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 2946 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 47.35 499 758 980 1018 1057 1104 1130 1178 1240 1255 1268 1304 1325 1360 1397
Windows 33.55 494 601 728 742 760 779 783 823 876 899 906 927 938 952 964
unknown 8.24 139 194 171 185 185 175 175 174 195 194 211 219 230 251 266
Other non-Unix 5.37 12 13 93 90 94 110 116 132 129 141 143 151 157 164 176
Solaris 3.39 96 99 96 95 95 95 100 97 96 85 85 85 86 88 88
BSD 1.58 23 33 32 36 39 40 39 41 43 42 43 42 45 44 44
Other Unix 0.51 25 22 16 14 14 16 13 14 15 14 15 14 13 12 11