Latest Stats as at 14/11/2008.
These figures cover the 16-day period 16/10/2008 to 31/10/2008. 
Sorry about the delay, more figures next week.

Vista Market Share
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For period 16th to 31st October 2008, figures based on visits:-

XP 69.9 (was 68.6, 69.2, 70.4, 71.6, 71.8)
Vista 17.0 (was 17.9, 18.3, 17.5, 15.9, 15.8)
Other Windows 4.7 (was 5.3, 4.5, 4.5, 4.0, 4.5, 5.6)
Mac 6.6 (was 6.6, 6.1, 6.0, 6.3, 5.8)
Linux 1.2 (was 1.0, 1.1, 1.2, 1.4, 1.4) 
Others 0.8 (was 0.7, 0.7, 0.4, 0.7, 0.6)

It appears that Vista has stalled and XP is increasing, 
but later figures for early November show Vista increasing again.

Wait for the next lot of figures on this one.

Press articles say Microsoft are furiously working on Windows 7 
- the succcessor to Vista.  
Like, if the punters won't buy Vista, then make them buy Windows 7.

 
  
Browser Breakup
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For the period 16-31 October:

IE 69.4 (was 68.9, 69.9, 69.7, 70.5, 71.4 and 72.0)
FF 22.6 (was 22.9, 22.3, 22.5, 21.7, 21.3)  
Safari 5.0 (was 5.0, 4.8, 4.4, 4.8, 4.8)
Opera 0.9 (was 0.9, 0.7, 0.9, 1.0, 1.1)
Chrome 0.8 (was 0.9, 0.7, 0.8)
All Others 1.4 (was 1.4, 1.7, 1.6, 1.9, 1.7)

Firefox growth has steadied off. 

Figures for early November show IE increasing and Firefox decreasing.

More figures next week.


Firefox 3 Takeup
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Not measured.


Search Engines Share
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Visits via search engines for October 16th to 31st.

Google 86.3 (was 87.0, 86.4, 87.8, 87.2, 85.7, 86.6, 86.2)
Yahoo 8.1 (was 7.5, 7.8, 6.8, 7.3, 7.3, 8.0, 7.5, 7.8)
Microsoft 2.5 (was 2.0, 2.3, 1.7, 2.0, 3.3, 2.6, 2.1, 2.3)
All others 3.1 (was 3.4, 3.5, 3.6, 3.5, 5.0, 5.0, 3.7, 3.7)

Small increases are seen for Yahoo amd Microsoft, 
but the "all others" category is in slow decline.  

Whizzy new search engines such as Cuil 
have disappeared off the radar.

I think much of the fluctuations seen above are just sampling error.

Visits via search engines are now about 53% of the 
total visits from real people using their browser.
Surfers used to use their bookmarks or they even typed the URL 
into their browser, but the trend is clearly towards using 
search engines, unless people are sent the link in an email 
or find a link to follow at another web site.

But fewer and fewer web sites have pages of suggested links 
that webmasters have compiled for their visitors to click.  
Keeping these links up-to-date takes too much effort.


Linux Distro Analysis
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Not measured.

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