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What is Let's Encrypt's market share?
As of July 28, 2026 · census snapshot 2026-07-28
As of July 28, 2026, Let's Encrypt issues the certificate for 52.62% of the 212.0 million certificate-presenting domains in the Defaults.Exposed census — 111,570,666 domains.
| Certificate authority | Domains | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Let's Encrypt | 111,570,666 | 52.62% |
| GoDaddy | 39,449,065 | 18.61% |
| Google Trust Services | 36,619,251 | 17.27% |
| Sectigo | 7,225,526 | 3.41% |
| DigiCert | 3,946,417 | 1.86% |
| ZeroSSL | 2,524,801 | 1.19% |
| Amazon | 1,506,659 | 0.71% |
| Actalis | 1,108,050 | 0.52% |
| Cloudflare | 1,006,341 | 0.47% |
| GlobalSign | 916,597 | 0.43% |
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Statistic current as of July 28, 2026. Recomputed from the live census each edition; the number on this page and the machine-readable twin always match. Please cite Defaults.Exposed and link this page.
Defaults.Exposed, "What is Let's Encrypt's market share?" (as of July 28, 2026). https://defaults.exposed/stats/what-is-lets-encrypts-market-share
Permalink:https://defaults.exposed/stats/what-is-lets-encrypts-market-share · Machine-readable:lets-encrypt-share.json · Licence:open data
Methodology: how we grade the internet · Source data: defaults.exposed/data. Updated with each census edition.