Latest Stats as at 4/10/2012
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These figures cover the 15-day period 16/9/2012 to 30/9/2012.

There are now so many Apple devices out there that 
the Safari browser has rated higher than Internet Explorer.

Operating System Market Share
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For the period 16th to 30th of September, these percentage figures 
are based on visits, with earlier figures in brackets:-

Windows-7 33.8 (34.4, 32.4, 31.7, 32.5) 
XP 18.2 (19.8, 23.2, 25.0, 23.3, 21.1)
Vista 5.2 (5.0, 5.1, 4.7, 5.4, 5.7, 6.4)
Pre-XP Windows 0.7 (0.6, 1.0, 0.9, 0.9)
Mac 12.4 (12.6, 11.3, 11.9, 12.4, 12.0)
iPhone etc 21.1 (19.7, 19.2, 18.5, 18.2)
Android 5.0 (3.9, 4.1, 3.5, 3.7, 4.2, 3.5) 
Other Mobiles 2.8 (3.2, 3.0, 2.9, 2.7, 3.1)
Linux 0.7 (0.7, 0.7, 0.8, 0.8, 0.9, 0.8)

The iPhone/iPad result is up, and Android has reached 5%.

The total sample size above was 18529.


Browser Breakup
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Percentages of visits for the period 16th to 30th September 2012:-

IE 28.0 (30.0, 31.5, 33.3, 31.3, 28.4, 31.0)
Safari 30.2 (29.2, 27.7, 27.6, 27.0, 30.2)
Chrome 24.0 (23.0, 23.7, 21.6, 22.8, 23.1)
Firefox 13.7 (13.7, 13.2, 13.7, 15.0, 14.2)
Opera 2.5 (2.3, 2.1, 2.1, 2.3, 2.2, 2.3, 2.2)
All Others 1.6 (1.8, 1.8, 1.7, 1.6, 1.9, 1.7)

Safari has passed Internet Explorer.  

This is quite an achievement, since IE has been the top dog
for over a decade ago, ever since IE-3 passed Netscape-3.

Oh dear, my spell checker has never heard of Netscape.

The sample size was 18640 visits by humans. 



Search Engines Share
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Percentage breakup of visits coming via search engines 
for September 16th to 30th, 2012:-

Google 90.4 (90.5, 90.6, 88.7, 88.4, 89.6)
Yahoo 4.2 (4.0, 3.5, 4.7, 4.6, 4.2, 3.7, 3.4)
Bing 2.5 (2.9, 2.7, 3.2, 3.3, 2.9, 3.0, 2.8)
All others 3.0 (2.7, 3.3, 3.3, 3.6, 3.3, 3.1)

The total number of searches in this sample was 12986,  
including 2670 of 11733 searches (23%) via Google where the 
search string was "not provided" allegedly for privacy reasons.

From a browser point of view, I am now seeing "not provided" 
via Firefox 58%, Chrome 34%, IE 16%, Opera 11% and Safari 4%.
Here there has been an increase for Safari, but the other 
percentages are fractionally lower than in previous measurements.

Yahoo and Bing are not playing this "privacy" game at all,
not a single instance ever.

Moving along, you can find articles saying how wonderful Bing is 
every day of the week, but the users I see seem to prefer Google.

Blekko is another imposter - I read an article this week saying
how wonderful it is; but I find people using it are extremely rare.
So I did a search to make sure it does get into the results,
and indeed it does - the only visit from Blekko was mine.
Needless to say, it's pretty annoying compared to Google.

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