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Operating System Market Share 2026

Pageview-weighted operating system share — Windows, Android, Linux, macOS, iOS, Chrome OS and the long tail — measured across the BYOViral public analytics network. Refreshed daily from live traffic, not surveys.

By BYO Team Window: 2026-07-28 — 2026-08-26 Last updated August 25, 2026
Windows accounts for 49.1% of pageviews on the BYOViral public network over the trailing 30 days, with 328,145 pageviews recorded across 19 distinct operating systems. BYOViral Intelligence Center, August 2026 · https://www.byoviral.com/intelligence/operating-system-share-2026
668,703
Pageviews observed
19
Distinct operating systems
30
Days observed

Operating system market share — 2026-07-28 to 2026-08-26

Top 19 operating systems by total pageviews.
#Operating systemPageviewsShare
1 Windows 328,145
2 OS X 150,485
3 Linux 117,338
4 Android 47,568
5 iOS 24,023
6 Ubuntu 520
7 Chrome OS 439
8 FireOS 65
9 CentOS 49
10 Debian 32
11 Fedora 26
12 Series60 3
13 FreeBSD 3
14 Windows Mobile 2
15 Series40 1
16 Windows Phone 1
17 BlackBerry 1
18 DragonFly BSD 1
19 Harmony OS 1
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Methodology

Operating systems are parsed from the User-Agent string of each incoming pageview beacon at collection time. Pageviews are aggregated daily, network-wide, across public opt-in BYOViral sites only — private sites never contribute to this dataset. Because the measurement is pageview-weighted live traffic (not a panel or a survey), heavy-browsing platforms are represented in proportion to actual usage on the network.

The network composition affects the mix: participating sites currently skew toward desktop-heavy content audiences, which lifts Windows and Linux relative to global mobile-first benchmarks. Read this dataset alongside the Browser Market Share 2026 report, and see the full methodology and sample-size disclosure for exact scope.