Latest Stats as at 2/12/2012 ============================= These figures cover the 15-day period 16/11/2012 to 30/11/2012. Windows 8 has moved from 0.3% to 0.9% in two weeks. Operating System Market Share ============================== For the period 16th to 30th of November, these percentage figures are based on visits, with earlier figures in brackets:- Windows-7 36.3 (36.2, 35.8, 35.2, 33.8, 34.4, 32.4, 31.7) XP 16.0 (16.5, 17.2, 18.8, 18.2, 19.8, 23.2, 25.0, 23.3) Vista 5.3 (5.2, 5.1, 5.2, 5.2, 5.0, 5.1, 4.7, 5.4, 5.7) Pre-XP Windows 0.7 (0.6, 0.7, 0.8, 0.7, 0.6, 1.0, 0.9, 0.9) Windows-8 0.9 (0.3, 0.1) Mac 13.0 (12.5, 12.8, 12.8, 12.4, 12.6, 11.3, 11.9, 12.4) iPhone/iPad/iPod 20.5 (21.0, 21.1, 19.9, 21.1, 19.7, 19.2) Android 4.5 (4.6, 4.6, 4.2, 5.0, 3.9, 4.1, 3.5, 3.7, 4.2) Other Mobiles 1.8 (2.4, 2.0, 2.5, 2.8, 3.2, 3.0, 2.9, 2.7) Linux 0.8 (0.8, 0.7, 0.7, 0.7, 0.7, 0.7, 0.8, 0.8, 0.9) Windows 8 has arrived. The current result is 176 visits which is 0.864%. The ongoing boom in Android sales here and in North America is not yet reflected in people actually surfing the net with Android tablets or phones. All this Androids use must cover other tasks such as answering emails, sending texts or playing games. If you break the above results into two parts, namely desktops and mobiles you get: Desktops (including laptops): Windows 81%, Apple 18% and Linux 1%. Mobiles (including tablets and phones): Apple 75%, Android 17%, Windows 1% and Others 7%. The total sample size above was 20356. Desktop sample size 14850 and mobiles 5506. Browser Breakup =============== Percentages of visits for the period 16th to 30th November 2012:- Safari 29.9 (30.2, 30.4, 29.2, 30.2, 29.2, 27.7, 27.6) Chrome 27.5 (27.2, 26.4, 26.4, 24.0, 23.0, 23.7, 21.6) IE 26.2 (26.8, 27.2, 27.9, 28.0, 30.0, 31.5, 33.3, 31.3) Firefox 12.8 (12.2, 12.8, 12.7, 13.7, 13.7, 13.2, 13.7) Opera 2.1 (2.1, 1.8, 2.3, 2.5, 2.3, 2.1, 2.1, 2.3, 2.2) All Others 1.5 (1.5, 1.4, 1.5, 1.6, 1.8, 1.8, 1.7, 1.6) Nothing to report. The sample size was 20431 visits by humans. Search Engines Share ==================== Percentage breakup of visits coming via search engines for November 16th to 30th, 2012:- Google 89.2 (89.4, 89.5, 90.9, 90.4, 90.5, 90.6, 88.7) Yahoo 4.2 (3.9, 4.1, 3.4, 4.2, 4.0, 3.5, 4.7, 4.6, 4.2) Bing 3.3 (3.5, 3.3, 2.8, 2.5, 2.9, 2.7, 3.2, 3.3, 2.9) All others 3.3 (3.2, 3.1, 2.9, 3.0, 2.7, 3.3, 3.3, 3.6) Much of Yahoo's result comes from Yahoo Images - users use it. The total number of searches in this sample was 13567, including 2950 of 12104 searches (24%) via Google where the search string was "not provided" allegedly for privacy reasons. =============================== ============================