Certificate populations.

What the live web PKI looks like right now — every unexpired certificate, by CA, key type and lifetime.

1.72B active (unexpired) certificates · as of 2026-09-18 11:20 UTC

By certificate authority

Grouped by issuer organization; top 31 shown, the rest folded into “Other CAs”.

CA ownerCertificatesShare
Let's Encrypt 676.8M
Google Trust Services 381.9M
Amazon 223M
GoDaddy.com 124.6M
ZeroSSL GmbH 98.5M
Microsoft Corporation 61.1M
DigiCert Inc 40.7M
Sectigo Limited 32.5M
SSL Corporation 28.8M
GoDaddy.com, Inc. 20.3M
IdenTrust 18.4M
GlobalSign nv-sa 1.7M
Actalis S.p.A. 1.6M
TrustAsia Technologies, Inc. 1.6M
DigiCert, Inc. 1M
Hellenic Academic and Research Institutions CA 1M
Meraki LLC 696.3K
Google UK Ltd. 456.8K
Gandi SAS 442.2K
Internet2 292.7K
Starfield Technologies, Inc. 263K
cPanel, LLC 255.6K
Asseco Data Systems S.A. 255.4K
Starfield Technologies 192.5K
home.pl S.A. 171.8K
Certainly 149K
Entrust Limited 129.1K
DigiCert Ireland Limited 128.9K
Japan Registry Services Co., Ltd. 123.1K
InCommon, LLC 108.8K
Other CAs 1.7M

By public-key type

Signature key algorithm and strength of the active population.

Key typeCertificatesShare
RSA 2048 835.5M
ECDSA P-256 678.8M
ECDSA P-384 131.1M
RSA 4096 68.6M
RSA 3072 5.1M
RSA (other) 2.5K
ECDSA P-521 679

By validity lifetime

Days from notBefore to notAfter — the industry is moving toward ever-shorter certificates.

LifetimeCertificatesShare
≤ 10 days 3M
11–47 days 15.2M
48–90 days 1.22B
91–100 days 25.4M
101–200 days 355.3M
201–398 days 102.5M
> 398 days 60K

Counts cover only currently-unexpired certificates and are approximate (deduplicated with a HyperLogLog estimator, sub-percent error). CA/precertificate pairs are counted once. Refreshed every few hours.