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Operating Systems Market Report, July 2025
TechnologiesContent Management
Server-side Languages
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JavaScript Libraries
CSS Frameworks
Web Servers
Web Panels
Operating Systems
Web Hosting
Data Centers
Reverse Proxies
DNS Servers
Email Servers
SSL Certificate Authorities
Content Delivery
Traffic Analysis Tools
Advertising Networks
Tag Managers
Social Widgets
Site Elements
Structured Data
Markup Languages
Character Encodings
Image File Formats
Top Level Domains
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Operating Systems Market Report
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This extensive report shows many detailed statistics of the operating system market.
Our technology market report is a detailed monthly report on the usage of operating systems on websites. The report comes via email as a PDF file and has over 5,850 pages with hierarchical bookmarks that make it easy to navigate. It covers this information:
- List of all operating systems
Which operating systems are covered? Shows a list of all 32 operating systems monitored for our surveys, together with a short description and a link to the website.
- Usage Report
How popular is each of the operating systems? Shows percentages of usage for all operating systems that we monitor. Also shows how much these figures changed compared to the last month and to the last year.
- Historical Trend Report
How did the popularity of the operating systems change over time? Shows tables and diagrams of historical trends of usage for all operating systems since January 2014. Please note, that we permanently keep adding more operating systems to our surveys, therefore not all of them cover the entire time frame.
- Growth Rate Report
Which are the fastest growing operating systems? Shows the current growth rates in the usage of all operating systems both in absolute figures and percentages in the last month and in the last year.
- Trend Analysis Report
Which market segments contributed most to usage changes of each operating system? Shows which geographical regions, identified by top level domain and content language, saw the most significant popularity gains or declines in the popularity of the various operating systems in the last 12 months.
- New Site Usage Report
How popular is each of the operating systems among new sites? Shows percentages of usage for all operating systems among sites that were first visited in the last month, because they have only recently entered the top 10 million sites.
- Top Site Usage Report
Which operating systems are primarily used by high traffic sites? Shows for each operating system the share of top sites among all the sites that use that specific operating system.
- Page Speed Report
What is the average speed when loading pages of different operating systems? Shows for each of the 15 operating systems, for which we have at least 100 measurements, the average Time to First Byte (TTFB) and Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) measurements, obtained from Google's Chrome User Experience Report (CrUX).
- Change Report
Which percentage of sites switched between operating system? Shows for each operating system the percentages of websites that recently switched to or from another operating system as well as the top five operating systems that were involved in such changes.
- List of up to 300 sites that switched between operating systems
Which popular sites changed their operating system? Shows the 300 most popular sites that switched from one operating system to another in the last month (if there are that many sites in a month). Also shows the involved operating systems.
- List of sites that use specific operating systems
For each of the 32 operating systems: which popular sites use it, which sites started or stopped using it recently? Shows up to 50 popular sites that use a specific operating system, and up to 50 sites that started using it in the last month, and up to 50 sites that stopped using it in the last month (if there are that many sites in a month).
- Market Position Report
Where in the market diagram are the operating systems? Shows the market position of the 30 most popular operating systems in terms of popularity and usage by high traffic sites.
- Ranking Breakdown Report
Which operating systems are popular among high traffic sites? Shows usage and ranks of all operating systems among websites within popularity ranges of the Alexa ranking, that is among the top 1 million sites, the top 100,000, the top 10,000 and the top 1,000 sites.
- Multiple Operating Systems Usage Report
How frequently are more than one operating system used on one site, and which ones? Shows for each operating system statistics on the usage together with other operating systems. We identify here usage on the same site, not necessarily on the same page.
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Cross-Technologies Market Segmentation Reports
Which operating systems are particularly strong in which markets? A large set of reports evaluating the combined usage of two categories of web technologies. This shows, for example, the usage and ranks of all operating systems on any top level domain compared to the usage on all websites.
These detailed reports are available not only for top level domains, but also for the usage of operating systems broken down by
- Content Management Systems
- Server-side Programming Languages
- Client-side Programming Languages
- JavaScript Libraries
- CSS Frameworks
- Web Servers
- Web Panels
- Web Hosting Providers
- Data Center Providers
- Reverse Proxy Services
- DNS Server Providers
- Email Server Providers
- SSL Certificate Authorities
- JavaScript Content Delivery Networks
- Traffic Analysis Tools
- Advertising Networks
- Tag Managers
- Social Widgets
- Site Elements
- Structured Data Formats
- Markup Languages
- Character Encodings
- Image File Formats
- Top Level Domains
- Server Locations
- Content Languages
- Geographical Distribution Report
Which operating system is the most popular one in each country? Shows a colored world map indicating the most popular operating system by country.
Please see technologies overview for explanations on the methodologies used in the surveys, and read our disclaimer to learn about possible incompleteness and inaccuracy of our data.
Table of Content
This is a preview of the current report's table of content.
1. About this Survey 3 2. Operating Systems 5 3. Usage Overview 7 3.1. Subcategories 8 4. Historical Trends 11 4.1. Monthly Usage 11 4.2. Yearly Usage 12 4.3. Subcategories 13 5. Growth Rates 29 6. Trend Analysis 30 7. New Site Usage 36 8. Top Site Usage 37 9. Page Speed 38 10. Changes 39 11. Sites with recent Technology Changes 43 12. Sites using specific Operating Systems 49 13. Market Position 110 14. Ranking Breakdown 113 15. Multiple Operating System Usage 118 16. Segmentation Reports 141 16.1. Content Management Systems 141 16.2. Server-side Programming Languages 1043 16.3. Client-side Programming Languages 1065 16.4. JavaScript Libraries 1071 16.5. CSS Frameworks 1128 16.6. Web Servers 1151 16.7. Web Panels 1222 16.8. Web Hosting Providers 1244 16.9. Data Center Providers 2412 16.10. Reverse Proxy Services 3076 16.11. DNS Server Providers 3105 16.12. Email Server Providers 3724 16.13. SSL Certificate Authorities 4336 16.14. JavaScript Content Delivery Networks 4380 16.15. Traffic Analysis Tools 4393 16.16. Advertising Networks 4525 16.17. Tag Managers 4602 16.18. Social Widgets 4610 16.19. Site Elements 4649 16.20. Structured Data Formats 4683 16.21. Markup Languages 4691 16.22. Character Encodings 4703 16.23. Image File Formats 4744 16.24. Top Level Domains 4756 16.25. Server Locations 5576 16.26. Content Languages 5780 17. Geographical Distribution 5898 Licence
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