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 1698 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
Windows 44.43 454 537 619 629 635 638 651 657 688 704 704 714 721 740 755
Linux 28.86 257 298 365 372 381 388 409 418 447 458 471 475 490 484 497
Solaris 10.59 149 151 161 151 155 149 150 160 173 168 166 172 170 173 176
unknown 7.68 92 87 99 112 108 109 109 111 126 122 128 135 127 129 124
Other non-Unix 5.02 4 24 52 55 55 62 61 74 74 82 85 88 88 87 93
BSD 2.13 22 28 28 26 31 31 29 26 30 31 32 34 35 39 38
Other Unix 1.29 30 23 28 28 28 27 27 27 24 24 20 19 17 17 15