Latest Stats as at 20/12/2012 ============================= These figures cover the 15-day period 1/12/2012 to 15/12/2012. First recorded figure for WinPhone at 0.2%, all WinPhone 7 so far. Operating System Market Share ============================== For the period 1st to 15th of December, these percentage figures are based on visits, with earlier figures in brackets:- Windows-7 35.3 (36.3, 36.2, 35.8, 35.2, 33.8, 34.4, 32.4) XP 17.2 (16.0, 16.5, 17.2, 18.8, 18.2, 19.8, 23.2, 25.0) Vista 5.3 (5.3, 5.2, 5.1, 5.2, 5.2, 5.0, 5.1, 4.7, 5.4) Pre-XP Windows 1.0 (0.7, 0.6, 0.7, 0.8, 0.7, 0.6, 1.0) Windows-8 0.8 (0.9, 0.3, 0.1) Mac 12.4 (13.0, 12.5, 12.8, 12.8, 12.4, 12.6, 11.3, 11.9) iPhone/iPad/iPod 19.8 (20.5, 21.0, 21.1, 19.9, 21.1, 19.7) Android 4.8 (4.5, 4.6, 4.6, 4.2, 5.0, 3.9, 4.1, 3.5, 3.7) WinPhone 0.2% Other Mobiles 2.3 (1.8, 2.4, 2.0, 2.5, 2.8, 3.2, 3.0, 2.9) Linux 0.9 (0.8, 0.8, 0.7, 0.7, 0.7, 0.7, 0.7, 0.8) If you break the above results into two parts, namely desktops and mobiles you get: Desktops 73% (including laptops): Windows 82%, Apple 17% and Linux 1%. Mobiles 27% (including tablets and phones): Apple 73%, Android 18%, Windows 1% and Others 8%. The total sample size above was 18927. Desktop sample size 13803 and mobiles 5124. Browser Breakup =============== Percentages of visits for the period 1st to 15th December 2012:- Safari 28.6 (29.9, 30.2, 30.4, 29.2, 30.2, 29.2, 27.7) Chrome 28.5 (27.5, 27.2, 26.4, 26.4, 24.0, 23.0, 23.7) IE 25.2 (26.2, 26.8, 27.2, 27.9, 28.0, 30.0, 31.5) Firefox 14.1 (12.8, 12.2, 12.8, 12.7, 13.7, 13.7, 13.2) Opera 2.1 (2.1, 2.1, 1.8, 2.3, 2.5, 2.3, 2.1, 2.1, 2.3) All Others 1.6 (1.5, 1.5, 1.4, 1.5, 1.6, 1.8, 1.8, 1.7) Chrome continues to take market share from Internet Explorer. The sample size was 19015 visits by humans. Search Engines Share ==================== Percentage breakup of visits coming via search engines for December 1st to 15th, 2012:- Google 89.9 (89.2, 89.4, 89.5, 90.9, 90.4, 90.5, 90.6) Yahoo 4.0 (4.2, 3.9, 4.1, 3.4, 4.2, 4.0, 3.5, 4.7, 4.6) Bing 2.7 (3.3, 3.5, 3.3, 2.8, 2.5, 2.9, 2.7, 3.2, 3.3) All others 3.4 (3.3, 3.2, 3.1, 2.9, 3.0, 2.7, 3.3, 3.3) The total number of searches in this sample was 12713, including 3010 of 11426 searches (26%) via Google where the search string was suppressed allegedly for privacy reasons. =============================== ============================