This post is about stats from hits to this website. I always find this interesting because you can get a feel of what is moving and shaking in the tech industry. Of course the stats on this site are heavily skewed towards technology and although this site is small compared to something like reddit or del.icio.us we still get millions of hits a year so it is not a sample of 10 hits 🙂

Smart phones

As you can see from that chart, in January iPhone was at 70% and it ended up in December at 34%, Android went from 13% to 40%, Android activations are almost double now compared to Apple’s in the last quarter. My predictions is that Android will have at least 55% share by the end of next year. It is not all doom and gloom for Apple however, the iPad managed to rise to almost 19% since April. Below are the numbers that were used to generate the chart.

Month iPhone iPad iPod BlackBerry Android
January 70.34 0 8.31 4.04 13.26
February 75.5 0 6.71 2.01 13.76
March 78.21 0 6.32 3.27 11.11
April 61.79 8.67 5.42 4.34 16.53
May 53.74 13.54 7.27 6.87 16.16
June 48.28 11.52 4.17 13.73 19.61
July 55.92 14.88 4.85 5.52 17.7
August 57.95 15.5 4.15 2.74 18.64
September 54.3 17.66 3.12 1.93 21.22
October 49.18 19.04 4.05 3.27 22.05
November 44.04 20.78 2.49 1.57 30.29
December 34.44 18.89 4.31 1.81 40

Browsers

The year 2010 was a very good year for Chrome, Chrome has more than doubled its share, FireFox lost about 8% and IE lost about 5%. Now that Chrome has a lot of the Extensions that FireFox has I think even more people will switch to Chrome, I have been using Chrome since the first beta version and have never gone back to fireFox or IE. My predictions is that Chrome will capture a third of the market by the end of next year.

Below are the numbers that were used to generate the chart.

Month FireFox IE Chrome Safari
January 43.47 40.64 10.81 2.25
February 37.59 45.16 12.6 1.87
March 38.29 42.89 13.73 2.36
April 37.57 42.03 15.57 3.07
May 37.06 41.67 15.88 2.77
June 36.18 43.14 16 1.97
July 35.6 39.89 19.09 2.61
August 34.68 40.82 18.67 3
September 35.44 40.1 19.69 2.32
October 37.46 34.09 22.48 3.19
November 35.6 35.59 23.08 3.11
December 35.77 35.22 23.03 3.12

Internet Explorer

Internet Explorer 6 is slowly going to below 5% share, IE8 is the most used browser with almost 70% share. I tried IE 9 a couple of times, I like the speed and the other improvements it has but it won’t be enough to make me switch from Chrome

Below are the numbers that were used to generate the chart.

Month IE8 IE7 IE9 IE6
January 52.88 31.87 0 15.18
February 53.22 31.25 0 15.52
March 56.31 29.84 0 13.8
April 61.6 24.93 0 13.41
May 62.01 24.54 0 13.5
June 62.3 24.86 0 12.75
July 65.56 22.8 0 11.6
August 67.24 22.01 0 10.72
September 65.73 22.72 1.52 10.03
October 66.48 21.9 3.27 8.3
November 68.8 19.87 3.68 7.62
December 69 20.28 3.07 7.63

Windows

Windows 7 has been the most used version of windows for the past two month on this site. XP is still going strong..especially in corporations. Vista’s share dropped in half.

Below are the numbers that were used to generate the chart.

Month XP 7 Vista
January 55.48 24.39 16.6
February 58.69 22.85 14.99
March 55.91 26.15 14.38
April 53.6 29.85 13.43
May 53.12 31.17 12.65
June 52.22 33.38 11.23
July 48.73 37.25 10.94
August 47.77 39.52 9.68
September 47.17 40.43 9.38
October 45.45 42.45 9.49
November 43.25 45.88 8.21
December 43.74 45.7 8.08

That is it for this post…what are your predictions for the next year…what will Chrome, Android and iPad end up at. What about windows phone 7..will that platform have a chance? Let me know in the comments…