Latest Stats as at 4/1/2010. ============================ These figures cover the 15-day period 16/12/2009 to 31/12/2009. Preamble ======== (A) Christmas ------------- The results for the last two weeks are not typical. Offices are closed and people are surfing the net from their home computer. This happened last year, exactly the same. The figures below should be interpreted as insight into the difference between home computers and work computers, rather than giving the usual trends as time passes. (B) Bondi Bias -------------- I have always thought my figures were reasonably unbiased, with a mix of several sites added together, and no techo component where the site is just visited by Linux devotees etc etc. Generally the figures have closely aligned with published industry figures, with an added Australian perspective. This week I realised that most of the visitors to the Bondi Beach Home Page are probably travellers and tourists or backpackers and they all have laptops, netbooks and mobiles rather than full size desktop computers. This does make a difference, especially to the percentage of Mac computers and iPhones that is measured. Of the total visits, about 62% are about Bondi and 38% are about other sites. Here are some operating system figures:- XP: Bondi 50.8%, Other sites 49.7% Vista: Bondi 25.3, Other sites 23.3 Windows 7: Bondi 5.4, Other sites 5.2 Other Windows: Bondi 1.5, Other sites 7.7 Mac: Bondi 11.6, Other sites 7.4 Linux: Bondi 1.1, Other sites 2.4 iPhone: Bondi 2.8, Other sites 1.6 Other mobiles: Bondi 1.5, Other sites 2.5 These figures go a long way to explaining why the figures for Mac are a bit on the high side. I have checked the Other-Windows figures above, the difference is huge but the arithmetic is correct. (C) The Fat Boy Incident ------------------------ Last March there was a huge blast of hits from a chat forum in America. This month it was from The Netherlands, with 7146 hits commencing around 8:40pm on Monday 21st December. These hits have been taken out of the normal analysis (following below) and have been analysed separately, see more figures below. (D) Country Analysis -------------------- Further bugs have been removed from the countries analyser. Roughly speaking, about 15% of countries allocated were incorrect, although in the 7146 hits above, only three had to be corrected. (E) Quarterly Analysis ---------------------- My analysis has now been going for 18 months. Some quarterly analysis is presented below. ============================================================== Operating System Market Share ============================== For period 16th to 31st December 2009, these percentage figures are based on visits, and some earlier figures are in brackets:- XP 50.4 (was 54.7, 54.8, 56.1, 56.3, 57.1, 57.6, 58.3, 57.6) Vista 24.6 (was 23.4, 24.8, 25.1, 25.8, 25.5, 25.4, 25.6, 25.8) Windows-7 5.3 (was 4.2, 3.4, 2.8, 1.9, 1.5, 1.2, 1.1, 1.0, 0.8) Other Windows 3.9 (was 3.9, 3.2, 3.0, 3.2, 3.4, 3.4, 3.8, 3.8) Mac 10.1 (was 9.6, 9.5, 9.2, 9.2, 8.7, 8.7, 8.0, 8.5, 9.0, 8.2) iPhone 2.3 (was 1.4, 1.4, 1,3, 1.1, 0.9) Other Mobiles 1.9 (was 1.5, 1.5, 1.3, 1.2, 1.6, 2.5) Linux 1.6 (was 1.3, 1.3, 1.2, 1.4, 1.2, 1.2, 1.2, 1.2, 1.4, 1.5) It's Christmas and people are using their computers at home. The total sample size was 15489 visits by humans. =========================================================== Browser Breakup =============== Percentages of visits for the period 16th to 31st December 2009:- IE 55.7 (was 60.0, 59.9, 60.0, 60.6, 60.6, 60.6, 62.0, 62.0, 62.3) FF 25.1 (was 24.1, 24.5, 24.8, 24.6, 24.7, 25.7, 24.2, 24.8, 24.1) Safari 10.5 (was 8.6, 8.4, 8.1, 8.0, 7.7, 7.7, 7.2, 7.0, 7.5, 6.6) Chrome 5.1 (was 3.9, 3.9, 4.0, 3.2, 3.5, 2.8, 3.3, 2.6, 2.7, 2.8) Opera 1.4 (was 1.5, 1.6, 1.5, 1.9, 1.9, 1.7, 1.9, 1.9, 1.8, 2.3) All Others 2.2 (was 1.8, 1.7, 1.5, 1.7, 1.6, 1.5, 1.4, 1.6, 1.7) The total sample size was 15346 visits by humans. No details shown, but the percentage of IE8 has just passed IE7. Search Engines Share ==================== Percentage breakup of visits coming via search engines for December 16th to 31st, 2009:- Google 89.5 (was 88.0, 88.4, 87.7, 87.6, 87.5, 88.5, 89.4, 88.0, 87.2) Yahoo 5.1 (was 4.6, 5.5, 5.8, 6.1, 6.1, 5.8, 5.3, 6.3, 7.0, 7.5, 7.4) Microsoft 2.8 (was 4.0, 3.3, 3.9, 3.4, 3.5, 2.8, 2.3, 2.3, 2.5, 3.3) All others 2.6 (was 3.3, 2.8, 2.6, 2.9, 2.8, 2.9, 3.0, 3.4, 3.3, 3.8) What's going on here? It's Christmas and offices are closed for the break. Yahoo is suddenly up and Bing is down. Are home computers configured to use Yahoo and work computers set to use Bing? Whatever this means, next month will probably be back to normal. The sample size here was 12157. The Fat Boy Incident ==================== Commencing around 8:40pm on 21st December, there were 1300 hits in the first 20 minutes, followed by 2100 in the next hour, then 1400, then 1000 etc. Three pictures were linked into a Dutch chat forum where they were politely discussing obesity and smoking. Two fat smokers plus one pregnant smoker soon lowered the tone. Over 183MB of data was served for just these 3 pictures. People love to see pictures of people worse off than themselves. Just out of academic interest, the three pictures are: http://www.nsma.org.au/pics2000/fatboy4.jpg http://www.nsma.org.au/pics2007/fatwoman.jpg http://www.nsma.org.au/pics2006/pregnant.jpg The 7146 hits referred by a chat forum in The Netherlands can be analysed by their agent string, to study the browsers and operating systems used by the forum readers. Compared with the breakup of normal visitors, these people live in a parallel universe. Operating System ---------------- XP 47.3 Vista 23.8 Windows-7 17.5 Other Windows 3.5 Mac 4.8 Linux 1.9 iPhone 0.5 Other mobiles 0.7 A huge uptake of Windows 7, but figures lower than expected for Mac and much lower for iPhones and Mobiles. Browsers -------- IE 45.5 FF 39.6 Safari 4.0 Chrome 8.3 Opera 2.1 Others 0.5 Yikes, go Firefox and go Chrome. The country of origin was 90% The Netherlands, 2% Belgium and most of the remainder from nearby countries. And four hits from the Dutch Antilles off the coast of Venezuela. Analysis by Quarters ==================== The logfile analysis has now been going for 18 months. Hence I have decided to summarise all the figures into quarters and look for long term trends. The results show consistent trends, and are presented as a web page so that the figures are easier to read. http://www.bondivillage.com/techo/logstats/quarters.htm ============================ =============================