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<img alt="Worldwide mobile OS usage" src="http://www.website-monitoring.eu/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/8f3f0_5221003040_de5347d0b8_o.jpg” title=”Worldwide mobile OS usage” class=”alignnone” width=”580″ height=”224″ />
Where do you think Apple’s iPhone is the most popular? Where does Nokia’s Symbian phones dominate? How is it going for Android in different parts of the world? What about Blackberry?
We’re going to answer all of those questions and more in this article, which will closely examine mobile OS usage across the world.
To put together this report, we have used mobile web usage statistics from StatCounter. The numbers are from the month of October 2010 and will therefore give you an up-to-date picture of the situation.
Since these statistics are based on mobile web usage, the numbers won’t necessarily match the exact market share based on physical handsets, but rather the handsets that people use to access the Web.
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Note, the iOS numbers in this article include the iPhone and iPod Touch, but NOT the iPad.
There are a couple of things to note here:
You may also wonder about Palm’s webOS (now owned by HP), but it hardly made a dent in the overall web usage so we didn’t include it. Perhaps the situation will change in the future, but for now it remains very much a niche mobile OS.
WinCE is pretty much universally dead. Windows Mobile reaches a couple of percent in a few countries, but that’s about it. We’ll see what happens with Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7.
Now that we have established how mobile usage differs across the world, let us have a closer look at exactly where each mobile OS has the strongest presence.
The mobile OS market share (based on mobile web usage) is shown next to each country in the lists below.
Apple’s iOS is the leading mobile OS in 30 countries. We found 21 countries where more than half the mobile web traffic came from iPhone or iPod Touch. As we already mentioned, the mobile OS stats in this survey does not include the iPad.
Barely outside this list are Japan (61.4%) and Belgium (61.2%). For those interested, and since it’s Apple’s home country, the United States came in at 35.2%.
We found only one country where Android accounts for more than 50% of the mobile web traffic, which is also the only country where Android is the leading mobile OS.
Note that South Korea is the home country of Samsung, and their Android phones have clearly been very successful there. This means that the Samsung stats we show later are not entirely fair to Samsung, since some of it has clearly been swallowed up by the Android stats.
Blackberry is the leading mobile OS in four countries, and tied with iOS in a fifth (the United Kingdom). Only one country had more than half of its mobile web traffic coming from Blackberry (see below).
Interesting enough, considering RIM is a Canadian company, it isn’t all that strong in its native Canada, where it accounts for a mere 3.6% of the country’s mobile web traffic.
Symbian is the leading mobile OS in more than 100 countries. We found more than 75 countries where it accounts for half or more of the mobile web traffic.
This is of course very much in line with our findings last week regarding the amount of mobile web usage across the world. Nokia’s more affordable Symbian-based phones tend to be the most widely used phones in developing nations.
An interesting side note is that Nokia has almost no foothold in the US market. Symbian makes up a mere 1.36% of mobile web usage in the United States.
We found only one country where Sony Ericsson was the leader, Bolivia.
Interesting enough, Sweden is supposed to be kind of a home market for Sony Ericsson (it’s the birthplace for the Ericsson part of Sony Ericsson), but it only makes up 7.6% of the country’s mobile web usage. Instead, Sweden’s mobile web usage is dominated by iOS and Android. Admittedly, some Sony Ericsson phones will be using Android (they’ve recently started selling Android phones), but still…
It should be noted that this list would probably be topped by South Korea if we judged solely by the Samsung brand. However, as we pointed out earlier, Samsung has largely been using Android lately.
And since it’s so huge, we’ll mention that India comes in at number 11 with 9.5%.
Here is a selection of things we thought were interesting about the mobile OS country statistics:
On a side note, we were happy to see Sweden make two of these lists. As you may know, we here at Pingdom are Swedes.
It’s worth mentioning once again that this is market share based on web traffic, not number of units. That said, it still gives us some very interesting mobile market data that would be close to impossible to come over any other way.
When examining these numbers and especially the chart, you could be forgiven for thinking that Apple and Nokia have split the mobile world between them. That would of course be a bit simplistic, but it can’t be denied that Symbian phones completely dominate large parts of the world, while the iPhone and iPod Touch together seem to have carved out a very strong place alongside the giant that is Nokia.
Data source: StatCounter Global Stats.
A note on the country top lists: We didn’t include the very smallest countries (there are countries with populations counted in the thousands instead of millions) when we made the country top lists per mobile OS. We did this partly because they realistically represent such a tiny share of the market, and partly because it’s easy to get anomalous results since StatCounter’s sample base will be very small for those countries. The worldwide and regional numbers, however, include all countries.
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Apple iPhone history, models and interesting numbers.
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The months of November and December are probably the most important
times of the year for online retailers. The online sales peaks during
the holiday season, and so does the website traffic. Quite often we hear
reports of online stores going offline or slowing down as they are
unable to handle the increase in traffic. In the short term, this leads
to lost sales. In the longer run, this can lead to serious
repercussions.
In order to ensure a fast and reliable online
shopping experience to your customers, here are some quick tips to
ensure your shopping cart does not ‘grind to a halt’ under peak traffic
conditions and keep those online orders flowing:
Got any other tips? Do share your thoughts and impressions in our comments section.
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Testing Reveals Majority of Websites Perform Well on Thanksgiving and Black Friday
SAN FRANCISCO – November 27, 2010 – WatchMouse, a global industry leader in website and application performance monitoring, tested 100 leading retail websites for availability and performance during the month leading up to and including Thanksgiving Day, November 25 and Black Friday, November 26. The websites tested included Amazon.com, Apple.com, BestBuy.com, Borders.com, Nordstorm.com, Overstock.com, Shopping.com, Walmart.com, and Zappos.com.
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On my list of things to be thankful for this holiday season is Amazon’s AWS cloud computing platform. While more and more companies adopt private clouds, especially larger enterprises, AWS has helped countless small businesses migrate to the Cloud, save, be more efficient and, ultimately, grow! I saw an article in Slate that sang the [...]
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WatchMouse Acquires Cloud Status iPhone App to Monitor Popular Cloud Service Providers
AMSTERDAM, THE NETHERLANDS – November 23, 2010 – WatchMouse, a global industry leader in self-service website and application performance monitoring, today announced the acquisition of the utility app, Cloud Status for iPhone created by Alasdair Allan, noted author, software programmer and expert iOS developer. WatchMouse also announced that it has made the app free to download in the Apple App Store, in conjunction with an updated version 4.4 release of the application including support for iOS4.
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<img alt="Visualization" src="http://www.website-monitoring.eu/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/350ad_5207145996_054833674e_o.png” title=”Visualization” class=”right” width=”150″ height=”163″ />Text and numbers are all good and well, but sometimes it’s nice to just be presented with a nice visual.
This post is full of videos of just that, interesting visualizations of data. Being the geeks we are, they’re of course all related to the Web and the Internet.
Enjoy!
Someone put this great video together using the website access log visualizer <a href="http://code.google.com/p/logstalgia/”>Logstalgia. You can see visitors to the left and the server to the right.
Once again, a high-traffic website access log visualization, this time using another tool, <a href="http://code.google.com/p/gource/”>Gource (which we’ll show more from later).
Interesting website access log visualization using glTail. Each circle is an HTTP request, and the size of the circle shows the size of the request.
A pretty cool visualization, mapping the location of the site’s visitors as the hours change.
Here’s another interesting visualization, creating an “organism” based on the access pattern to a website. Doubly geeky, then…
A brief look at <a href="http://www.website-monitoring.com/blog/2010/05/04/twitter-facts-and-figures-history-statistics/”>twitter’s firehose anno 2009.
One more <a href="http://www.website-monitoring.com/blog/2010/05/04/twitter-facts-and-figures-history-statistics/”>twitter visualization, this time showing tag clouds bubbling up in realtime.
Location streams from Foursquare, Gowalla, <a href="http://www.website-monitoring.com/blog/2010/05/04/twitter-facts-and-figures-history-statistics/”>twitter, etc, during SXSW in Austin, Texas this year. Created using Processing and OpenStreetMap.
While we’re on the subject of social networks, why not have look at the activity on <a href="http://www.website-monitoring.com/blog/2010/03/17/facebook-facts-and-figures-history-statistics/”>facebook? This is a pretty interesting visualization, showing different kinds of <a href="http://www.website-monitoring.com/blog/2010/03/17/facebook-facts-and-figures-history-statistics/”>facebook activities mapped onto a model of the planet.
Apache is the most widely-used web server on the Internet. This is a visualization of its development history using a tool called Code Swarm.
Another fundamental part of the Web today is Linux, highly popular in web servers. Here’s the code swarm showing it’s development from the start (1991) until 2008. Note the vast difference in activity over time. At the start, there’s just Linus Torvalds, but just look at the activity during the later part of the video.
Because it’s just plain pretty, we couldn’t help but include one more visualization of the Linux kernel development, this time using Gource.
We’ve already mentioned Gource (which is, as we’re sure you’ve figured out, a software version control visualization tool). Here’s another cool video showing projects like Drupal, Ruby on Rails, PostgreSQL, etc.
Not entirely sure what’s being shown here other than that it’s DNS-related. Again, using glTail.
Another visualization tool strutting its stuff, this time SkyRails, showing activity in a network with 300 nodes.
As a relaxing ending to this little collection, we thought it would be nice with a visualization of what’s making most of this possible: the Internet. This is a slideshow, but it’s worth looking through.
We hope you enjoyed these videos. And for those of you in the United States, happy Thanksgiving!
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In preparation for the holiday season, we’ve been thinking about those among us who are in need – our friends, family, and even total strangers. ObservePoint and all who work here are committed to giving back to our community, and in helping those who are less fortunate.
John Pestana (formerly of Omniture) and Rob Seolas founded ObservePoint with a strong desire to create a culture of charity, and each team member that has been brought on since that time shares this commitment. Each of us has our own charitable organizations that we regularly donate our time and talents to in our off-work time. Find out more.
This holiday season, we’d like to expand our reach. Knowing that the many in the web analytics community are involved in various altruistic causes, we’d like to offer a complementary SiteAudit account to be used for the benefit of any charitable, non-profit organization.
Site Audit is designed to help organizations better optimize their websites, and in the case of non-profit charities, this means making sites easier for donors to donate, load faster, rank higher in search engines, and providing more accurate analytics data which is vital to decision making.
Starting now and until the end of the year, ObservePoint is pleased to offer a complementary <a href="http://www.observepoint.com/website-monitoring-and-website-audit-pricing.php”>SiteAudit Pro account for the use of any web analyst performing work for a non-profit charity. Because many of these charities are so limited on resources, we want to help those in the web analytics community do more good by providing the free use of SiteAudit for 2011.
A SiteAudit Pro account includes
• 100,000 Pages of auditing every month
• Unlimited domains (for regional or local websites of one charitable non-profit)
• 3 Users (for dividing work with a team)
• Use of the SiteAudit Plugin to unlock more advanced features
If you or someone you know works for, represents, or knows of of a charitable non-profit that could benefit from SiteAudit in 2011, please email us directly, phone us, send a note via courier pigeon, or just use the form on this page.
We’d also like to call out to all in the analytics community to consider volunteering some of your time and/or services this upcoming year for the benefit of any charitable non-profits that is important to you. If you are interested in donating your time or services, you can either leave your contact info in a comment below, or you may contact us directly. And don’t forget to check out the Analysis Exchange.
Learn more about ObservePoint Charitable Giving and upcoming events.
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<img alt="Mobile web" src="http://www.website-monitoring.eu/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/9a5e6_5201264461_a09035d8ba_o.jpg” title=”Mobile web” class=”right” width=”150″ height=”111″ />We increasingly access the Web from our mobile phones, especially now that the rise of smartphones is making it easier than ever to get a decent web experience on the small screen.
However, the highest share of mobile web usage isn’t in the most developed nations, but rather in the developing nations of the world.
It’s important to note that these numbers are averages. Individual countries can and do differ greatly, as you’ll see further down.
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It is a bit ironic that mobile web usage is, relatively speaking, lower in Europe and North America than in much of Asia and Africa. At least when you consider all the attention that Android, iPhone, and smartphones in general are getting over here.
Worldwide, mobile makes up 3.81% of web usage according to StatCounter.
And just to clarify, with the mobile Web we mean the Web accessed from mobile devices (usually phones). The numbers in this article are for the month of October, 2010, and all come from StatCounter, based on visitor statistics from more than three million websites.
Both Asia and Africa are big places, so let’s look closer at which specific countries are lifting the averages in those regions.
The reason these countries have such high mobile web usage compared to desktop web usage (for lack of a better name) is very much a result of economics. A large portion of the population won’t have access to the means needed for a computer and Internet access.
A relatively cheap mobile phone (most often from Nokia, as we have seen) will then be a much more realistic option, and it therefore becomes the way to reach the Web for many. It’s either that or no web access at all, so it’s a matter of necessity.
So that’s why mobile makes up such an unusually large portion of the web traffic in some countries. It’s not a matter of being on the cutting edge. Even in Japan, arguably the most advanced country on the planet when it comes to mobile phones, mobile only makes up 2.17% of web traffic.
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