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 5633 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 57.95 1439 1837 2352 2357 2400 2463 2516 2592 2908 2956 2992 3050 3067 3123 3179
Linux 21.36 431 653 805 831 850 871 912 966 1035 1048 1070 1105 1153 1187 1218
unknown 11.33 228 349 374 414 414 415 407 406 520 546 561 592 613 671 706
Solaris 3.48 190 180 151 145 146 140 150 156 156 159 158 162 184 199 202
BSD 3.16 98 117 129 135 137 139 139 142 157 161 160 162 166 169 174
Other non-Unix 2.40 49 49 78 73 86 88 85 110 121 123 129 127 141 131 140
Other Unix 0.32 33 22 18 18 18 18 17 16 16 16 16 16 16 15 14