
Operating System Market Share Q3 2026: Android 36%, Windows 33%, iOS 19%
OS market share Q3 2026: Android 35.8%, Windows 33.3%, iOS 19.3% of human web traffic, and why September's Windows lead isn't users switching.
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OS market share Q3 2026: Android 35.8%, Windows 33.3%, iOS 19.3% of human web traffic, and why September's Windows lead isn't users switching.

Google sent 89% of search referrals and Chrome carried 71% of web requests in Q3 2026. Microsoft 365 leads Google Workspace by 158,098 domains.

AWS grew 37% in Q2 2026. Its share is 28% of cloud spend, 37.7% of IaaS and 55.3% of hyperscaler traffic in Q3 2026, down from 60.8% a year earlier.

Google Cloud revenue hit $24.8B in Q2 2026, up 82%. But only 19% of enterprises run significant workloads on it. Full market share and competition data.

Firefox fell to 3.65% of human web traffic in Q3 2026, down 0.20 points in a year, as its desktop share slid to 7.4%. How it compares with Chrome.

Q3 2026: 98.9% of human web requests were HTTPS, against 88.3% of bot requests and 95.1% overall (Cloudflare Radar). Why the share of websites is lower.

UK humans were 53.6% mobile in Q3 2026 per Cloudflare Radar, while bots pushed all-traffic desktop to 57.4%. Why the two measures disagree.

Let's Encrypt logged 9.21 billion certificate records in Q3 2026 and 80.9% of final certificates. The top five CAs ranked by record count, with caveats.

Chrome took 68.6% of human web traffic in Q3 2026, up 1.25 points in a year, all of it on phones. Across 2026 it stayed flat while Edge gained.

Big Tech spent $171.2B on capex in Q2 2026 (+79% YoY), Nvidia sold $89B of data center chips in a quarter, and data centres used 485 TWh in 2025.

Safari held 17.8% of human web traffic in Q3 2026, down 1.5 points in a year, almost all on phones. Why September's uptick isn't a real recovery.

Social ad spend hit $276B-$306B in 2025, and Meta's Q2 2026 ad revenue rose 27%. 35 stats, plus Facebook Pixel on 3.6M sites (Sept 2026 crawl).

Q3 2026: Germany is the EU's largest e-commerce market, Italy's human web traffic is 55% mobile, and shopping sites draw 31% of AI-bot requests.

How much is AI worth in 2026? $64B (Gartner, models) to $347B (Statista revenue) and $2.67T (Gartner, all spending). 26 charts, Q3 2026 sources.

We checked 39 tech forecasts (Gartner, IDC, IEA) against our own detection data. OpenAI is live on 185,201 domains as of the August 2026 crawl, against 9.9 million running WordPress. See the gap.

Q3 2026: 54.4% of human web requests came from phones, but bots pushed all-traffic desktop to 60.4%. Bangladesh and Indonesia lead mobile use.

Q3 2026: Singapore completed 92.6% of TCP connections cleanly, the most reliable. Hungary, Spain and Chile led speed tests. Reliable is not fast.

Cloudflare Radar, Q3 2026: 9.92% of DNS queries reached DNSSEC-signed domains, but only 0.57% were validated end to end. Resolver support fell again.

ChatGPT reached 1.2B weekly users (OpenAI, 29 Sep 2026). Q3 2026 Radar data: GPTBot fell to 8.05% of AI-bot traffic as OpenAI's search crawler doubled.

Q3 2026 internet outages: Cloudflare Radar logged 48, with 22 in September alone. Iraq exam shutdowns made 18, power failures 14. September is provisional.

Cloudflare Radar, Q3 2026: search crawling doubled to 8.3% of AI-bot requests, training eased to 47.6% and Anthropic held #3. September is provisional.

AWS's main network carried 2.73% of global bytes in Q3 2026, and AWS took 55% of hyperscaler requests. Cloud provider market share by traffic in 2026.

Cloudflare Radar DNS rankings, Q3 2026: 14 of 16 category leaders held every date we sampled since July 2025. Music and Video Streaming flipped on 24 Sep.