The share of Apple's OS X Yosemite in U.S. and Canadian Mac traffic more than tripled from July 24, the day the beta was released, to July 25.

Search-targeted advertising company Chitika said Yosemite's share in North American Web traffic on all Macintoshes was between 0.2 percent and 0.3 percent before jumping to more than 0.6 percent on July 25 and 0.7 percent on July 26.

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On July 27, the share dropped to a little over 0.6 percent, still triple before the debut of Yosemite. The percentages equate to six out of 1,000 Macintoshes getting the beta version of the system.

Chitika believed the upgrade to the operating system's share of all Macs would not increase beyond the peak of 0.7 percent.

"Assuming that most of the 1 million redemption codes have been claimed, it's unlikely that Yosemite's share of total Mac OS X Web traffic will grow much further beyond current usage rates while the OS remains in beta," Chitika  said.

Apple's OS X Yosemite is the 11th prime release of the OS X, the company's operating systems for servers and desktops. The beta version was made available to developers on June 2 but was only released to the first one million who signed up for the beta on July 24.

Though some users experienced problems downloading the beta last week, the increase in usage still jumped by 0.5 percent. Not everyone was hit with problems and the biggest complaints died down during the weekend, according to several forums such as MacRumors.

The beta codes that Apple gave out for free to the first million subscribers, however, were not totally consumed. The company still had available codes  as of 2 p.m. on Monday.

Apple has not disclosed the launch date for the operating system but most speculate the final version will be released in the second half of October.

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