Latest Stats as at 5/7/2011. ============================= These figures cover the 15-day period 16/6/2011 to 30/6/2011. Operating System Market Share ============================== For the period 16th to 30th June 2011, these percentage figures are based on visits, with earlier figures in brackets:- XP 35.5 (35.6, 37.4, 37.3, 37.4, 39.2, 40.0, 38.9, 39.9) Windows-7 27.9 (28.0, 28.2, 26.4, 25.8, 26.9, 25.7, 24.8) Vista 10.5 (12.1, 12.1, 12.4, 13.6, 13.2, 13.4, 13.6, 13.9) Other Windows 1.3 (1.8, 2.0, 1.7, 1.9, 1.7, 1.7, 1.6, 1.8) Mac 11.0 (11.1, 10.3, 11.5, 11.1, 10.4, 10.5, 10.6, 10.7) iPhone etc 6.5 (5.6, 4.9, 5.5, 5.5, 4.8, 5.1, 5.5, 5.4) Android 1.9 (1.4, 1.1, 1.1, 1.0, 0.8, 0.8) Other Mobiles 4.2 (3.3, 3.0, 3.0, 2.9, 2.2, 2.3, 4.1, 4.4) Linux 1.1 (1.1, 1.0, 1.0, 0.8, 0.8, 0.6, 0.8, 0.9, 0.7, 0.8) These figures show a huge jump in iPhones and Androids. The above figures are calculated after a strenuous effort to exclude fake visits of all shapes and sizes, probably about 2% of the total visits. In particular, there are deadbeats pretending to be older pre-XP versions of Windows, and they now seem to be running software to generate a variety of agent strings. It all seems to be an attempt to derail efforts at compiling internet statistics. But you have to draw the line at a computer claiming to be Windows 98 and running Internet Explorer 3.01, given that Windows 98 came with Internet Explorer 5. The "Other Windows" figure of 1.3% above would be nearer 3% if the rubbish were included. Similarly for Linux. In the figure of 1.1% given above, perhaps a quarter of the visits are rubbish which should not have been counted. One IP address made 12 "visits", another made 9 "visits" yet the entire total for Linux is only 153 visits. As previously explained, a big storm cloud is gathering for Nokia. Two articles in the press in the last two weeks have confirmed their loss of sales. Once again the raw data shows visits from Nokia / Symbian have fallen, whilst the visits from Android phones have increased. It's not rocket science to realise that people surfing the net prefer to use the latest smartphones. But there is no guarantee the marketplace will flock to buy a Windows-powered Nokia smartphone. The current WindowsMobile share is 17 visits out of a total of 1734 visits from mobile phones. Around the end of the year, Nokia will be releasing their Windows-7 mobile phone, while Microsoft will be releasing a beta version of Windows-8 for laptops. You may have read how well the Android is selling in America. This is absolutely true; meanwhile Australia has a fascination with the iPhone and the Android visits are less than 20% of the iPhone/iPad/iPod tally. But with visits from North America, Androids are 70% of the iPhones (etc) figure and a massive boom is in progress. Think Android and think tablet. This same Android boom could happen here at any moment. Currently I see the top Android phones from Australia as HTC and Samsung followed by Sony and Motorola. From North America it's Motorola and HTC followed by LG, Samsung and some smaller names including telco-branded phones. My advice to Blackberry and Nokia: Build an Android phone now. But nobody will be surprised if we discover the deal between Microsoft and Nokia prevents Nokia building an Android phone. The total sample size above was 13765 visits by humans. Browser Breakup =============== Percentages of visits for the period 16th to 30th June 2011:- IE 45.4 (47.0, 50.1, 47.8, 49.1, 52.4, 49.5, 48.3, 48.0) FF 19.0 (19.7, 19.0, 20.2, 20.5, 19.8, 20.6, 20.9, 22.4) Safari 16.0 (14.9, 13.4, 15.4, 15.1, 13.9, 14.5, 14.6, 13.4) Chrome 14.4 (14.3, 13.6, 12.8, 11.7, 10.9, 11.5, 11.5, 10.5) Opera 2.8 (2.2, 2.0, 1.8, 1.8, 1.4, 2.2, 2.3, 2.7, 2.1, 1.7) All Others 2.4 (1.8, 1.8, 1.9, 2.0, 1.8, 1.6, 1.7, 2.3, 3.0) The above figures are not very exciting. The increase in Safari is caused directly by its use in Apple mobile phones. Many mobile phones either don't name their browser distinctly or are using custom-built browsers or in-house browsers. Behind the scenes, there has been a massive amount of browser upgrading going on. Firefox 4.0 now outnumbers Firefox 3.6 and Chrome 12 is way ahead of Chrome 11. MSIE 8 is over double the figure for MSIE 7. There must be some very keen surfers out there, because there are already many visits from Firefox 5, Chrome 13 and 14, and MSIE 9. Meanwhile there are still hackers pretending to be Netscape 3 and Netscape 4. The sample size was 13824 visits by humans. Search Engines Share ==================== Percentage breakup of visits coming via search engines for June 16th to 30th, 2011:- Google 90.6 (90.3, 91.8, 90.9, 90.5, 89.5, 90.2, 91.4, 90.6) Bing 3.6 (3.5, 3.2, 3.2, 3.4, 4.3, 4.1, 3.5, 3.2, 4.0, 4.3) Yahoo 3.1 (3.0, 2.5, 2.8, 3.1, 3.2, 3.1, 2.7, 3.2, 3.4, 3.4) All others 2.6 (3.1, 2.5, 3.1, 3.0, 2.9, 2.5, 2.4, 2.8, 2.9) Once again, it's a "business as usual" result with little to report. The difference between continents remains very large. In North America, Yahoo and Bing are both around 7% when searching for my websites. In Europe, Google measures 95% leaving precious little for anybody else. In Asia, Yahoo is still over 10%. In Australia, it's 94% Google. The sample size above was 9512 searches. ================================ ===============================