Latest Stats as at 6/10/2010.
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These figures cover the 15-day period 16/9/2010 to 30/9/2010.

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Introduction
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The latest figures put Windows 7 over 1% ahead of Vista.


Operating System Market Share
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For the period 15th to 30th September 2010, these percentage figures 
are based on visits, with earlier figures in brackets:-

XP 45.0 (45.0, 45.1, 46.2, 47.4, 46.3, 48.8, 47.4, 48.8, 48.6)
Vista 17.1 (18.0, 18.3, 17.7, 17.5, 19.0, 18.9,  20.1, 19.5, 20.6)
Windows-7 18.2 (18.1, 17.9, 16.4, 16.1, 14.7, 14.1, 13.5, 12.9) 
Other Windows 2.4 (2.3, 2.5, 2.4, 2.7, 2.9, 2.6, 2.6, 2.8, 2.8)
Mac 10.9 (10.4, 10.2, 11.2, 10.6, 11.0, 10.4, 11.0, 11.0, 10.6)
iPhone etc 3.4 (3.1, 2.8, 2.9, 2.5, 2.7, 2.1, 1.9, 1.7, 1.8, 2.0)
Other Mobiles 2.1 (2.0, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 1.9, 2.1, 2.2, 1.8, 1.8)
Linux 0.9 (1.1, 1.1, 1.0, 1.0, 1.5, 1.0, 1.3, 1.4, 1.5, 1.4, 1.4) 

The "iPhone" result includes both iPods and iPads. There were 150 
iPad and 115 iPod visits, compared with 526 iPhone visits.  

iPads and Android phones are both hot right now. 

Android on 92 visits is battling it out with the Blackberry 
and Nokia's Symbian, but Apple with its iPhone is way ahead,
with more market share than all other brands combined. 

At 0.9%, the lowest Linux figure all year.

The total sample size was 23593 visits by humans.  


Browser Breakup
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Percentages of visits for the period 16th to 30th September 2010:-

IE 55.0 (54.0, 53.2, 53.2, 52.9, 51.7, 53.3, 52.4, 54.6, 54.6)
FF 21.5 (22.4, 24.1, 23.5, 25.0, 25.3, 25.0, 25.7, 24.4, 24.7)  
Safari 12.6 (11.5, 10.9, 11.9, 11.1, 11.5, 10.3, 11.0, 10.4)
Chrome 7.7 (8.2, 7.8, 7.4, 7.3, 8.1, 7.8, 7.3, 6.9, 6.6, 6.2)
Opera 1.7 (1.9, 2.0, 1.8, 1.7, 1.5, 1.6, 1.7, 1.7, 1.6, 1.6, 1.7)
All Others 1.5 (2.1, 1.9, 2.2, 2.0, 1.9, 1.9, 1.9, 2.0, 1.8, 1.8)
  
Firefox has declined from a recent high of 25.7 whilst Internet 
Explorer seems to be having a revival.  My theory would be that 
people with a new PC are finding the new IE8 satisfactory 
and not changing to Firefox.

At 12.6, that's the highest percentage even seen for Safari.

The sample size was 24117 visits by humans.

 
Search Engines Share
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Percentage breakup of visits coming via search engines 
for September 16th to 30th, 2010:-

Google 90.5 (90.7, 91.2, 90.0, 90.1, 89.8, 90.6, 91.1, 89.8, 90.7)
Yahoo 3.3 (3.3, 3.4, 4.6, 4.5, 4.5, 3.9, 3.7, 3.7, 3.7, 3.8, 4.4)
Bing 2.9 (3.2, 2.6, 3.1, 2.9, 2.8, 3.0, 2.9, 3.7, 3.0, 2.9, 2.7)
All others 3.3 (2.8, 2.8, 2.3, 2.5, 2.9, 2.4, 2.5, 2.8, 2.6, 2.8)

Bing from Microsoft has dipped below the "All Others" category.

The sample size above was 14184 searches.

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Now a traffic surge from Israel.

During the last two weeks, a picture of a rather thin celebrity 
having a cigarette was linked onto a forum based in Israel from
the Non Smokers' web site.

This produced 1823 hits over 1323 visits, from 1066 different 
computers calling from 1053 different IP addresses.  The visits 
were spread over 8 days and relate to several postings to the 
one forum thread. 

The breakup of Operating Systems over the 1323 visits was XP 54%,
Vista 7%, Windows-7 38% and everything else 1%.  

Hardly any Linux or Apple gear, no iPhones, no earlier Windows.  

And these people have dropped Vista like a hot potato. 

The Browser breakup was even more amazing: Internet Explorer 35%,
Firefox 26%, Chrome 36% and all other browsers 3%.

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