Latest Stats as at 6/9/2009.
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These figures cover the 16-day period 16/8/2009 to 31/8/2009.

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Vista Market Share
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For period 1st to 15th August 2009, the percentage figures are 
based on visits, and earlier figures are in brackets:-

XP 57.6 (was 57.1, 58.1, 58.9, 61.6, 62.1, 61.8, 63.6, 64.0, 64.5)
Vista 25.8 (was 25.6, 25.3, 25.0, 24.9, 24.6, 24.0, 23.0, 22.8, 22.1)
Windows-7 1.0 (was 0.8, 0.7, 0.9, 0.6, 0.4, 0.4) 
Other Windows 3.8 (was 4.1, 4.1, 4.1, 4.0, 3.7, 3.3, 3.8, 3.5, 3.7)
Mac 8.5 (was 9.0, 8.2, 7.7, 6.3, 6.5, 7.7, 7.0, 7.1, 7.2, 7.4, 5.9)
Linux 1.2 (was 1.4, 1.5, 1.4, 1.1, 1.1, 1.0, 0.8, 1.2, 1.0, 1.2, 0.8) 
Mobiles 2.1 (was 2.0, 2.1, 2.0, 1.6, 1.6, 1.8, 1.8, 1.4, 1.5, 1.5, 1.4)

Initial calculations gave a Mobiles figure of 2.9%, a big jump.  
However some of the visits from NEC and Samsung mobiles included
Google's robot looking for pages aimed at mobile phones; 
the search engine pretends to be a mobile phone in order 
to get served the mobile phone version of the page.
 
The corrected figure is a more reasonable 2.1%.

The iPhone is just under 50% of the visits from mobile phones.

The total sample size was 14683 visits by humans.
 
Browser Breakup
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Percentages of visits for the period 16th to 31st August 2009.

IE 62.0 (was 62.3, 62.5, 60.7, 64.2, 62.8, 62.4, 62.7, 63.2, 63.9, 66.5, 68.6)
FF 24.8 (was 24.1, 23.8, 25.9, 24.9, 25.8, 26.1, 26.0, 26.4, 25.7, 24.1, 23.1)  
Safari 7.0 (was 7.5, 6.6, 6.0, 5.4, 5.5, 6.0, 5.9, 5.5, 5.9, 5.4, 4.7)
Chrome 2.6 (was 2.7, 2.8, 2.9, 2.2, 2.3, 1.9, 1.9, 1.8, 1.6, 1.2, 1.0)
Opera 1.9 (was 1.8, 2.3, 2.4, 2.0, 2.2, 1.6, 1.7, 1.5, 1.3, 1.1, 1.0)
All Others 1.6 (was 1.7, 1.9, 2.1, 1.5, 1.5, 1.9, 1.7, 1.5, 1.6, 1.6, 1.5)

No surprises.

The total sample size was 11212 visits by humans.

Search Engines Share
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Percentage breakup of visits coming via search engines 
for August 16th to 31st, 2009:-

Google 88.0 (was 87.2, 85.4, 86.1, 86.0, 84.8, 85.4, 83.6, 85.6, 87.3)
Yahoo 6.3 (was 7.0, 7.5, 7.4, 6.5, 7.7, 7.8, 10.3, 7.8, 6.7, 6.3, 7.1)
Microsoft 2.3 (was 2.5, 3.3, 3.2, 4.2, 3.3, 3.1, 2.4, 2.8, 2.4, 2.9)
All others 3.4 (was 3.3, 3.8, 3.3, 3.2, 4.2, 3.8, 3.8, 3.8, 3.6)

The sample size here was 11127.  

A further decline for the Microsoft / Yahoo consortium. 
The figure for Google is the highest ever recorded.
The Bing Blip has passed.  

However, Bing actually works better than 
the old MSN.  It can actually identify obscure words
to old songs from the 1970's and name the song.  
Google has been able to do this for several years.
 
Repeat: On 17th August, the Irish IT consultant Gerry McGovern 
explained how Yahoo's customers were their advertisers, 
whilst Google's customers were you and me. 

Most IT and financial journalists must think this
is some sort of Irish joke.  Surely such a huge problem
can't be explained with a one-liner?

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