Latest Stats as at 3/12/2013
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These figures cover the 15 day period 16/11/2013 to 30/11/2013.


Operating System Market Share
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For the period 15th to 30th of November, these percentage figures 
are based on visits, with earlier figures in brackets:-

Windows-7 32.9 (32.8, 33.4, 32.8, 30.1, 29.7, 29.9, 30.2) 
XP 8.4 (8.3, 8.5, 8.9, 8.7, 8.3, 8.6, 8.9, 9.3, 9.4, 10.0)
Windows-8 4.8 (4.5, 5.0, 5.6, 5.0, 4.8, 4.3, 4.6, 4.2, 3.9)
Vista 2.6 (2.6, 2.8, 2.8, 2.6, 2.7, 2.8, 2.8, 3.1, 3.2, 3.4)
Pre-XP Windows 1.5 (1.2, 1.2, 1.6, 0.9, 0.9, 0.8, 0.8, 0.6)
Mac 10.2 (10.5, 10.7, 10.2, 10.2, 10.5, 10.3, 10.5, 9.3)
iPhone/iPad/iPod 26.2 (27.0, 26.7, 25.6, 30.4, 31.0, 31.5)
Android 11.0 (10.4, 9.5, 9.9, 9.4, 9.1, 9.1, 9.0, 10.5, 9.1) 
WinPhone 0.3 (0.3, 0.2, 0.3, 0.2, 0.3, 0.3, 0.2, 0.3, 0.2)
Other Mobiles 1.4 (1.4, 1.2, 1.7, 1.7, 1.7, 1.8, 1.6, 1.6)
Linux 0.7 (1.0, 0.7, 0.7, 0.9, 1.0, 0.9, 1.0, 0.6, 0.7)

Windows 7 has triumphed on the desktop while Windows 8 is in the 
doldrums. Microsoft has a sorry history of providing things their
customers don't want or things that are rough round the edges.  
Remember Windows 95 before Windows 98, Windows ME after 
Windows 98,  Windows Vista after XP and so quickly
replaced by Windows 7.  And now we have Windows 8.

It's clear that Windows 8 computers are not selling and it must 
be doing the hardware market a lot of damage.   I can only assume 
many Windows 8 computers are being converted back to Windows 7.

Problem - I think about half the Pre-XP Windows visits are fakes,
although they look like real visits.  To be investigated.

Desktops/Laptops 61% and Mobiles/Tablets 39%.

The total sample size above was 26623.


Browser Breakup
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Percentages of visits for the period 15th to 30th November 2013:-

Chrome 36.6 (35.5, 35.1, 35.4, 31.5, 31.7, 31.1, 33.7)
Safari 31.6 (32.9, 32.5, 31.5, 36.2, 37.0, 37.4, 35.5)
IE 16.3 (17.4, 18.0, 19.1, 18.2, 17.5, 17.5, 16.8, 17.0)
Firefox 9.9 (9.4, 10.0, 9.1, 9.1, 9.4, 9.4, 9.4, 8.8)
Opera 1.6 (1.3, 1.3, 1.8, 1.9, 1.6, 1.8, 1.7, 2.0)
All Others 4.1 (3.5, 3.0, 3.1, 3.1, 2.8, 3.0, 2.9)

The sample size was 26733 visits by humans.


Browser Breakup for Desktops/Laptops 
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Chrome 43.6 (43.3, 43.1, 43.4, 40.2, 40.9)
IE 26.2 (28.0, 28.6, 29.5, 30.8, 29.6)
Firefox 16.0 (15.4, 15.9, 14.5, 15.6, 15.9)
Safari 8.4 (9.4, 9.1, 9.1, 9.6, 10.3)
Opera 0.9 (0.9, 0.8, 0.9, 1.4, 1.2)
All Others 4.8 (3.1, 2.5, 2.5, 2.4, 2.1)

A big jump in the Others category; to be investigated.

The sample size above was 16304 visits by humans.


Browser Breakup for Mobiles/Tablets 
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Safari 68.5 (70.1, 71.8, 69.8, 74.2, 74.7)
Chrome 25.7 (23.2, 21.8, 22.5, 19.1, 18.9)
Opera 2.4 (1.9, 2.0, 3.1, 2.5, 2.1)
IE 0.8 (0.8, 0.6, 0.6, 0.6, 0.6)
Firefox 0.2 (0.2, 0.2, 0.3, 0.1, 0.2)
All Others 2.5 (3.8, 3.7, 3.7, 3.5, 3.5)

Compare the Internet Explorer and Firefox results here
with the desktop/laptop figures above.  A major trend
has passed them by.

The sample size above was 10319 visits by humans.


Search Engines Share
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Percentage breakup of visits coming via search engines 
for November 15th to 30th, 2013:-

Google 85.4 (86.3, 87.2, 89.1, 88.1, 89.6, 89.6)
Bing  8.6 (7.7, 7.3, 6.0, 6.5, 5.5, 5.5, 5.7, 6.5)
Yahoo 4.1 (4.1, 3.6, 3.1, 3.4, 3.2, 3.4, 3.5, 3.8)
All others 1.8 (1.9, 1.9, 1.8, 2.0, 1.7, 1.5, 1.7)

What's happening ??  Bing and Yahoo are making headway
against Google.  These are the highest figures for Yahoo 
and Bing since the good old days when Yahoo and MSN were 
major search engines.

The total number of searches in this sample was 15223, 
including 10257 of 13003 searches (79%) via Google 
where the search string is encrypted, allegedly 
for privacy reasons. 

This figure of 79% measured only 27% at the start of the 
year but has not increased for the last six weeks.
There seems to have been a pause.

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