Latest Stats as at 3/11/2013
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These figures cover the 16 day period 16/10/2013 to 31/10/2013.

The number of visits and searches is rising rapidly at the moment.
Unfortunately, it is suspected that a lot of the increase is 
useless repeated short visits and also visits from machines 
pretending to be humans.  It's not easy to separate these cases
from genuine short visits and genuine repeat visits.  

There are now lots of genuine visits where a mobile phone looks 
at one page and then two hours later looks at another page, 
but the phone has cached all the graphics and the second visit 
looks quite odd when seen from the server end.
Often the second visit is not from the same IP address.


Operating System Market Share
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For the period 16th to 31st of October, these percentage figures 
are based on visits, with earlier figures in brackets:-

Windows-7 33.4 (32.8, 30.1, 29.7, 29.9, 30.2, 30.7, 30.5, 32.2) 
XP 8.5 (8.9, 8.7, 8.3, 8.6, 8.9, 9.3, 9.4, 10.0, 10.0, 11.3)
Windows-8 5.0 (5.6, 5.0, 4.8, 4.3, 4.6, 4.2, 3.9, 4.0, 4.0)
Vista 2.8 (2.8, 2.6, 2.7, 2.8, 2.8, 3.1, 3.2, 3.4, 3.7, 3.4)
Pre-XP Windows 1.2 (1.6, 0.9, 0.9, 0.8, 0.8, 0.6, 0.7, 0.7)
Mac 10.7 (10.2, 10.2, 10.5, 10.3, 10.5, 9.3, 9.5, 10.1, 10.2)
iPhone/iPad/iPod 26.7 (25.6, 30.4, 31.0, 31.5, 30.3, 29.7, 31.3)
Android 9.5 (9.9, 9.4, 9.1, 9.1, 9.0, 10.5, 9.1, 8.8, 8.3) 
WinPhone 0.2 (0.3, 0.2, 0.3, 0.3, 0.2, 0.3, 0.2, 0.2, 0.2)
Other Mobiles 1.2 (1.7, 1.7, 1.7, 1.8, 1.6, 1.6, 1.5, 1.6)
Linux 0.7 (0.7, 0.9, 1.0, 0.9, 1.0, 0.6, 0.7, 0.6, 1.0)

The unexplained drop in the number of visits from iPhones/iPads
continues but it's not as severe.  It remains unexplained.

The surge in visits from ancient computers, especially Windows 
2000, 2003 and NT has been traced to Russia as the major culprit.
The Pre-XP result has now declined to a more realistic 1.2%.

Desktops/Laptops 62% and Mobiles/Tablets 38%.

The total sample size above was 30924.


Browser Breakup
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Percentages of visits for the period 16th to 31st October 2013:-

Safari 32.5 (31.5, 36.2, 37.0, 37.4, 35.5, 34.8, 36.5, 34.1)
Chrome 35.1 (35.4, 31.5, 31.7, 31.1, 33.7, 33.3, 33.5, 32.9)
IE 18.0 (19.1, 18.2, 17.5, 17.5, 16.8, 17.0, 16.4, 17.3)
Firefox 10.0 (9.1, 9.1, 9.4, 9.4, 9.4, 8.8, 9.0, 10.5, 10.5)
Opera 1.3 (1.8, 1.9, 1.6, 1.8, 1.7, 2.0, 1.9, 2.1, 1.8, 1.9)
All Others 3.0 (3.1, 3.1, 2.8, 3.0, 2.9, 4.0, 2.7, 3.2, 3.0)

The drop in visits from iPhones/iPads is still causing
a corresponding drop in the result for the Safari browser.  

When the percentages are calculated, it looks like all 
the other browsers have jumped.  But, in actual visits, 
the use of Chrome (for example) has not increased. 

Opera is in serious decline.  Its popularity has receded 
and is now mainly in Scandinavian countries.  

The sample size was 31053 visits by humans.


Browser Breakup for Desktops/Laptops 
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Chrome 43.1 (43.4, 40.2, 40.9)
IE 28.6 (29.5, 30.8, 29.6)
Firefox 15.9 (14.5, 15.6, 15.9)
Safari 9.1 (9.1, 9.6, 10.3)
Opera 0.8 (0.9, 1.4, 1.2)
All Others 2.5 (2.5, 2.4, 2.1)

The sample size above was 19317 visits by humans.


Browser Breakup for Mobiles/Tablets 
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Safari 71.8 (69.8, 74.2, 74.7)
Chrome 21.8 (22.5, 19.1, 18.9)
Opera 2.0 (3.1, 2.5, 2.1)
IE 0.6 (0.6, 0.6, 0.6)
Firefox 0.2 (0.3, 0.1, 0.2)
All Others 3.7 (3.7, 3.5, 3.5)

The sample size above was 11607 visits by humans.


Search Engines Share
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Percentage breakup of visits coming via search engines 
for October 16th to 31st, 2013:-

Google 87.2 89.1 (88.1, 89.6, 89.6, 89.1, 87.6, 87.3)
Bing  7.3 6.0 (6.5, 5.5, 5.5, 5.7, 6.5, 6.2, 6.5, 5.7)
Yahoo 3.6 3.1 (3.4, 3.2, 3.4, 3.5, 3.8, 4.4, 3.7, 3.4)
All others 1.9 1.8 (2.0, 1.7, 1.5, 1.7, 2.1, 2.1, 1.9)

Previously, I had not realised that a Windows 8 machine 
comes with Bing ready to go with a single tap or click. 
Installing Google instead of Bing takes a little diligence.

The total number of searches in this sample was 19162, 
including 13567 of 16711 searches (81%) via Google 
where the search string was suppressed, allegedly 
for privacy reasons. Compared with a year ago, analysis
of search strings for keywords is pretty much useless. 

This 81% figure above is up from 65% two months weeks ago 
and 27% at the start of the year. 

I am now using the concept of "landing pages" to measure 
which pages on my web sites are receiving the most visits 
via search engines, regardless of the actual search string.

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