Correct scope: 5,000 large companies and organizations, not a top-5,000 ranking

README.md

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-pretty_name: "Let's Encrypt Adoption Among the Top 5,000 Companies"
+pretty_name: "Let's Encrypt Adoption Among 5,000 Large Companies and Organizations"
 license: cc-by-4.0
 tags:
   - cybersecurity
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   - 1K<n<10K
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-# Let's Encrypt Adoption Among the Top 5,000 Companies
+# Let's Encrypt Adoption Among 5,000 Large Companies and Organizations
 
 ## Overview
 
-This dataset lists 5,050 large companies whose websites were found to use SSL/TLS certificates issued by Let's Encrypt. Each row carries firmographic context for the company: industry, employee band, country, locality, founding year and LinkedIn profile.
+This dataset lists 5,050 large companies and organizations whose websites were found to use SSL/TLS certificates issued by Let's Encrypt. Each row carries firmographic context: industry, employee band, country, locality, founding year and LinkedIn profile.
+
+The file is a sample of large organizations that use Let's Encrypt. It is not a ranking, and it is not the 5,000 largest or most popular organizations in the world.
 
 It is intended for technology research, cybersecurity analysis, technographic research, competitive intelligence, market analysis and data science.
 
@@ -33,10 +35,11 @@ Full Let's Encrypt statistics, including the global heatmap, usage by country an
 
 ## Dataset Highlights
 
-* 5,050 companies, one row each, with no repeated domains
-* Every company in the file uses Let's Encrypt, so there is no adoption column. Adoption is the selection criterion
-* Every company has 5,001 or more employees
+* 5,050 organizations, one row each, with no repeated domains
+* Every organization in the file uses Let's Encrypt, so there is no adoption column. Adoption is the selection criterion
+* Every organization has 5,001 or more employees
 * 142 industries and 140 countries represented
+* Not only private companies: 1,120 rows (22%) are government bodies, universities, schools, non-profits and similar institutions
 
 ## What is Let's Encrypt?
 
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 | Column | Type | Coverage | Description |
 | ------ | ---- | -------- | ----------- |
-| `Popularity Rank` | int64 | 100% | Website popularity rank, lower being more popular. Ranges from 5 to 1,959,064 |
+| `Popularity Rank` | int64 | 100% | Website popularity rank, lower being more popular. Ranges from 5 to 1,959,064. Rows are stored in ascending rank order |
 | `Domain` | string | 100% | Primary website domain. Unique across the file |
 | `Company Name` | string | 100% | Company or organization name, lowercased |
 | `Company Size` | string | 100% | Employee band. Two values: `5001-10000` (2,245 rows) and `10001+` (2,805 rows) |
@@ -56,7 +59,7 @@ The data is in `Lets-Encrypt.csv`: 5,050 rows, 15 columns. Coverage is the share
 | `Industry` | string | 99.7% | Industry label, lowercased. 142 distinct values |
 | `LinkedIn URL` | string | 100% | Company LinkedIn profile path |
 | `Locality` | string | 85.1% | City or region, where available |
-| `Country` | string | 100% | Company or website country. 140 distinct values |
+| `Country` | string | 100% | Organization or website country. 140 distinct values |
 | `TLD` | string | 100% | Top-level domain. 355 distinct values |
 | `Language` | string | 0.6% | Detected site language |
 | `Instagram` | string | 0.4% | Instagram handle |
@@ -68,7 +71,7 @@ The language and social columns are populated for fewer than 1% of rows.
 
 ## Methodology
 
-Websites were analyzed for technical fingerprints associated with Let's Encrypt. A company is considered a Let's Encrypt adopter when the relevant certificate or technology footprint is detected on its associated website.
+Websites were analyzed for technical fingerprints associated with Let's Encrypt. An organization is considered a Let's Encrypt adopter when the relevant certificate or technology footprint is detected on its associated website.
 
 Technology detection represents an observation at the time of collection and should not be interpreted as confirmation of an organization's complete infrastructure.
 
@@ -92,7 +95,7 @@ This dataset can be used for:
 * Website infrastructure can change over time.
 * Results represent observations from the dataset's collection period.
 * The dataset should not be interpreted as an official statement from any company regarding its technology stack.
-* Every row is an adopter, so the file describes what Let's Encrypt adopters look like. Measuring what share of large companies use Let's Encrypt would require a comparable sample of non-adopters, which is not included here.
+* Every row is an adopter, so the file describes what Let's Encrypt adopters look like. Measuring what share of large organizations use Let's Encrypt would require a comparable sample of non-adopters, which is not included here.
 
 ## Citation
 
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 Plain text:
 
-StackScan. (2026). *Let's Encrypt Adoption Among the Top 5,000 Companies* [Data set]. StackScan. https://www.stackscan.com/technology/lets-encrypt
+StackScan. (2026). *Let's Encrypt Adoption Among 5,000 Large Companies and Organizations* [Data set]. StackScan. https://www.stackscan.com/technology/lets-encrypt
 
 BibTeX:
 
 ```bibtex
 @misc{stackscan_lets_encrypt_2026,
   author       = {{StackScan}},
-  title        = {Let's Encrypt Adoption Among the Top 5,000 Companies},
+  title        = {Let's Encrypt Adoption Among 5,000 Large Companies and Organizations},
   year         = {2026},
   publisher    = {StackScan},
   howpublished = {\url{https://www.stackscan.com/technology/lets-encrypt}},