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Wednesday, October 21, 2009

Windows 7 Breaks 3% in Daily Tracking.

Windows 7 Breaks 2% Worldwide Share Prior to General Retail Availability

Windows 7's general availability release date is October 22nd. Prior to this, Windows 7's usage share has steadily increased to over 2% globally. This report tracks the daily usage share of Windows 7.

Windows 7 Already Gaining Widespread 'Adoption' in Eastern Europe

Upon analysis of global Windows 7 usage share, we noticed a distinct pattern. Russia and many Eastern European countries already have significant share of Windows 7 usage. We are sure these are all properly licensed users.

Windows 7 Hourly Tracking

Windows 7's hourly tracking. Please note that these numbers are not weighted by country (unlike all other reports) and should be used to determine trending, not absolute share.

Thursday, October 01, 2009

18% of Mac Users Pounce on Snow Leopard in First Month of Release

On August 28th, Apple released Snow Leopard, which is version 10.6 of the Mac operating system. Since then, it has had rapid adoption. On the day of Sept. 29th, the global share of Snow Leopard was .91%, and the overall Mac share was 4.93%. This means 18.45% of Mac users have upgraded to Snow Leopard in just one month after its release.

Firefox 3.5 Gains 4% Global Share in One Month

In another rapid adoption article, Firefox 3.5 gained 4% global share in September, bringing its share to 12.7%.

Tuesday, September 01, 2009

Windows 7 Breaks 1% Share

Windows 7 has broken 1% share worldwide.

Bing Continues to Gain Share

Bing has risen to 8.4% share in the U.S. in August (compared to 7.8% in July).

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This data provides valuable insight into significant trends for internet usage. These statistics include monthly information on key statistics such as browser trends (e.g. Internet Explorer vs. Firefox market share), search engine referral data (e.g. Yahoo vs. MSN vs. Google traffic market share) and operating system share (Windows vs. Mac vs. Linux market share or even the iPhone market share vs. Windows Mobile).

We use a unique methodology for collecting this data. We collect data from the browsers of site visitors to our exclusive on-demand network of live stats customers. The data is compiled from approximately 160 million visitors per month. The information published is an aggregate of the data from this network of hosted website statistics. The site unique visitor and referral information is summarized on a monthly, weekly, daily and hourly basis.

In addition, we classify 430+ referral sources identified as search engines. Aggregate traffic referrals from these engines are summarized and reported on. The statistics for search engines include both organic and sponsored referrals. The websites in our population represent almost all countries on earth.

The data is made available free of charge on a monthly basis that includes monthly browser market share trends, top search engine referrals, screen resolutions, top ISPs and operating systems trends. An upgraded version is available that provides reports by geolocation, preview weekly data and other features.

Additional estimates about the website population:

76% participate in pay per click programs to drive traffic to their sites.

43% are commerce sites

18% are corporate sites

10% are content sites

29% classify themselves as other (includes gov, org, search engine marketers etc..)

For information on mobile share methodology, click here.

Recent Changes to Site

Baidu search engine numbers have been adjusted downward due to detection of automated traffic. Historical values have not been changed.

*** We have implemented country-level weighting. Click here for details.

Internet Explorer 8 in compatibility mode is now reported as 'Microsoft Internet Explorer 8.0 - Compatibility Mode' instead of 'Internet Explorer 7.0'.

Microsoft's mobile operating systems have been placed in their own category called 'Windows Mobile'. This moves 0.05% of share from Windows to Windows Mobile

As of January, we have changed the way we track Mac share. In the past, we broke down Mac share by CPU (Intel vs. PPC). From now on, we will be breaking down Mac share by Mac OS version (like Mac OS X 10.5). Some reports on Mac share will be affected.

We have recently upgraded our method of presenting the data. We now group search engines and operating systems in reports in addition to displaying the market share of the versions. For example, Google has many international versions of its search engine. In the past, we displayed data for Google's main site and all the international versions (like www.google.co.uk for the United Kingdom version), but not a summary report of all the versions combined. This is now displayed in our summary report as "Google - Global".

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