Apple iPad dominates tablet web traffic

An analysis of traffic from tablet computers to more than 1,200 websites found that 98.1 per cent of the traffic came from the Apple iPad.

The second most popular tablet for web browsing was the Samsung Galaxy Tab - in all its models - which accounts for 1.53 per cent of traffic. The Motorola Xoom has 0.21 per cent, ahead of the Amazon Kindle Fire on 0.11 per cent.

The study also found that the iPad has a 54.5 per cent share of all web traffic from mobile devices, ahead of the iPhone, which accounts for 19.05 per cent.

The figures, compiled by Onswipe, found that Apple's iOS has a 75.12 per cent share of all mobile web traffic, with Android second on 22.3 per cent.

Forty per cent of iOS users had already upgraded to iOS 6, Apple's new version of its mobile operating system, Onswipe found. However, iPhone users were more likely to have upgraded (

At Apple's iPhone event earlier this month Tim Cook, the company's chief executive, said the iPad had a 68 per cent market share but noted that the device represented a far greater proportion of web traffic.

Cook said: "I don't know what these other tablets are doing. They must be in warehouses or on store shelves or maybe in someone's bottom drawer."