reports just last week that Chinese IT newspapers claim Apple has placed an order for 10" touch screens for a "mystery product". Yikes, look out for a cross between a Mac laptop and an iPhone on steroids. There is free Wi-Fi in most McDonalds stores (their plan is all stores by April 2009). Free Wi-Fi and baby computers is what's happening out there. There are no power points provided in Maccas but you can sit there for four and a half hours with your net book. Beware of salesmen in Harvey Norman who will tell you that battery life does not matter. When in Maccas, or just sitting in the park using your mobile broadband pre-pay dongle from Optus, it really does matter. Search Engines Share ==================== Percentage breakup of visits coming via search engines for March 1st to 15th 2009:- Google 86.8 (was 85.4 (was 85.8, 85.5, 82.8, 84.3, 85.6, 86.9, 85.8) Yahoo 7.1 (was 8.0 (was 7.8, 8.0, 10.1, 9.1, 7.9, 7.6, 7.6, 8.1, 7.5) Microsoft 2.3 (was 2.5 (was 2.3, 2.3, 2.6, 3.2, 3.0, 2.7, 3.1, 2.5) All others 3.8 (was 4.1 (was 4.2, 4.1, 4.5, 3.3, 3.6, 2.7, 3.4, 3.1) A good month for Google. Yahoo and Microsoft don't have a 10% market share between them (I have been waiting to write that for a long time). Hackers Analysis ================ Fortunately the dreadful search engine crawler Charlotte has pretty much given up and gone away. Hits from various other nasties continue. Only about a quarter are return visits. Clearly many of these return visits are just a few days later. I have put up two new .htaccess files in the last couple of weeks and it has been moderately effective. There are about 150 IP addresses on the banned list, and the result is about 20 hits given a '403' error every day. Sad to report, heaps of new nasties keep arriving, causing about 40 '404' errors per day. ============================== ============================== First time published here: The "blast from the past" for Sept 2002, but now moved to a separate text file.