A large sample of millions of website visitors detailed by Google Analytics indicates that the entire Android ecosystem combined, while slightly ahead of the iPhone 4, continues to be outpaced by Apple’s iOS, largely due to the rapid growth of iPad, reports “AppleInsider” (http://www.appleinsider.com).
This mirrors additional data that underlines Apple’s lead in both mobile browsing and app sales, refuting recent reports that claim Android is displacing iOS, the article adds. As “AppleInsider” notes, there are regular reports that Google’s Android platform has passed the iPhone 4 in both installed base and growth. However, Jeff Tribble of SEO firm ROI365 notes that the firm’s analytics data covering four million unique visitors across a large portfolio of web sites shows that Android’s share of web visits over the iPhone “is very slight and has not grown much over the past quarter.”
Tribble reported that his collective data “currently show 2.89% of the visits coming from Android vs 2.62% coming from iPhone. In December we showed 2.05 for Android and 2.01 for iPhone. But this is not an apples to apples comparison,” he noted.