My apologies for not sending these figures out earlier, 
a few other things jumped the queue.

Figures for 1/12 to 15/12 will follow within in a few days. 


Latest Stats as at 6/12/2009.
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These figures cover the 15-day period 16/11/2009 to 30/11/2009.

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Operating System Market Share
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For period 16th to 30th November 2009, these percentage figures 
are based on visits, and some earlier figures are in brackets:-

XP 54.8 (was 56.1, 56.3, 57.1, 57.6, 58.3, 57.6, 57.1, 58.1, 58.9)
Vista 24.8 (was 25.1, 25.8, 25.5, 25.4, 25.6, 25.8, 25.6, 25.3, 25.0)
Windows-7 3.4 (was 2.8, 1.9, 1.5, 1.2, 1.1, 1.0, 0.8, 0.7, 0.9, 0.6, 0.4) 
Other Windows 3.2 (was 3.0, 3.2, 3.4, 3.4, 3.8, 3.8, 4.1, 4.1, 4.1)
Mac 9.5 (was 9.2, 9.2, 8.7, 8.7, 8.0, 8.5, 9.0, 8.2, 7.7, 6.3, 6.5)
iPhone 1.4
Other Mobiles 1.5 (was 2.6 including iPhones, 2.3, 2.6, 2.5, 2.1, 2.1)
Linux 1.3 (was 1.2, 1.4, 1.2, 1.2, 1.2, 1.2, 1.4, 1.5, 1.4, 1.1, 1.1) 

The total sample size was 16086 visits by humans.

I have started a new category for the iPhone; 
previously the iPhone was just a part of Mobiles.

In the past month I have had two long demos of the iPhone.
I'm impressed, the add-in applications are magnificent.
Other companies should be very worried since the iPhone 
has almost half the market and the rest are 
relegated to playing catchup.  This week the iPhone
had a full page advert in the Sydney Morning Herald.   
 
Browser Breakup
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Percentages of visits for the period 16th to 30th November 2009:-

IE 59.9 (was 60.0, 60.6, 60.6, 60.6, 62.0, 62.0, 62.3, 62.5)
FF 24.5 (was 24.8, 24.6, 24.7, 25.7, 24.2, 24.8, 24.1, 23.8, 25.9)  
Safari 8.4 (was 8.1, 8.0, 7.7, 7.7, 7.2, 7.0, 7.5, 6.6, 6.0, 5.4)
Chrome 3.9 (was 4.0, 3.2, 3.5, 2.8, 3.3, 2.6, 2.7, 2.8, 2.9, 2.2)
Opera 1.6 (was 1.5, 1.9, 1.9, 1.7, 1.9, 1.9, 1.8, 2.3, 2.4, 2.0)
All Others 1.7 (was 1.5, 1.7, 1.6, 1.5, 1.4, 1.6, 1.7, 1.9, 2.1)

The total sample size was 15859 visits by humans.

IE and Firefox continue their very slow decline.
That's the first IE figure under 60% I have ever recorded.
By comparison IE was 84% in 2002; it was only less than 60%
in the good old days when Netscape was king.

Search Engines Share
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Percentage breakup of visits coming via search engines 
for November 16th to 30th, 2009:-

Google 88.4 (was 87.7, 87.6, 87.5, 88.5, 89.4, 88.0, 87.2, 85.4, 86.1)
Yahoo 5.5 (was 5.8, 6.1, 6.1, 5.8, 5.3, 6.3, 7.0, 7.5, 7.4, 6.5, 7.7)
Microsoft 3.3 (was 3.9, 3.4, 3.5, 2.8, 2.3, 2.3, 2.5, 3.3, 3.2)
All others 2.8 (was 2.6, 2.9, 2.8, 2.9, 3.0, 3.4, 3.3, 3.8, 3.3)

Bing (Microsoft) and Yahoo have both declined a little.
The combined Yahoo/Bing share continues at under 10% of the total.
No new search engines are on the horizon.

The sample size here was 12472.

Sculpture By The Sea
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This ran from Thursday 29th October to Sunday 15th November.
Sure, that was weeks ago.  
The media and the masses have moved on to this week's trivia.

However, let's take a broad view of "Sculpture By The 
Sea" as an event and see what happened on the internet.

(1) Firstly, it's important to realise that it was very much 
a local event, with over 85% of searches for "sculpt" 
coming from Australian service providers.
Normally people come to the Bondi Beach Home Page from
all round the world. 

(2) Hits to big pictures.  
It's possible to count the number of times people 
have clicked on a thumbnail to view the larger picture.

Four weeks before: 166
Three weeks before: 157
Two weeks before: 152
One week before: 291
Opening Week: 857
Second week: 1219
Closing week: 1490
One week after: 505
Two weeks after: 547

(3) Searching for "Sculpture By The Sea" in search engines.
Here is a summary of all the searches directed to the
Bondi Beach Home Page where the letters "sculpt"
were included.

Four weeks before: 14
Three weeks before: 23
Two weeks before: 54
One week before: 120
Opening Week: 326
Second week: 309
Closing week: 327
One week after: 70
Two weeks after: 25

Clearly it's all over until next year.
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