Comment by shmeeed
3 days ago
PSA: Statcounter data is garbage, please stop referring to them.
This data is based on their own tracking solution customers, which is only about 0.3-0.6% of all websites (none of the big ones) and therefore highly self-selected.
Note that "unknown" is basically the inverse curve to Windows and has risen from 6 to 16% within the last year. In India, "unknown" has 55% market share. They don't give any explanation for this absolute failure of analytics, which is telling me that they really don't care at all.
There's no way to know within this context what "unknown" really is, but what I can tell you for sure is that any statistic based on this kind of data is absolutely useless.
Cloudflare is a better alternative: https://radar.cloudflare.com/explorer?dataSet=http&loc=&dt=5...
I don't really like linking to X, but there's also this "comprehensive" snapshot involving several more sources (which might be self-selecting in their own ways...): https://x.com/LundukeJournal/status/1999524735424823413
Note that they count the distribution ChromeOS as separate from other Linux, for me they add up to 7%.
But they also show both Android and iOS at 0% which makes me think the dataset is not really representative.
Android and iOS don't show because it's filtered for desktop.