Latest Stats as at 30/10/2011.
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These figures cover the 15-day period 1/10/2011 to 15/10/2011.


Operating System Market Share
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For the period 1st to 15th October 2011, these percentage figures 
are based on visits, with earlier figures in brackets:-

Windows-7 31.0 (31.7, 31.4, 30.7, 29.9, 30.2, 27.5, 27.9) 
XP 30.1 (29.7, 30.5, 31.4, 31.4, 31.7, 32.7, 35.5, 35.6)
Vista 10.5 (10.2, 10.7, 10.5, 11.2, 11.4, 11.7, 10.5, 12.1)
Other Windows 1.9 (1.7, 1.6, 1.2, 1.4, 1.2, 1.7, 1.3, 1.8)
Mac 12.4 (12.0, 12.1, 12.1, 11.6, 10.9, 11.4, 11.0, 11.1)
iPhone etc 8.4 (9.0, 8.4, 8.2, 8.4, 7.9, 8.8, 6.5, 5.6, 4.9)
Android 2.1 (1.9, 1.7, 1.5, 1.7, 1.9, 1.9, 1.9, 1.4, 1.1) 
Other Mobiles 2.9 (2.8, 2.9, 3.3, 3.4, 3.6, 3.4, 4.2, 3.3)
Linux 0.7 (0.9, 0.7, 1.0, 1.0, 1.1, 0.8, 1.1, 1.1, 1.0, 1.0) 

The new figures are a bit odd in that Windows-7 has dropped
a little, while XP and Vista have increased a little.  
However, the long term trends remain - Windows-7 has passed XP.

Linux measured 0.7% whilst Android is over 2.0% for the first time.

Within the "Other Mobiles" category, Nokia/Symbian has declined 
further and now has less visits than Blackberry. 

The total sample size above was 15888.


Browser Breakup
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Percentages of visits for the period 1st to 15th October 2011:-

IE 41.0 (41.7, 42.4, 42.0, 41.2, 39.0, 41.8, 45.4, 47.0)
Safari 19.5 (19.8, 19.3, 18.5, 18.5, 17.8, 19.5, 16.0)
FF 18.6 (18.6, 19.0, 20.2, 20.4, 23.4, 19.2, 19.0)  
Chrome 17.1 (16.2, 15.3, 15.0, 15.3, 14.9, 15.0, 14.4)
Opera 2.1 (2.0, 2.4, 2.3, 2.4, 2.3, 2.8, 2.2, 2.0, 1.8)
All Others 1.7 (1.7, 1.9, 2.0, 2.2, 2.5, 2.3, 2.4, 1.8)

The rise of Chrome continues.  

The sample size was 15961 visits by humans. 


Search Engines Share
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Percentage breakup of visits coming via search engines 
for October 1st to 15th, 2011:-

Google 90.5 (91.1, 89.7, 90.5, 90.6, 90.5, 89.9, 90.6)
Yahoo 3.4 (3.5, 4.5, 3.6, 3.7, 2.8, 3.2, 3.1, 3.0, 2.5)
Bing 3.4 (2.8, 3.3, 3.6, 3.5, 3.6, 3.7, 3.6, 3.5, 3.2)
All others 2.7 (2.6, 2.4, 2.3, 2.2, 3.1, 3.2, 2.6, 3.1)

Nothing to report.

The sample size above was 11622 visits.  


Traffic Surges
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Over 2600 people came to look at this pic of a man smoking 
on the toilet:-

http://www.nsma.org.au/pics2006/toilet.jpg

Similarly, over 2600 came to look at a chubby girl smoking:- 

http://www.nsma.org.au/pics2008/fatgirl.jpg

These surges are visits comprising just one hit and they have 
been excluded from the analysis given above 
for operating systems and browsers. 
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