Every category where a model named Certify The Web for a mid-market B2B company. Share is first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts; rank is within every product named in that category.

Category	Function	Share	Rank	Negative rate	Labels	Quadrant	Since September 2026
Certificate lifecycle management	Identity and access	2%	13 of 104	14%	7	under 10 labels · led by Sectigo Certificate Manager at 27%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Certify The Web yet. From the next edition this section shows, per buyer segment and per category, whether its share moved by more than the measured noise floor.

By model

How each model treated Certify The Web across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.

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Model	First choice	Alternative	Mention	Negative	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	0	0	0	0	0
GPT-5.4 mini	0	0	0	0	0
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	1	0	0	1
Perplexity Sonar	0	1	0	0	1
Grok 4.1 Fast	0	0	1	0	1
Mistral Small	0	0	0	0	0
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	0	0	0	0
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0	1	0	1
Qwen 3.7 Flash	1	0	0	0	1
Kimi K2	0	0	0	0	0
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	1	0	0	1
MiniMax M2.5	0	0	0	0	0
GPT-6 Luna	0	0	0	0	0
Muse Glimmer 30B	0	0	0	1	1

By framing

Which of the six questions produced the naming. By model says how often; this says asked what. The first-choice count on the right carries the marks of the models that produced it.

FramingLabels by classFirst choices

Direct2 labels1

Paraphrase5 labelsNone

Comparative6 labels5not counted in share

Budget-constrained6 labels2

Scale-constrained1 labelNone

Negative9 labels2not counted in share

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative29 labels in all, every segment counted; 3 of the 10 first choices count toward share, since the comparative and negative framings do not. The bar is one segment per label class, to scale within the framing.

What the models said for it

Verbatim evidence the judge attached to positive labels.

“Choose Certify The Web if you manage Windows servers locally... This is the cheapest way to achieve high security without spending anything.” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Certificate management · budget prompt · first choice

“Certify The Web or ZeroSSL are also cited as lower-cost options for smaller teams” Perplexity Sonar · Certificate management · budget prompt · alternative

“Best for Windows-Heavy & Budget-Conscious Teams: Certify The Web (CCM)” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Certificate management · paraphrase prompt · alternative

“Certify The Web | IIS/Azure-heavy teams” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Certificate management · paraphrase prompt · alternative

And against it

Verbatim evidence attached to negative labels. A warning on a product with few labels is a warning; on a product with many, it is one voice among them.

“cited in roundups as a Windows-oriented automation reference point, implying limited cross-platform coverage” Muse Glimmer 30B · Certificate management · negative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Certify The Web, over the 29 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Certify The Web was named but was not.

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ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

ZeroSSL23 of 291Not among the top eight

Sectigo Certificate Manager12 of 293Not among the top eight

AWS Certificate Manager12 of 292Not among the top eight

Keyfactor10 of 291Not among the top eight

Venafi9 of 291Not among the top eight

AppViewX CERT+9 of 290Not among the top eight

Keyfactor Command9 of 290Not among the top eight

DigiCert7 of 291Not among the top eight

DigiCert Trust Lifecycle Manager7 of 290Not among the top eight

DigiCert CertCentral5 of 291Not among the top eight

A head-to-head page exists where both products are among a category's top eight. The other rows are the same fact without a page behind them, so they link to the product instead.

What carried it into the answer

The sites and pages cited by the answers that named Certify The Web. A fact about retrieval, not a lever on the model.

Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, five of the fourteen in this edition, so these counts come from 29 of the 29 answers that named Certify The Web and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

gitnux.org25

worldmetrics.org25

g2.com18

sectigo.com14

slashdot.org11

cyberpress.org10

devopsschool.com10

digicert.com9

guideflow.com9

qcecuring.com9

140 of the 140 domain citations in answers naming Certify The Web came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

gitnux.org/best/certificate-lifecycle-management-software24

worldmetrics.org/best/certificate-management-software14

g2.com/categories/certificate-lifecycle-management-clm/small-business13

worldmetrics.org/best/certificate-lifecycle-management-software11

cyberpress.org/certificate-lifecycle-pki-by-use-case10

guideflow.com/blog/ssl-certificate-management-software9

qcecuring.com/blog/best-clm-platforms-20269

slashdot.org/software/certificate-lifecycle-management/f-small-business9

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Search and answers

certifytheweb.com is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, Certify The Web takes 2% of first choices and Sectigo Certificate Manager takes 27%.

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In search

Google, US estimates

Position for “certificate lifecycle management platform”

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not in the top ten

Position for “certificate lifecycle management platforms”

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not in the top ten

Searches for its name, Google: 880 a month (“certify the web”)
AI search demand for its name, est.: 9 a month
Organic visits to its site: about 29,388 a month
Searches its site ranks for: 525 · 21 in the top three
Sites linking to it: 1,288
Paid Google search: No ads found in the estimate; that does not mean it runs none

Ads on Google

None found in Google's ad transparency records for the US

In answers

This edition

Share of first choices

rank 13 of 104 in certificate management

Segment leader

27%

Sectigo Certificate Manager

First choices: 3 across its categories
Named in: 29 answers
Its own site cited: in 29 of the answers that named it

Search figures are US estimates from DataForSEO, read October 5, 2026; AI search demand is its modeled, directional estimate, not a count of queries to any assistant. The answers are this edition's. Two measurements side by side: neither is read as the cause of the other.

What it publishes

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Addresses on certifytheweb.com

990

subdomains included

Content

counted in the table below

Documentation

932

Product · Integration

0 · 0

Kind	Pages	Last 90 days	Latest
Report or ebook	32	undated
Glossary or explainer	5	0	2020-09-07
Comparison	2	0	2020-10-28

Most recent

2020-10-281099 comparison
2020-09-071019 glossary or explainer
2020-09-061016 glossary or explainer
2020-09-031011 glossary or explainer
2020-09-031012 glossary or explainer
2018-12-04291 comparison

How it is countedHide how it is counted

Every page certifytheweb.com exposes, subdomains included. Kind is read from the address and title. The last 90 days, the latest date and the twelve months count pages by when they were published, from the site's feeds, a date in the address, or the page's own publication date, read from up to a hundred of its most recently changed pages; a page that says only when it last changed is counted in its kind but not in when, so the recent counts are a floor, and a kind none of whose pages gives a publication date reads undated. Read October 5, 2026.

Names read as Certify The Web

What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Certify The Web; a claim can dispute any of them.

Certify The Web (CCM) 1Certify The Web (Formerly Win-acme) 1

Follow Certify The Web

An email the morning each edition publishes: where this product moved, where it held, and by how much against the noise floor. One address, confirmed by a click; a stop link in every email.

Already following? Everything you follow, with a stop for each.

The company

Certify The Web is its own company.

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In its own words

Stated by the vendor, not checked

Positioning: Automated SSL/TLS certificates
certifytheweb.com
For: Windows Server & IIS; centralized certificate management across multiple servers and organizations
certifytheweb.com
Price stated: Commercial users and funded organisations are required to purchase a license key once they have completed their evaluation certifytheweb.com
Free plan or trial: Download and evaluate for free, with no feature limitations and no time limit certifytheweb.com
Customers named: NASAWorld Health OrganizationUPSSIDEARM SportsKrusoNetservice
Not stated on the pages read: Starting price, integrations, certifications, hosting

What Certify The Web's own pages state, read October 5, 2026: certifytheweb.com. A claimed page can correct any of them.

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Claiming is free and changes nothing in the data. A claimed page shows a verified contact who is told when each edition publishes and when Certify The Web's standing changes by more than the noise floor; the right to propose corrections to the vendor table, meaning names the judge wrote that should or should not read as Certify The Web, applied by version and listed in the change log; and a one-line description supplied by the vendor and marked as such.

What a new claim receivesHide what a new claim receives

A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for Certify The Web by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:

where Certify The Web is named, by buyer and by framing, and which cells hold its first choices;
the claims the models make when they name it, ranked, with the strongest and the weakest quoted;
its vocabulary against the segment leader's, and the pages the models cited;
who was chosen in the answers that did not name Certify The Web, and every reason the record gives;
a battlecard for each top rival: the head-to-head split, why they win, and the reservation quoted against them;
one page of published figures cleared to show a buyer.