Linux has reached a new milestone in desktop market share. As of July 2024, Linux has achieved a 4.45% market share for desktop operating systems worldwide.
We measure internet usage trends. To accurately measure usage, we have to base our stats on page views (and not unique visitors). Let’s look at an example:
Person X uses two browsers. On a particular day, they load one page in Browser A. They load 500 pages in Browser B.
If we based our stats on unique visitors then usage of Browser A and B would both be recorded as 50%. This is obviously incorrect. This does not fairly represent the usage of the browsers given that Browser B was used 500 times more than browser A.
Using page views as the basis of our stats means that Browser A will be recorded at less than 1% in our stats whereas Browser B will be recorded at over 99%. In our view, this gives a more accurate representation of actual browser usage.
If I’m using both Windows and Linux interchangeably how am I counted? 🤔
Yes
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