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Sam Soltano — 2013-05-15T00:00:00Z

Very long-term persistent cookies are 6 times more common on Windows-based websites than on Unix-based sites.

Sam Soltano — 2013-03-28T00:00:00Z

61.8% of .edu websites run on Windows, while 64.9% of all websites run on Unix-like systems.

Sam Soltano — 2012-12-14T00:00:00Z

The share of Red Hat among Linux distributions on web servers has dropped to 10%.

Sam Soltano — 2012-12-12T00:00:00Z

After three years of catching up, Windows is now losing web server market share to Unix-like systems.

Sam Soltano — 2012-11-15T00:00:00Z

Ubuntu is now used on 7% of all web servers, up from 5.5% one year ago.

Sam Soltano — 2012-11-01T00:00:00Z

85.1% of US Government (.gov) sites run on Windows, compared to 35.9% of all web sites.

Sam Soltano — 2012-10-30T00:00:00Z

After a long period of decline, usage of Gentoo for web servers is rising again.

Sam Soltano — 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

30.1% of all Linux-based websites run one of the established content management systems, but only 9.8% of Windows-based sites.

Sam Soltano — 2012-09-21T00:00:00Z

Debian is gaining websites from Red Hat, Centos and Fedora, but losing some to Ubuntu.

Sam Soltano — 2012-09-14T00:00:00Z

94.7% of the web servers in Uzbekistan run on Unix-like systems. More than anywhere else in the world.