Latest Stats as at 18/7/2013
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These figures cover the 15 day period 1/7/2013 to 15/7/2013.

This 15 day period includes 4 weekend days and 11 weekdays,
giving a slight bias expected towards desktops and laptops.

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

Windows-7 30.5 (32.2, 32.9, 33.6, 33.7, 32.7, 30.7, 32.3) 
XP 9.4 (10.0, 10.0, 11.3, 11.1, 11.5, 11.3, 10.5, 13.6)
Vista 3.2 (3.4, 3.7, 3.4, 3.7, 3.6, 3.7, 3.6, 4.3)
Windows-8 3.9 (4.0, 4.0, 3.7, 3.5, 3.2, 3.2, 2.9)
Pre-XP Windows 0.7 (0.7, 0.7, 0.7, 0.7, 0.8, 0.6)
Mac 9.5 (10.1, 10.2, 10.4, 10.2, 11.3, 12.3, 11.6)
iPhone/iPad/iPod 31.3 (28.4, 27.5, 25.9, 26.8, 26.8)
Android 9.1 (8.8, 8.3, 8.2, 7.6, 7.6, 9.4, 7.4, 6.1) 
WinPhone 0.2 (0.2, 0.2, 0.2, 0.3, 0.2, 0.2, 0.2)
Other Mobiles 1.5 (1.6, 1.5, 1.6, 1.7, 1.4, 2.0, 1.6)
Linux 0.7 (0.6, 1.0, 1.0, 0.8, 0.9, 0.7, 0.9, 0.8)

These figures show a swing to mobiles especially the iPhone,
at the expense of desktops.  It's hard to believe, but the 
results show Windows 7 peaked at 33.7% two months ago. 
Even more startling, there has been a long, steady decline for 
the Mac; Apple's fortunes are seen as being with the mobile 
sector, with consumer expectations being raised by the media.
Don't believe all the hype - to make money Apple needs the
desktop and the laptop as well as the iPad and the iPhone.  

Can anybody predict the next big craze? Back in 2008 
I thought Netbooks were going to rule the world.

An overview of the above figures gives Desktops/Laptops 
58% and Mobiles/Tablets 42%.  As said before, it's simply
amazing when compared with 2008.

Note that if the above calculations were repeated just for 
the desktop/laptop component, Windows 7 and the Mac would 
both fare much better.

The total sample size above was 21873.


Browser Breakup
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Percentages of visits for the period 1st to 15th July 2013:-

Safari 36.5 (34.1, 33.3, 31.9, 32.9, 34.0, 33.8)
Chrome 33.5 (32.9, 33.2, 33.3, 31.7, 31.1, 31.3)
IE 16.4 (17.3, 18.2, 20.1, 21.4, 20.8, 19.1, 19.6)
Firefox 9.0 (10.5, 10.5, 10.1, 9.7, 9.8, 10.4)
Opera 1.9 (2.1, 1.8, 1.9, 1.8, 1.6, 2.0, 1.7, 2.0)
All Others 2.7 (3.2, 3.0, 2.6, 2.6, 2.7, 3.4, 2.1)

Safari and Chrome are up, meaning IE and Firefox are down.

The Firefox figure above is the lowest ever recorded since 
measurements began in 2008.  On the Linux platform, Chrome 
visits have now passed the once-dominant Firefox.

The sample size was 21968 visits by humans. 


Search Engines Share
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Percentage breakup of visits coming via search engines 
for July 1st to 15th, 2013:-

Google 87.3 (87.8, 88.6, 88.1, 86.9, 86.1, 87.4, 87.9)
Bing  6.2 (6.5, 5.7, 6.6, 7.2, 7.4, 6.8, 6.5, 6.3, 5.4)
Yahoo 4.4 (3.7, 3.4, 3.1, 3.4, 3.6, 3.1, 3.3, 3.6, 3.8)
All others 2.1 (1.9, 2.2, 2.2, 2.5, 2.9, 2.8, 2.3, 2.8)

For the last month, the share for 'Bing + Yahoo' has been 
over 10%.  I'm sure they are breaking out the champagne at 
Bing headquarters, but interpretation depends on your 
viewpoint.  Like 87% is quite a healthy market share.
I always think 'Pepsi versus Coke'.

Both Bing and Yahoo have improved in recent times, 
and all three players have worked hard on the presentation 
of their image-search results.  Just in passing, the new 
Yahoo mail is a disaster - a specification, usability, 
programming and testing disgrace as the forums gleefully 
recount in great detail.

The total number of searches in this sample was 12672, 
including 5439 of 11067 searches (49%) via Google where the 
search string was suppressed allegedly for privacy reasons. 
This measured figure is a slight drop from a high of 52%.

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