Operating System Share by Groups for Sites in January 2008

This analysis relates to those sites found in the survey where the common name in the certificate matched the hostname, and the certificate's digital signature was not detected as being self-signed.

Responses were obtained from 38426 sites, with the following shares for each operating system group.

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The following pie chart shows the moving average shares over time.

The next graph shows the actual development of shares over time.

Market Shares by Operating System Group to January 2008

OS Group Moving
Avg. %
2005 2006 2007 2008
Jan Jan Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Jan
Linux 68.60 9659 15968 20629 20934 21224 21711 22587 23088 24016 24350 24687 25017 25539 25984 26437
Windows 17.30 3792 4631 5375 5276 5322 5495 5600 5819 6203 6173 6263 6344 6418 6448 6536
unknown 6.06 911 1290 1579 1884 1988 1877 1917 1823 2025 2057 2154 2202 2253 2425 2449
Solaris 3.05 1048 1326 1186 1193 1209 1208 1094 1109 1121 1109 1125 1116 1104 972 979
Other non-Unix 2.76 97 201 595 576 589 639 791 921 898 943 985 1013 1076 1170 1209
BSD 1.88 510 595 647 646 631 639 634 642 669 670 677 676 680 674 684
Other Unix 0.36 233 179 113 111 112 109 110 123 123 125 126 128 123 130 132