Latest Stats as at 22/9/2011. ============================= These figures cover the 15-day period 1/9/2011 to 15/9/2011. The latest figures put Windows-7 ahead of Windows XP and Safari ahead of Firefox. Operating System Market Share ============================== For the period 1st to 15th September 2011, these percentage figures are based on visits, with earlier figures in brackets:- Windows-7 31.4 (30.7, 29.9, 30.2, 27.5, 27.9, 28.0, 28.2, 26.4) XP 30.5 (31.4, 31.4, 31.7, 32.7, 35.5, 35.6, 37.4, 37.3, 37.4) Vista 10.7 (10.5, 11.2, 11.4, 11.7, 10.5, 12.1, 12.1, 12.4, 13.6) Other Windows 1.6 (1.2, 1.4, 1.2, 1.7, 1.3, 1.8, 2.0, 1.7, 1.9) Mac 12.1 (12.1, 11.6, 10.9, 11.4, 11.0, 11.1, 10.3, 11.5, 11.1) iPhone etc 8.4 (8.2, 8.4, 7.9, 8.8, 6.5, 5.6, 4.9, 5.5, 5.5, 4.8) Android 1.7 (1.5, 1.7, 1.9, 1.9, 1.9, 1.4, 1.1, 1.1, 1.0, 0.8) Other Mobiles 2.9 (3.3, 3.4, 3.6, 3.4, 4.2, 3.3, 3.0, 3.0, 2.9) Linux 0.7 (1.0, 1.0, 1.1, 0.8, 1.1, 1.1, 1.0, 1.0, 0.8, 0.8, 0.6) Right on schedule the graphs have crossed over, and Windows-7 is now ahead of XP. The Apple share remains over 20%. Linux has dropped alarmingly. This seems to be across all flavours of Linux, but especially Ubuntu. The magazines did not like Ubuntu's new Unity desktop. All the old guard are installing Debian or Linux Mint instead. The rot has started to set in for Nokia/Symbian with a drop of about 10% in visits, whilst Blackberry visits increased. The total sample size above was 15477. Browser Breakup =============== Percentages of visits for the period 1st to 15th September 2011:- IE 42.4 (42.0, 41.2, 39.0, 41.8, 45.4, 47.0, 50.1, 47.8, 49.1) Safari 19.3 (18.5, 18.5, 17.8, 19.5, 16.0, 14.9, 13.4, 15.4, 15.1) FF 19.0 (20.2, 20.4, 23.4, 19.2, 19.0, 19.7, 19.0, 20.2, 20.5) Chrome 15.3 (15.0, 15.3, 14.9, 15.0, 14.4, 14.3, 13.6, 12.8, 11.7) Opera 2.1 (2.4, 2.3, 2.4, 2.3, 2.8, 2.2, 2.0, 1.8, 1.8, 1.4, 2.2) All Others 1.9 (2.0, 2.2, 2.5, 2.3, 2.4, 1.8, 1.8, 1.9, 2.0, 1.8) Yikes, the current measurement puts Safari ahead of Firefox. The sample size was 15532 visits by humans. Search Engines Share ==================== Percentage breakup of visits coming via search engines for September 1st to 15th, 2011:- Google 89.7 (90.5, 90.6, 90.5, 89.9, 90.6, 90.3, 91.8, 90.9) Yahoo 4.5 (3.6, 3.7, 2.8, 3.2, 3.1, 3.0, 2.5, 2.8, 3.1, 3.2) Bing 3.3 (3.6, 3.5, 3.6, 3.7, 3.6, 3.5, 3.2, 3.2, 3.4, 4.3) All others 2.4 (2.3, 2.2, 3.1, 3.2, 2.6, 3.1, 2.5, 3.1, 3.0) Above is the lowest figure recorded for Google since early April. Foolishly, Google has been making minor changes to the layout almost daily, and even returning lots of paid links ahead of the actual results without any background shading. People are fickle. Google fiddles with a successful product at their peril. The sample size above was 11425 visits. ================================ ===============================