Latest Stats as at 18/8/2010.
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These figures cover the 15-day period 1/8/2010 to 15/8/2010.

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Introduction
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A fairly quiet two weeks.  No surges of traffic worth reporting, 
and no new errors discovered.


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

XP 46.2 (47.4, 46.3, 48.8, 47.4, 48.8, 48.6, 48.1, 46.6, 49.4, 49.0)
Vista 17.7 (17.5, 19.0, 18.9,  20.1, 19.5, 20.6, 20.8, 22.4, 21.9)
Windows-7 16.4 (16.1, 14.7, 14.1, 13.5, 12.9, 12.3, 11.4, 11.4, 10.4) 
Other Windows 2.4 (2.7, 2.9, 2.6, 2.6, 2.8, 2.8, 3.0, 2.5 (2.7, 4.0)
Mac 11.2 (10.6, 11.0, 10.4, 11.0, 11.0, 10.6, 11.6, 11.2, 10.4, 10.4)
iPhone etc 2.9 (2.5, 2.7, 2.1, 1.9, 1.7, 1.8, 2.0, 2.4, 2.1, 1.9)
Other Mobiles 2.2 (2.3, 1.9, 2.1, 2.2, 1.8, 1.8, 1.7, 2.0, 1.8, 1.7)
Linux 1.0 (1.0, 1.5, 1.0, 1.3, 1.4, 1.5, 1.4, 1.4, 1.4, 1.3, 1.2) 

The "iPhone" result now includes both iPods and iPads. There were 84 
iPad and 98 iPod visits, compared with 416 iPhone visits. 

As before, the growth in smart mobile phones 
counters the slow decline in Linux and pre-XP Windows.

The total sample size was 20932 visits by humans.

A small number of visits are excluded from the above results
because the Operating System is not given.  Some of these
are probably Apple computers, but many are likely to be very early 
versions of Windows.  In the worst case, the figure given 
above as 2.4% for Other Windows would rise to be about 2.8%.
A handful are still using Netscape 3 and Netscape 4. 

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

IE 53.2 52.9 (51.7, 53.3, 52.4, 54.6, 54.6, 54.4, 52.3, 55.3, 57.6)
FF 23.5 25.0 (25.3, 25.0, 25.7, 24.4, 24.7, 24.5, 26.0, 25.4, 23.5)  
Safari 11.9 11.1 (11.5, 10.3, 11.0, 10.4, 10.6, 11.5, 11.5, 9.8, 9.6)
Chrome 7.4 7.3 (8.1, 7.8, 7.3, 6.9, 6.6, 6.2, 6.3, 5.9, 5.4, 5.7)
Opera 1.8 1.7 (1.5, 1.6, 1.7, 1.7, 1.6, 1.6, 1.7, 1.5, 1.7, 1.5)
All Others 2.2 2.0 (1.9, 1.9, 1.9, 2.0, 1.8, 1.8, 2.2, 2.1, 2.2)
  
Not a good result for Firefox.

The sample size was 21515 visits by humans.

 
Search Engines Share
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Percentage breakup of visits coming via search engines 
for August 1st to 15th, 2010:-

Google 90.0 90.1 (89.8, 90.6, 91.1, 89.8, 90.7, 90.5, 90.1, 90.6)
Yahoo 4.6 4.5 (4.5, 3.9, 3.7, 3.7, 3.7, 3.8, 4.4, 4.5, 4.9, 4.2)
Microsoft 3.1 2.9 (2.8, 3.0, 2.9, 3.7, 3.0, 2.9, 2.7, 2.5, 3.5)
All others 2.3 2.5 (2.9, 2.4, 2.5, 2.8, 2.6, 2.8, 2.7, 2.4, 2.6)

The sample size above was 12450 searches.

The above figures are "whole of world" results across all 
continents, but are biased by Australian and USA visitors.  
Yahoo figures are boosted by popularity in Asia and the USA.  
Microsoft's Bing is popular in the USA and also in Australia.  
Both Yahoo and Bing are unpopular in Europe, especially Scandinavia.

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