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Technologies > SSL Certificate Authorities > Let’s Encrypt > Reports Overview > Market Report

Let’s Encrypt Market Report

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SSL certificate authorities reports

This extensive report shows many detailed statistics of the SSL certificate authority market with a specific focus on Let’s Encrypt.

Our technology market report is a detailed monthly report on the usage of Let’s Encrypt as SSL certificate authority on websites. The report comes via email as a PDF file and has over 400 pages covering this information:

  • SSL Certificate Authorities Industry Reports
    • Usage and Market Share Report
      How popular is each of the SSL certificate authorities? Shows percentages of usage and market shares for all 51 SSL certificate authorities 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 SSL certificate authorities change over time? Shows tables and diagrams of historical trends of usage and market shares for all SSL certificate authorities since January 2016. Please note, that we permanently keep adding more SSL certificate authorities to our surveys, therefore not all of them cover the entire time frame.
    • Growth Rate Report
      Which are the fastest growing SSL certificate authorities? Shows the current growth rates in the usage of all SSL certificate authorities both in absolute figures and percentages in the last month and in the last year.
    • New Site Usage Report
      How popular is each of the SSL certificate authorities among new sites? Shows percentages of usage and market shares for all SSL certificate authorities 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 SSL certificate authorities are primarily used by high traffic sites? Shows for each SSL certificate authority the share of top sites among all the sites that use that specific SSL certificate authority.
  • Let’s Encrypt Reports
    • Historical Trend Report
      How did the popularity of Let’s Encrypt change from month to month? Shows tables and diagrams of monthly trends of usage and market shares for Let’s Encrypt since December 2015.
    • Trend Analysis Report
      Which market segments contributed most to usage changes? Shows which geographical regions, identified by top level domain and content language, saw popularity gains or declines in the popularity of Let’s Encrypt in the last 12 months.
    • Change Report
      Which percentage of sites switched from another SSL certificate authority to Let’s Encrypt and vice versa? Shows the percentages of websites that recently changed between Let’s Encrypt and other SSL certificate authorities. It also shows examples of sites that made a change.
    • Ranking Breakdown Report
      Is the popularity of Let’s Encrypt higher among high traffic sites? Shows usage and market shares of Let’s Encrypt broken down by 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. Also shows the popularity rank of Let’s Encrypt among all SSL certificate authorities in these ranges and the most popular competing technology.
    • Market Position Report
      Where in the market diagram lies Let’s Encrypt? Shows the market position of Let’s Encrypt in terms of popularity and usage by high traffic sites, compared to the most popular SSL certificate authorities.
    • Multiple SSL Certificate Authorities Usage Report
      How frequently are other SSL certificate authorities used together with Let’s Encrypt, and which ones? Shows statistics on the usage of Let’s Encrypt together with other SSL certificate authorities (if any). We identify here usage on the same site, not necessarily on the same page.
    • Cross-Technologies Breakdown and Segmentation Reports
      In which markets is Let’s Encrypt particularly strong and which one is the most popular competing technology in each market? A set of reports evaluating the combined usage of two categories of web technologies. This shows, for example, the usage and market shares of Let’s Encrypt on any top level domain compared to its usage on all websites and the most popular competing technology on each top level domain. Also shows the rank of Let’s Encrypt among all SSL certificate authorities for each top level domain, compared to its overall rank. Furthermore, this includes the ranking and percentages of all top level domains among all the sites that use Let’s Encrypt.

      These detailed reports are available not only for top level domains, but also for the usage of Let’s Encrypt broken down by

      • Content Management Systems
      • Server-side Programming Languages
      • Client-side Programming Languages
      • JavaScript Libraries
      • CSS Frameworks
      • Web Servers
      • Web Panels
      • Operating Systems
      • Web Hosting Providers
      • Data Center Providers
      • Reverse Proxy Services
      • DNS Server Providers
      • Email Server Providers
      • 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
      How popular is Let’s Encrypt in each country? Shows a colored world map indicating the usage percentage of Let’s Encrypt by country.
    • List of the 300 most popular sites using Let’s Encrypt including their usage of other SSL certificate authorities (if any).
    • List of up to 300 popular sites that started using Let’s Encrypt in the last month (if there are that many sites in a month), including the SSL certificate authorities they were using before (if any).
    • List of up to 300 popular sites that discontinued using Let’s Encrypt in the last month (if there are that many sites in a month), including the SSL certificate authorities they are using now (if any).

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. Quick Summary 5
3. SSL Certificate Authorities, Industry Overviews 6
3.1. Usage Overview 6
3.2. Historical Trends 8
3.3. Growth Rates 17
3.4. New Site Usage 19
3.5. Top Site Usage 21
4. Let’s Encrypt, Technology Market Reports 23
4.1. Historical Trends 23
4.2. Trend Analysis 30
4.2.1. Trend Analysis per Top Level Domains 30
4.2.2. Trend Analysis per Content Languages 50
4.3. Changes 54
4.4. Ranking Breakdown 56
4.5. Market Position 57
4.6. Breakdown and Segmentation Reports 58
4.6.1. Content Management Systems 58
4.6.2. Server-side Programming Languages 110
4.6.3. Client-side Programming Languages 112
4.6.4. JavaScript Libraries 114
4.6.5. CSS Frameworks 118
4.6.6. Web Servers 120
4.6.7. Web Panels 126
4.6.8. Operating Systems 128
4.6.9. Web Hosting Providers 130
4.6.10. Data Center Providers 191
4.6.11. Reverse Proxy Services 226
4.6.12. DNS Server Providers 228
4.6.13. Email Server Providers 256
4.6.14. JavaScript Content Delivery Networks 284
4.6.15. Traffic Analysis Tools 286
4.6.16. Advertising Networks 294
4.6.17. Tag Managers 300
4.6.18. Social Widgets 302
4.6.19. Site Elements 306
4.6.20. Structured Data Formats 310
4.6.21. Markup Languages 312
4.6.22. Character Encodings 314
4.6.23. Image File Formats 318
4.6.24. Top Level Domains 320
4.6.25. Server Locations 370
4.6.26. Content Languages 383
4.7. Geographical Distribution 393
4.8. Popular Sites using Let’s Encrypt 394
4.9. Sites using Let’s Encrypt only recently 400
4.10. Sites that recently stopped using Let’s Encrypt 406

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