Latest Stats as at 21/7/2010.
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These figures cover the 15-day period 1/7/2010 to 15/7/2010.

Operating System Market Share
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For the period 1st to 15th July 2010, these percentage figures 
are based on visits, with earlier figures in brackets:-

XP 46.3 (48.8, 47.4, 48.8, 48.6, 48.1, 46.6, 49.4, 49.0, 48.9, 50.0)
Vista 19.0 (18.9,  20.1, 19.5, 20.6, 20.8, 22.4, 21.9, 22.1, 22.9)
Windows-7 14.7 (14.1, 13.5, 12.9, 12.3, 11.4, 11.4, 10.4, 9.7, 9.3) 
Other Windows 2.9 (2.6, 2.6, 2.8, 2.8, 3.0, 2.5 (2.7, 4.0, 4.0, 4.3)
Mac 11.0 (10.4, 11.0, 11.0, 10.6, 11.6, 11.2, 10.4, 10.4, 10.0, 10.2)
iPhone 2.7 (2.1, 1.9, 1.7, 1.8, 2.0, 2.4, 2.1, 1.9, 2.1, 1.8, 2.0)
Other Mobiles 1.9 (2.1, 2.2, 1.8, 1.8, 1.7, 2.0, 1.8, 1.7, 1.5, 1.7)
Linux 1.5 (1.0, 1.3, 1.4, 1.5, 1.4, 1.4, 1.4, 1.3, 1.2, 1.4, 1.5) 

The iPhone result now includes both iPods and iPads. There were 49 iPad 
and 48 iPod visits, compared with 404 iPhone visits.  
Portable devices are booming, 
despite the bad press for Apple and the "grip of death".

The total sample size was 18827 visits by humans.

This month, the counting has been tightened up to only include 
successful hits as counting towards visits.  
Otherwise the Linux figure would have doubled due to a Russian 
visitor who did not make a single good hit, and all the while 
pretending to be a normal computer operated using a browser. 


Browser Breakup
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Percentages of visits for the period 1st to 15th July 2010:-

IE 51.7 (53.3, 52.4, 54.6, 54.6, 54.4, 52.3, 55.3, 57.6, 56.8, 57.2)
FF 25.3 (25.0, 25.7, 24.4, 24.7, 24.5, 26.0, 25.4, 23.5, 24.1, 24.9)  
Safari 11.5 (10.3, 11.0, 10.4, 10.6, 11.5, 11.5, 9.8, 9.6, 9.6, 9.8)
Chrome 8.1 (7.8, 7.3, 6.9, 6.6, 6.2, 6.3, 5.9, 5.4, 5.7, 5.1, 5.1)
Opera 1.5 (1.6, 1.7, 1.7, 1.6, 1.6, 1.7, 1.5, 1.7, 1.5, 1.4, 1.5)
All Others 1.9 (1.9, 1.9, 2.0, 1.8, 1.8, 2.2, 2.1, 2.2, 2.1, 2.1)
  
Once again, that's the highest figure ever for the Chrome browser.

Current MSIE breakup is IE-8 47%, IE-7 32%, IE-6 16% 
and earlier versions 4%.

The sample size was 19320 visits by humans.

 
Search Engines Share
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The most recent three figures from the left are to a slightly revised 
method, but earlier results have not been corrected. 

Percentage breakup of visits coming via search engines 
for July 1st to 15th, 2010:-

Google 88.0 (89.4, 89.7, 89.7, 90.7, 90.5, 90.1, 90.6, 89.1, 90.1)
Yahoo 5.3 (4.6, 4.3, 3.7, 3.7, 3.8, 4.4, 4.5, 4.9, 4.2, 4.5, 4.8)
Microsoft 3.3 (2.9, 3.1, 3.6, 3.0, 2.9, 2.7, 2.5, 3.5, 3.0, 3.1)
All others 3.4 (3.2, 2.9, 2.9, 2.6, 2.8, 2.7, 2.4, 2.6, 2.7, 2.8)

The sample size above was 8979 searches.

Microsoft's Bing has remained below the "All others" figure, but 
has shown a sudden jump to 3.3% after previously trending downwards.  
However, as shown above, Yahoo, Bing and the Others have all 
increased, at the expense of Google whose share has dropped 1.4%.

This move away from Google is not a world-wide trend.  
The overall result reflects swings from the USA and the UK.

Basically, in the USA the shares for Microsoft, Yahoo and all 
Others have gone up by about 1% each, meaning Google has 
dropped from 73% to 70%.  There have been similar swings 
in the UK with Google dropping from roughly 89% to 86%. 

The overall result as measured here in Australia means Google 
has dropped to 88.0% and Yahoo has increased to 5.3% etc, as shown.

My figures from early June where it looked like curtains
for Yahoo and Bing have not turned into long term trends.


Search Engines by Country
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As presented last month, the differences between continents 
remains very clear.  

Essentially the overall result as seen here in Australia 
can be shown as six different distributions added together.

Australia/NZ: Google 94%, Yahoo 3% Microsoft 2%, Others 1%.

USA/Canada: Google 70%, Yahoo 15%, Microsoft 8% and Others 7%.

UK/Ireland: Google 86%, Yahoo 5%, Microsoft 4% and Others 5%.

Western Europe: Google 92%, Yahoo 2%, Microsoft 1%, Others 5%.

Asia: Google 87% Yahoo 9%, Microsoft 1%, Others 3% 

Rest of World: Google 88%, Yahoo 6%, Microsoft 2%, Others 4%.
 
Clearly North America and UK/Ireland are in a different 
ball park to everybody else.

Yahoo and Bing are not popular in mainland Europe,
especially in Scandinavia.  Yahoo is popular in Asia 
at about 9% but Bing is quite unpopular at about 1%.  

Just like in Western Europe (excluding the UK), Australian 
surfers are very pro-Google with the latest local result 
at 93.6% from a sample of 3368 searches.

The breakup of all searches from the six regions given above is
Oz 35%, USA 19%, UK 11%, Europe 6%, Asia 13%, Rest 16%.

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