Latest Stats as at 19/6/2009
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These figures cover the 15-day period 1/6/2009 to 15/6/2009.

Some important things:

(1) A fault has been found in the code that groups hits into visits.  
The fault happened from mid May and as a result, most of the figures 
for May 16-31 have been recalculated, but earlier figures are ok.

(2) On the 17th June, everything moved to a new hosting company. 
However, there are problems with the new raw log files, 
and this could well be the last issue of these statistics.

(3) The drop in the percentage of XP that was announced 
two weeks ago is incorrect. Revised figures are below.

Vista Market Share
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For period 1st to 15th June 2009, figures based on visits, 
and earlier figures in brackets, and revised figures for 
16th - 31st May:-

XP 62.1 (was 61.8, 63.6, 64.0, 64.5, 64.1, 67.3, 66.2, 65.3)
Vista 24.6 (was 24.0, 23.0, 22.8, 22.1, 20.4, 21.1, 21.1, 20.4)
Windows-7 0.4 (was 0.4) 
Other Windows 3.7 (was 3.3, 3.8, 3.5, 3.7, 5.5, 3.5, 3.6, 4.3)
Mac 6.5 (was 7.7, 7.0, 7.1, 7.2, 7.4, 5.9, 6.7, 7.8, 7.9, 7.7)
Linux 1.1 (was 1.0, 0.8, 1.2, 1.0, 1.2, 0.8, 0.9, 1.0, 1.0, 1.2) 
Others 1.6 (was 1.8, 1.8, 1.4, 1.5, 1.5, 1.4, 1.5, 1.2, 1.2, 1.1)

Vista is slowly going ahead, but XP is still over 60%.
Windows-7 is shown for the second time.
The total sample size was 17365 visits by humans.
 
Browser Breakup
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Percentages of visits for the period 1st to 16th June 2009.
earlier figures for 16-31 May have been revised just slightly.

IE 62.8 (was 62.4, 62.7, 63.2, 63.9, 66.5, 68.6, 67.0, 67.0)
FF 25.8 (was 26.1, 26.0, 26.4, 25.7, 24.1, 23.1, 24.0, 22.8)  
Safari 5.5 (was 6.0, 5.9, 5.5, 5.9, 5.4, 4.7, 5.2, 5.9, 6.1, 5.8)
Chrome 2.3 (was 1.9, 1.9, 1.8, 1.6, 1.2, 1.0, 1.3, 1.2, 1.1, 1,4)
Opera 2.2 (was 1.6, 1.7, 1.5, 1.3, 1.1, 1.0, 0.9, 1.3, 1.1, 0.9)
All Others 1.5 (was 1.9, 1.7, 1.5, 1.6, 1.6, 1.5, 1.5, 1.8)

Chrome and Opera have both broken the 2% barrier.

The breakup for IE users is IE8 12%, IE7 54%, 
IE6 31% and earlier versions just under 3%.  

The breakup for Firefox users is FF3.5 under 1%, FF3 89%, 
FF2 9% and all earlier versions a bit over 1%.

It appears users are not adverse to trying beta versions of browsers.
Yep, it's much safer than trying beta versions of operating systems.    

Results for Safari include Safari on the iPhone, 
and the Opera figures include Opera Mini on mobiles. 

The total sample size was 16677 visits by humans.

Search Engines Share
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Percentage breakup of visits coming via search engines 
for June 1st to 15th, 2009:-

Google 84.8 (was 85.4, 83.6, 85.6, 87.3, 86.3, 86.8, 85.4, 85.8)
Yahoo 7.7 (was 7.8, 10.3, 7.8, 6.7, 6.3, 7.1, 8.0, 7.8, 8.0, 10.1)
Microsoft 3.3 (was 3.1, 2.4, 2.8, 2.4, 2.9, 2.3, 2.5, 2.3, 2.3, 2.6)
All others 4.2 (was 3.8, 3.8, 3.8, 3.6, 4.5, 3.8, 4.1, 4.2)

Around June 2nd, Microsoft re-badged all their search engines 
into one new engine named "Bing".  Pundits are still contemplating
whether it's "bingle", "bling" or "bung".

The sample size referred by search engines was 7236. This is 
roughly 42% of all visits, compared with around 37% in 2002.

The Bing Blip.
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Bing had a lot of publicity for a few days, but things soon reverted 
to normal.  Here are some comparative percentages, with the results 
grouped into periods of three days:-

May 23-24-25: Bing 2.7
May 26-27-28: Bing 4.1
May 29-30-31: Bing 2.7
June 1-2-3: Bing 3.6
June 4-5-6: Bing 3.2
June 7-8-9: Bing 3.4
June 10-11-12: Bing 3.0
June 13-14-15: Bing 3.3

The total number of searches is only about 1200 per three days
and is too small for reliable analysis. The accuracy of each 
measurement above is roughly plus or minus 0.4.

Any trend to "swing with Bing" will require either massive 
advertising or a product that is strikingly better than Google.

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