Operating System Market Share September 2026: Android 36%, Windows 33%, iOS 19%
Operating system market share September 2026: Android 36.1%, Windows 32.9%, iOS 19.4%. Cloudflare Radar data, and why the Linux desktop spike wasn't real.
Emma DaviesEmma Davies
Data Analyst
Emma is a Data Analyst at TechnologyChecker, where she analyses technology adoption data to build better prospect lists and uncover actionable patterns for sales teams.
Her work involves diving deep into technographic datasets to identify which companies are using which technologies right now — and spotting the trends and signals that indicate buying intent. By finding patterns in technology stacks across millions of domains, she helps turn raw detection data into high-quality prospect intelligence that drives revenue.
Areas of Expertise
Technology Data AnalysisProspect IntelligencePattern RecognitionTechnographic Trend Research
Credentials
- BSc Data Science, Cardiff University
- Google Data Analytics Professional Certificate
- Tableau Desktop Certified Associate
Achievements
- Built prospect scoring models that improved lead conversion rates by 30%
- Identified technology adoption patterns across 10M+ domains for market reports
- Developed automated data pipelines for real-time prospect list generation
Emma’s Impact
Written from real expertise — every post adds first-hand know-how and original insights.
Most Read AuthorMost Prolific Author
Articles
23Total reads
8.1KHours of work
612hTopics covered
12Top articles by reads
All-time- 1ChatGPT Statistics 2026 - 900M Users, $25B ARR, and the Referral Burst That Did Not Last (September 2026 Update)2.4K reads47 min read~27h spent creating the content
- 2Cloud Provider Traffic Share in 2026: AWS, Google Cloud, and Azure's Share of Internet Traffic (September 2026 Update)1.1K reads72 min read~44h spent creating the content
- 3AI Market Size Statistics 2026: 26 Charts From $94B to $1.67 Trillion by 2031946 reads37 min read~22h spent creating the content
- 4Internet Outage Tracker 2026: Exam Shutdowns Came Back, and August Was the Busiest Month of the Year (September 2026 Update)605 reads76 min read~43h spent creating the content
- 5Data Center Market Statistics 2026: AI, $416B Market & the Power Ceiling493 reads22 min read~18h spent creating the content
Content effort estimates the hours Emma spent researching and creating each post. Every article is written in Emma’s field of expertise, so it carries first-hand know-how and unique insights — not commodity information rehashed from elsewhere.
Articles by Emma Davies
Emma Davies
Google vs Microsoft Market Share 2026: Google Owns the Web, Microsoft Owns the Workplace
Google takes 88.55% of search referrals to Microsoft's 3.53%. But Microsoft 365 leads Google Workspace by 117,342 domains and Windows edged past Android.
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Amazon Web Services (AWS) Statistics: Market Share & Competition Report 2026
AWS grew 37% in Q2 2026, its fastest since early 2022. Its market share reads 28%, 37.7% or 51.3% depending on who counts. Full data and charts.
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Google Cloud Statistics: Market Share & Competition Report 2026
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.
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Firefox Market Share September 2026: 3.7% Overall, 7.4% Desktop, 0.7% Mobile
Firefox holds 3.7% of human web traffic in September 2026 and moved 0.03 points across the whole of 2026, the stillest browser on the board. Full month-by-month 2026 breakdown against every rival.
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HTTPS Adoption 2026: 98.8% of Human Traffic Is Encrypted (September 2026 Update)
Live Cloudflare Radar data for August 2026: 98.8% of human web traffic is HTTPS, but bot traffic is only 88.1%. The 10.7-point gap has barely moved in a year. Full 121-country breakdown.
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Mobile vs Desktop in the UK: We Filtered Out the Bots — Here's the Real Human Split in 2026 (September 2026 Update)
UK web traffic ran 59% desktop in August 2026 per Cloudflare Radar, but filter the bots out and real humans are still mobile-first at 54%. The gap between the two measures has now held for a full year.
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Certificate Authority Market Share 2026: Top SSL CAs Ranked (September 2026 Update)
Certificate authority market share in 2026: Let's Encrypt issued 3.37 billion certificate records in August, still more than every other authority combined. Its measured share fell 24 points the same month, and we explain why that number is not what it looks like.
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Chrome Market Share September 2026: 68.5% Overall, 69% Mobile, 68% Desktop
Chrome holds 68.5% of human web traffic in September 2026, the #1 browser by 4x, but flat all year. Month-by-month 2026 data shows Edge is the browser actually gaining. Full monthly breakdown against every rival.
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Data Center Market Statistics 2026: AI, $416B Market & the Power Ceiling
Data center market statistics for 2026: a $416B market in 2024, the AI segment growing 25%+ a year, Nvidia at $193.7B, and power demand up 165% by 2030.
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Safari Market Share September 2026: 17.6% Overall, 26.1% Mobile, 6.7% Desktop
Safari holds 17.6% of human web traffic in September 2026, down 0.76 points across 2026. Month-by-month data shows the share went to Edge, not Chrome. Plus the 2.2-point weekend swing, the biggest of any browser.
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Social Media Advertising Insights 2026: 35 Stats, Plus 2M Live Ad Pixels
We tracked 2M+ live ad pixels and mapped them against $480B in projected spend. 35 stats on social media advertising ROI, engagement, and real platform traffic in 2026.
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Europe E-Commerce Statistics 2026: Germany, France & Italy Platform Mix
We track 13 e-commerce platforms in the EU's top 3 markets. PrestaShop beats Shopify 3.6:1 in France, WooCommerce leads Italy, Ecwid tops Germany.
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AI Market Size Statistics 2026: 26 Charts From $94B to $1.67 Trillion by 2031
Global AI market: $94.81B (2020) → $1.675T by 2031. 26 charts on segments, adoption and GenAI — plus why six major forecasters project $1.7T to $4.8T.
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Technology Trends 2026: We Checked 39 Forecasts Against What Is Actually Deployed (September 2026 Update)
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.
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Mobile Internet Usage by Country: Device Share Statistics for 2026 (September 2026 Update)
August 2026: mobile is still the human majority at 54.15%, but two thirds of the desktop rise is now bot composition, not behavior. Plus the weekend swing that every country ranking hides.
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Most Reliable Internet by Country: TCP Connection Quality Ranked in 2026 (September 2026 Update)
August 2026: Singapore took the top spot at 93.5% as Israel slipped to 91.4%, and global reliability is still structurally flat near 80% for the fourth consecutive month.
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DNSSEC Adoption in 2026: Only 0.54% of DNS Queries Are Actually Protected (September 2026 Update)
Cloudflare Radar data shows 11.8% of DNS queries reach DNSSEC-signed domains, but only 0.54% are validated end-to-end. In August 2026 validation fell for the first time in seven months.
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ChatGPT Statistics 2026 - 900M Users, $25B ARR, and the Referral Burst That Did Not Last (September 2026 Update)
Live Cloudflare Radar data (August 2026): GPTBot took 8.3% of AI-bot traffic and chatgpt.com referrals fell 42% from July's spike. OpenAI now crawls 425 pages for every referral it sends. Plus 900M users, $25B ARR, 50M paid subs.
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Internet Outage Tracker 2026: Exam Shutdowns Came Back, and August Was the Busiest Month of the Year (September 2026 Update)
August 2026 internet outage report: 15 disruptions, up from 11 in July. Iraq resumed exam shutdowns on August 26 after a seven-week pause, and power failures caused 6 of 15.
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AI Adoption Trends in 2026: We Analyzed 4 Internet Layers of Cloudflare Radar Data to Map How AI Hype Becomes Real Adoption (September 2026 Update)
Our 4-layer Cloudflare Radar read for August 2026: training fell to 40.1%, search rose to 16.5%, and Anthropic held #3 among bot operators. Cloudflare also retired a bot category this month, which fakes a 33% jump in AI crawler traffic.
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Cloud Provider Traffic Share in 2026: AWS, Google Cloud, and Azure's Share of Internet Traffic (September 2026 Update)
How much internet traffic do AWS, Google Cloud, and Azure carry? In August 2026 Microsoft's network took 3.48% of global bytes, and Google went from second-fastest origin to slowest.
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Most Popular Platforms & Technologies by Category in 2026: 15 of 16 Leaders Are Immovable, and the 16th Has Changed Hands Five Times (September 2026 Update)
Cloudflare Radar DNS rankings, August 2026: 15 of 16 category #1s have not moved in over a year. The 16th, Music, has flipped between Apple Music and Spotify five times in fifteen months. Full 16-category leaderboard.
Emma Davies