Latest Stats as at 1/8/2011.
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These figures cover the 15-day period 1/7/2011 to 15/7/2011.

About 3% of visits comes from machines pretending to be humans. 
This fact makes it quite difficult to present statistics that are 
reasonably accurate, say to a range of plus or minus 0.3% 
on the central percentage.

Out on the web, all the measurement companies must be having the
same troubles.  But they do not tell us what is being excluded.

This fortnight further measures have been taken to exclude 
some more rubbish.

(a) The "Other Windows" result below has been adjusted downwards 
by excluding the repeated visits, day after day, from people 
claiming to be using Windows 2000 or whatever. 
(b) There has been a surge in searches from generic search engines.
It turns out only a couple of web sites are involved whereby forum
users must be posting the search as a link to be clicked on.
These are not real searches to be counted as people deliberately
choosing the generic search engine as opposed to Google.
(c) More queries have been constructed to exclude repeated visits
where each visit is only one or two hits and not a genuine visitor.  
Currently, many fake visits are just one or two hits at a time 
spaced every few hours or perhaps every second day.  None of these 
hits amount to real visits from real people.
(d) A lot of other "fake visit" behaviour has been 
previously described.

  
Operating System Market Share
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For the period 1st to 15th July 2011, these percentage figures 
are based on visits, with earlier figures in brackets:-

XP 32.7 (35.5, 35.6, 37.4, 37.3, 37.4, 39.2, 40.0)
Windows-7 27.5 (27.9, 28.0, 28.2, 26.4, 25.8, 26.9) 
Vista 11.7 (10.5, 12.1, 12.1, 12.4, 13.6, 13.2, 13.4)
Other Windows 1.7 (1.3, 1.8, 2.0, 1.7, 1.9, 1.7, 1.7)
Mac 11.4 (11.0, 11.1, 10.3, 11.5, 11.1, 10.4, 10.5)
iPhone etc 8.8 (6.5, 5.6, 4.9, 5.5, 5.5, 4.8, 5.1)
Android 1.9 (1.9, 1.4, 1.1, 1.1, 1.0, 0.8, 0.8) 
Other Mobiles 3.4 (4.2, 3.3, 3.0, 3.0, 2.9, 2.2, 2.3)
Linux 0.8 (1.1, 1.1, 1.0, 1.0, 0.8, 0.8, 0.6, 0.8, 0.9) 

A big jump for iPhones but the Android result has remained constant.  
The figure for the older pre-XP versions of Windows is a little 
high, and is probably nearer to 1.5%.  As said previously, 
this "Other Windows" figure above would be nearer 3% if all 
the rubbish were included.

Unfortunately for "Linux on the Desktop", around half of the
Linux visits are now machines pretending to be humans and 
are not counted in the above breakup.    
Any Linux figure over 1.0% is very suspect.  Repeated short visits, 
day after day, from surfers in Belarus is pretty hard to believe.

In this fortnight, the raw data showed increased visits from Nokia 
and Blackberry mobile phones, whereas earlier figures showed a 
decline.  Perhaps things are not as gloomy as previously presented.  

However an article in the financial pages blasted RIM, 
the company that makes the Blackberry for not shifting quickly 
with the changing market.  Their share price has halved in the last 
year while the Android and the iPhone/iPad have been taking the 
market.   The iPad tablet is going well in the corporate market, 
a traditional Blackberry strength.
  
The total sample size above was 13237 visits by humans.


Browser Breakup
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Percentages of visits for the period 1st to 15th July 2011:-

IE 41.8 (45.4, 47.0, 50.1, 47.8, 49.1, 52.4, 49.5)
FF 19.2 (19.0, 19.7, 19.0, 20.2, 20.5, 19.8, 20.6)  
Safari 19.5 (16.0, 14.9, 13.4, 15.4, 15.1, 13.9, 14.5)
Chrome 15.0 (14.4, 14.3, 13.6, 12.8, 11.7, 10.9, 11.5)
Opera 2.3 (2.8, 2.2, 2.0, 1.8, 1.8, 1.4, 2.2, 2.3, 2.7)
All Others 2.3 (2.4, 1.8, 1.8, 1.9, 2.0, 1.8, 1.6, 1.7)

A substantial drop for Internet Explorer and Safari has 
returned a result higher than Firefox for the first time.
 
Behind the scenes, there has been a massive amount of browser
upgrading going on.  It's been pointed out that most users 
now elect to have this done automatically.

Firefox 5.0 far outnumbers 4.0 in just two weeks.
Similarly Chrome 12 increased while Chrome 11 and Chrome 12 both
halved.

The sample size was 13302 visits by humans. 


Search Engines Share
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Percentage breakup of visits coming via search engines 
for July 1st to 15th, 2011:-

Google 89.9 (90.6, 90.3, 91.8, 90.9, 90.5, 89.5, 90.2)
Bing 3.7 (3.6, 3.5, 3.2, 3.2, 3.4, 4.3, 4.1, 3.5, 3.2)
Yahoo 3.2 (3.1, 3.0, 2.5, 2.8, 3.1, 3.2, 3.1, 2.7, 3.2)
All others 3.2 (2.6, 3.1, 2.5, 3.1, 3.0, 2.9, 2.5, 2.4)

Figures for the "All others" category have been adjusted to
exclude searches from generic-search web sites where the 
search resulted more from following a link on a forum 
than from an individual search where the search engine was 
chosen and the search was then typed.

The sample size above was 9473 searches.

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