Internet Trends - 1/2 year analysis on 94,000 unique visits - 2009

The justweb™ traffic statistical analysis for the first half of 2009 is now available.

In the months January through to June (2009), justweb™ attracted 94,005 unique visitors, compared to the same period in 2008 (January through June) in which there were 80,209 unique visitors - an increase of just over 17%.

As a result of this level of traffic, certain internet trends become apparent - such as the popularity of different types of operating systems, browsers, screen resolutions (screen size), and the countries of origin of visitors.

Summary for the first half of 2009 - justweb.com.au

Total unique visits: 94,005

Unique keywords used: 84,369 visits via 31,169 keywords.

Direct and referral traffic: 9,636

Statistics covered in this interim (half year) report are:

• Browser types
• Operating systems
• Browser and operating system combinations
• Screen resolutions
• Java support
• Connection speeds
• Top 20 networks (please note: over 8,500 networks in total)
• Top ten search engines
• Visits by rank and country
• Top 50 most popular justweb™ pages

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Browser types

1. Internet Explorer 60,318 64.16%
2. Firefox 25,702 27.34%
3. Safari 4,559 4.85%
4. Chrome 1,934 2.06%
5. Opera 831 0.88%
6. Mozilla 421 0.45%
7. SeaMonkey 48 0.05%
8. Mozilla Compatible Agent 40 0.04%
9. Camino 37 0.04%
10. Konqueror 30 0.03%

Internet Explorer Browser Versions
1. 7.0 40,382 66.95%
2. 6.0 16,236 26.92%
3. 8.0 3,684 6.11%

Comments
Internet Explorer is still the most popular browser by far. However, because this will be phased out in the not too distant future (it has already been removed from European Windows 7 operating systems), no doubt IE's market share will drop considerably. Firefox continues to gain ground, and this will increase as people look for a replacement browser. Safari use has increased as well, which is of course due to the increased usage of Macs.

Also of interest is that more than a quarter of visitors still use Internet Explorer 6 version browser. Thankfully, that means about 75% of people have upgraded, and this figure will no doubt increase, pushed along by reports that sites such as YouTube and DIGG will discontinue support for version 6.

Operating systems

1. Windows 86,097 91.59%
2. Macintosh 6,368 6.77%
3. Linux 899 0.96%
4. iPhone 261 0.28%
5. (not set) 141 0.15%
6. Danger Hiptop 88 0.09%
7. iPod 77 0.08%
8. SymbianOS 40 0.04%
9. FreeBSD 13 0.01%
10. Playstation3 9 0.01%

Comments
Windows is still the clear winner, and will be for the foreseeable future. Macintosh has increased its share, and a notable addition to the list is iPhone - even if it is only 0.28% of the total traffic. It is interesting to note that only around 400 visits originated from mobile device platforms such as iPhone, Danger Hiptop, iPod, Symbian, etc. That represents approximately 0.42% of the total traffic.

Browser/operating system combinations

1. Internet Explorer / Windows 60,308 64.15%
2. Firefox / Windows 22,749 24.20%
3. Safari / Macintosh 3,951 4.20%
4. Firefox / Macintosh 2,362 2.51%
5. Chrome / Windows 1,934 2.06%
6. Opera / Windows 765 0.81%
7. Firefox / Linux 565 0.60%
8. Mozilla / Linux 282 0.30%
9. Safari / iPhone 260 0.28%
10. Safari / Windows 232 0.25%

Comments
Notable here is the number of people who choose to use the standard Mac browser (Safari) over what I think to be a far better and more functional piece of software - Firefox.

Screen resolutions

1. 1024x768 27,012 28.73%
2. 1280x800 19,103 20.32%
3. 1280x1024 16,375 17.42%
4. 1440x900 8,018 8.53%
5. 1680x1050 7,777 8.27%
6. 1920x1200 2,943 3.13%
7. 1152x864 2,446 2.60%
8. 800x600 2,109 2.24%
9. 1280x768 1,581 1.68%
10. 1280x960 1,101 1.17%
11. 1366x768 690 0.73%
12. 1280x720 620 0.66%
13. 1400x1050 541 0.58%
14. 1600x1200 516 0.55%
15. 1024x600 506 0.54%
16. 1920x1080 403 0.43%
17. 320x396 338 0.36%
18. 1360x768 270 0.29%
19. 1600x900 219 0.23%
20. 1152x720 104 0.11%

Comments
Looking at the above screen resolutions, it is clear many people use Laptops or Notebook computers. Also, even now, there are still people using the old 800x600 screen resolution - at only 2.24%, it doesn't sound like much to worry about, but that equates to a little over 2000 visitors over 6 months - that's quite a lot of people.

Java support

1. Yes 87,974 93.58%
2. No 6,031 6.42%

Comments
Again, 6.42% of people don't appear to have Java enabled, but this represents just over 6,000 visitors. If your site relies on Java to run, or you don't have some sort of redundancy (non-Java compatibility) and you get a lot of traffic, you are missing out on a lot of potential customers.

Connection speeds

1. Unknown 56,941
2. DSL 18,311
3. Cable 9,600
4. T1 5,959
5. Dialup 2,915
6. OC3 144
7. ISDN 135

Comments
Who says dialup is dead? Almost 3,000 visitors say "no it isn't"! And even more if some in the "Unknown" category include dialup connections. When over 60% of your visitors' connections are "unknown", it is a little hard to draw conclusions as to which is more popular - (A)DSL or Cable. But what is clear, if you have a high traffic website, thousands of people accessing your website will still be using a dialup connection.

Top 20 networks (please note: over 8,500 networks in total)

1. telstra internet 19,057
2. optus internet - retail 6,921
3. iinet limited 4,102
4. tpg internet pty ltd. 3,891
5. internet service provider 2,263
6. 3g mobile service provider 1,459
7. primus telecommunications 1,160
8. westnet internet services 1,148
9. road runner holdco llc 1,066
10. imported inetnum object for tpa-1 1,044
11. adam internet pty ltd 961
12. aapt limited 958
13. comcast cable communications inc. 952
14. internet service provider australia. 710
15. verizon internet services inc. 627
16. layer 2 broadband customer network 620
17. pacific internet (australia) pty ltd 577
18. amnet it services pty ltd 551
19. nib (national internet backbone) 547
20. abts delhi 520
21. singtel optus pty ltd 500

Comments
Clearly Telstra (Big Pond) have the lion's share of the market in Australia, with Optus coming a very distant second.

Top ten search engines

1. google 74,107
2. live 4,572
3. yahoo 2,676
4. msn 1,449
5. bing 718
6. search 309
7. aol 252
8. ask 243
9. altavista 28
10. seznam 5.

Comments
It goes without saying that Google is the most popular search engine, providing just under 79% of the total traffic to justweb™. In June 2009, Microsoft decided to relaunch itself as "Bing".

Visits by rank and country

The following are the top 50 countries who visited justweb™.

1. Australia 63,817
2. United States 10,474
3. India 2,894
4. United Kingdom 2,346
5. Canada 2,043
6. Philippines 1,128
7. New Zealand 1,003
8. Singapore 791
9. Germany 779
10. France 628
11. Ireland 369
12. China 359
13. Hong Kong 354
14. Pakistan 353
15. Malaysia 350
16. Italy 277
17. South Africa 270
18. Netherlands 261
19. Indonesia 244
20. Nigeria 221
21. Spain 215
22. Japan 214
23. Romania 192
24. Thailand 161
25. Brazil 155
26. Belgium 152
27. Vietnam 136
28. Poland 136
29. Russia 136
30. United Arab Emirates 135
31. Sweden 126
32. Switzerland 123
33. Sri Lanka 118
34. Mexico 114
35. Israel 111
36. Turkey 105
37. Norway 92
38. Austria 90
39. Ghana 87
40. Ukraine 84
41. South Korea 83
42. Saudi Arabia 82
43. Egypt 80
44. Argentina 80
45. Serbia 73
46. Chile 73
47. Denmark 70
48. Portugal 69
49. Finland 67
50. Peru 66

Top 50 most popular justweb™ pages

1. / (Home page)
2. /review/rin-on-the-rox.html
3. /business-directories/australian-business-directory.html
4. /online-sms/send-sms.html
5. /marketing/radio-advertising.html
6. /intellectual-property/rin-on-the-rox.html
7. /sydneywebdesign/clients.html
8. /webdevelopment/webdesign.html
9. /about/contact.html
10. /review/lcd-flat-panel-tv.html
11. /searchengineoptimisation/yeswecan.html
12. /business-directories/add-website-link.html
13. /webdevelopment/internet-statistics.html
14. /web-callback/click-to-call.html
15. /newsletter/website-design.html
16. /links/reciprocal-links.html
17. /business-law/articles.html
18. /copywriting/copywriter.html
19. /searchengineoptimisation/website-audit.html
20. /business-law/trademark-registration-australia.html
21. /review/julie-kember.html
22. /automotive/mercedes-dealer.html
23. /searchengineoptimisation/free-google-advertising.html
24. /review/web-hosting-australia.html
25. /sydneywebdesign/about.html
26. /webdevelopment/internet-usage.html
27. /review/internet-explorer-8.html
28. /webdevelopment/internet-trends.html
29. /searchengineoptimisation/seo.html
30. /review/box-software-download.html
31. /automotive/used-mercedes-benz.html
32. /google-maps/australia.html
33. /review/how-to-make-money-from-a-website.html
34. /searchengineoptimisation/website-seo.html
35. /photos/friesian-horse.html
36. /webdevelopment/terms.html
37. /streaming-video/video-sitemap.html
38. /review/technology-reviews.html
39. /web-callback/call-from-website.html
40. /web-callback/freecall-button.html
41. /business-law/business-name-registration.html
42. /review/modern-australian-restaurant.html
43. /review/best-publicity.html
44. /clients/testimonials.html
45. /searchengineoptimisation/google-image-search.html
46. /newsletter/computer-maintenance.html
47. /articles/search-engine-optimisation-training.html
48. /interactive/virtual-tour.html
49. /newsletter/wireless-network-security.html
50. /newsletter/web-sites-for-mobile-devices.html

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