CentOS
Red Hat, Raleigh, North Carolina, United StatesCentOS is a discontinued open-source 
Linux distribution compatible with RHEL.
According to our data, CentOS is the 5th most popular operating system on the web.
It has 4.2% of the operating system market share and is detected on 0.6% of all websites.
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Wikipedia📊 Rankings and Market Share
- Operating Systems
- Rank: 5
- Market share: 4.2%
- Legacy
- Rank: 13
- Market share: 2.2%
🏆 CentOS Awards
- 🥈 Second most popular in Japan in the Operating Systems category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in Japan in the Legacy category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in Korea in the Operating Systems category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in Taiwan in the Operating Systems category.
- ⭐ 4th most popular in the United States in the Operating Systems category.
- ⭐ 4th most popular in India in the Operating Systems category.
- ⭐ 4th most popular in China in the Operating Systems category.
- ⭐ 4th most popular in Hong Kong in the Operating Systems category.
- ⭐ 4th most popular in Vietnam in the Operating Systems category.
- ⭐ 4th most popular in the Philippines in the Operating Systems category.
⚡ Sites Using CentOS
We have data on 20,028 websites that use the CentOS operating system. Here is a list of some of the top ranked ones.
The highest rated site using CentOS is espn.com.
| # | Website | Rank | Country | Language |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | #141 | English | ||
| 2 | #199 | English | ||
| 3 | #3,293 | Japan | Japanese | |
| 4 | #3,339 | English | ||
| 5 | #3,399 | Thailand | Thai | |
| 6 | #3,636 | United States | English | |
| 7 | #4,765 | Japan | Japanese | |
| 8 | #4,771 | Netherlands | English | |
| 9 | #5,464 | Taiwan | Chinese | |
| 10 | #6,168 | Italy | Italian | |
| 11 | #6,246 | United States | English | |
| 12 | #6,453 | Italy | Italian | |
| 13 | #6,518 | United States | English | |
| 14 | #6,524 | Japan | Japanese | |
| 15 | #6,564 | Hungary | Hungarian | |
| 16 | #6,583 | Spain | Spanish | |
| 17 | #7,079 | Bangladesh | English | |
| 18 | #8,001 | United States | English | |
| 19 | #8,338 | Mexico | English | |
| 20 | #9,639 | Japan | Japanese |
📈 Usage Statistics
Most of the sites that use CentOS:
- are located in Japan
- have content in English
- use the .com domain extension
- fall into the Business category.
Most of the sites using CentOS are from Japan, the United States, and Germany.
- Japan 21.3%
- United States 18.8%
- Germany 5.6%
- Korea 4.9%
- Italy 3.2%
- Russia 3.2%
- Netherlands 3.1%
- Taiwan 2.9%
- United Kingdom 2.6%
- Other 34.4%
Most CentOS users speak English, Japanese, or Chinese.
- English 43.2%
- Japanese 19.9%
- Chinese 4.3%
- Spanish 4.1%
- Korean 4.1%
- Russian 3.6%
- German 3%
- Italian 2.3%
- Dutch 2.2%
- Other 13.3%
The CentOS operating system is especially popular on .com and .net top-level domains.
- .com 41.8%
- .net 5.4%
- .org 4.9%
- .jp 4.9%
- .ru 2.5%
- .co.jp 2.2%
- .de 2.2%
- .it 2.1%
- .nl 1.8%
- Other 32.2%
The primary market segments for websites utilizing CentOS include business, education and reference, and marketing and merchandising.
- Business 14.8%
- Education/Reference 10.8%
- Marketing/Merchandising 8.1%
- Internet Services 6.7%
- Entertainment 5.8%
- Online Shopping 5.6%
- Blogs/Wiki 4.5%
- Software/Hardware 3.2%
- Travel 3%
- Other 37.5%
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What is the company behind CentOS?
CentOS is owned by Red Hat, Inc., headquartered in Raleigh, North Carolina, United States.
Which country uses CentOS the most?
The majority of CentOS users are from Japan.
Who uses CentOS?
According to our data, CentOS is used on thousands of sites, including such established ones as espn.com,
go.com, and
sumo.or.jp.
Is CentOS used on government websites?
Yes, for example, it is used by nidw.gov.bd. Overall, we found CentOS on 4 government sites in the United States.
Do academic institutions use CentOS?
Yes. The most notable of these is usf.edu. In total, we know of 49 academic websites in the United States that use CentOS.
How does CentOS compare to its competitors?
CentOS is a fairly popular operating system, ranking ahead of 17 other operating systems we track.
What are the alternatives to CentOS?
Alternatives and possible competitors to CentOS may include Scientific Linux,
Red Hat Enterprise Linux, and 
TurboLinux.
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🗃️ About This Data
- We evaluate the popularity of technologies based on the number of websites where we detect their usage.
- Technologies without a detectable web footprint, and those we do not track, are not reflected in the calculated market share.
- This report is based on the analysis of 3,603,958 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.