Latest Stats as at 19/9/2012
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These figures cover the 15-day period 1/9/2012 to 15/9/2012.

The Bondi Kite Flying day was held on Sunday 9th September.  
Already the relevant pages are down to one or two visits per day, 
way below the 33 visits on both the 8th and 9th of September.


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

Windows-7 34.4 (32.4, 31.7, 32.5, 30.5, 32.6) 
XP 19.8 (23.2, 25.0, 23.3, 21.1, 22.3, 23.0)
Vista 5.0 (5.1, 4.7, 5.4, 5.7, 6.4, 6.8, 6.6)
Pre-XP Windows 0.6 (1.0, 0.9, 0.9, 1.0, 0.9)
Mac 12.6 (11.3, 11.9, 12.4, 12.0, 12.3, 12.4)
iPhone etc 19.7 (19.2, 18.5, 18.2, 21.4, 18.1)
Android 3.9 (4.1, 3.5, 3.7, 4.2, 3.5, 3.1, 2.9) 
Other Mobiles 3.2 (3.0, 2.9, 2.7, 3.1, 2.9, 3.0)
Linux 0.7 (0.7, 0.8, 0.8, 0.9, 0.8, 0.5, 0.8)

I have been expecting a big rise for Android smartphones, 
but it hasn't happened yet.  

The total sample size above was 18687.


Browser Breakup
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Percentages of visits for the period 1st to 15th September 2012:-

IE 30.0 (31.5, 33.3, 31.3, 28.4, 31.0, 32.0, 36.7)
Safari 29.2 (27.7, 27.6, 27.0, 30.2, 27.3, 26.4)
Chrome 23.0 (23.7, 21.6, 22.8, 23.1, 22.5, 22.3)
Firefox 13.7 (13.2, 13.7, 15.0, 14.2, 15.4, 15.5)
Opera 2.3 (2.1, 2.1, 2.3, 2.2, 2.3, 2.2, 2.3, 1.9)
All Others 1.8 (1.8, 1.7, 1.6, 1.9, 1.7, 1.5, 1.6)

Safari is drawing close to Internet Explorer.

Opera owes its continued life to the success of 
Opera Mobile as a browser on smartphones.
 
The sample size was 18815 visits by humans. 



Search Engines Share
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Percentage breakup of visits coming via search engines 
for September 1st to 15th, 2012:-

Google 90.5 (90.6, 88.7, 88.4, 89.6, 90.3, 90.7)
Yahoo 4.0 (3.5, 4.7, 4.6, 4.2, 3.7, 3.4, 3.0, 3.1)
Bing 2.9 (2.7, 3.2, 3.3, 2.9, 3.0, 2.8, 2.9, 3.6)
All others 2.7 (3.3, 3.3, 3.6, 3.3, 3.1, 3.1, 3.4)

The total number of searches in this sample was 13084,  
including 2533 out of 11836 searches via Google where the 
search string was "not provided" allegedly for privacy reasons.

In most of these cases Google returns an empty string, 
but in some cases there is no search string provided at all.

From a browser point of view, I am now seeing "not provided" via 
Firefox 56%, Chrome 35%, IE 17%, Opera 12% and Safari 2%.
All these percentages are up on previous results.
 
The "Others" category is not growing.  But the on-line industry 
magazines are full of gossip about a proposed Facebook 
search engine.  Don't hold your breath while waiting. 
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