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 323341 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 47.41 105480 120990 129837 129791 131082 131621 134312 136678 145212 145184 147674 148885 148798 149601 150061
Linux 28.61 54420 68332 76735 77383 78318 78985 81537 82971 86084 86792 87939 88810 89990 91279 92520
unknown 11.40 18559 22500 23432 25981 25998 26091 26923 28394 29928 33230 34749 36935 38746 39345 40841
Other non-Unix 4.66 2510 4844 10523 10166 10440 11335 11650 12391 14025 14318 14528 14426 15345 15935 16293
BSD 3.99 9470 10594 11489 11477 11694 11732 11908 11926 12196 12142 12277 12257 12271 12446 12400
Solaris 3.23 10604 11079 10283 9848 9779 9753 9711 9809 10028 10003 9927 9946 9745 9630 9636
Other Unix 0.71 4586 3823 3534 3505 3457 3430 3405 3383 3445 1683 1665 1638 1600 1600 1590