Its mission statement states, “StatMarket presents raw data
computed from millions of daily Internet visitors to Web sites
monitored by WebSideStory’s HitBOX Tracker. StatMarket is all about
real statistical counts. We don’t have a panel. We don’t survey. We
don’t guess. We don’t judge. We just count and provide our analysis
for free.”
“According to StatMarket, which monitors over 25 million daily
visitors to over 79,000 independent Web sites, the Linux operating
system has experienced 25% growth since the beginning of 1999. The
percentage of Internet surfers using Linux is currently a whopping
0.22%, up from 0.16% in January of this year.”