diff --git a/cipherscan b/cipherscan
index 61bd12e..e817285 100755
--- a/cipherscan
+++ b/cipherscan
@@ -297,13 +297,18 @@ display_results_in_terminal() {
     else
         echo "OCSP stapling: not supported"
     fi
+    if [[ $serverside == "True" ]]; then
+        echo "Server side cipher ordering"
+    else
+        echo "Client side cipher ordering"
+    fi
 }
 
 
 display_results_in_json() {
     # Display the results in json
     ctr=0
-    echo -n "{\"target\":\"$TARGET\",\"date\":\"$(date -R)\",\"ciphersuite\": ["
+    echo -n "{\"target\":\"$TARGET\",\"date\":\"$(date -R)\",\"serverside\":\"${serverside}\",\"ciphersuite\": ["
     for cipher in "${cipherspref[@]}"; do
         [ $ctr -gt 0 ] && echo -n ','
         echo -n "{\"cipher\":\"$(echo $cipher|awk '{print $1}')\","
@@ -321,6 +326,59 @@ display_results_in_json() {
     echo ']}'
 }
 
+test_serverside_ordering() {
+
+    local ciphersuite=""
+    local prefered=""
+    # server supports only one cipher or no ciphers, so it effectively uses server side ordering...
+    if [[ ${#cipherspref[@]} -lt 2 ]]; then
+        serverside="True"
+        return 0
+    # server supports just two ciphers, so rotate them, that should be enough
+    elif [[ ${#cipherspref[@]} -eq 2 ]]; then
+
+        local cipher=$(awk '{print $1}' <<< ${cipherspref[1]})
+        prefered="$cipher"
+        ciphersuite=$cipher
+
+        cipher=$(awk '{print $1}' <<< ${cipherspref[0]})
+        ciphersuite+=":$cipher"
+
+    # server supports 3 or more ciphers, rotate all three. This is necessary because google does
+    # select first client provided cipher, if it is either CDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 or
+    # ECDHE-RSA-CHACHA20-POLY1305
+    else
+        local cipher=$(awk '{print $1}' <<< ${cipherspref[2]})
+        prefered="$cipher"
+        ciphersuite="$cipher"
+
+        cipher=$(awk '{print $1}' <<< ${cipherspref[1]})
+        ciphersuite+=":$cipher"
+
+        cipher=$(awk '{print $1}' <<< ${cipherspref[0]})
+        ciphersuite+=":$cipher"
+    fi
+
+
+    if [ -e $CACERTS ]; then
+        local sslcommand="timeout $TIMEOUT $OPENSSLBIN s_client -CAfile $CACERTS -status $SCLIENTARGS -connect $TARGET -cipher $ciphersuite"
+    else
+        local sslcommand="timeout $TIMEOUT $OPENSSLBIN s_client -status $SCLIENTARGS -connect $TARGET -cipher $ciphersuite"
+    fi
+
+    test_cipher_on_target "$sslcommand"
+    if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
+        serverside="True"
+    else
+        local selected=$(awk '{print $1}' <<< $result)
+        if [[ $selected == $prefered ]]; then
+            serverside="False"
+        else
+            serverside="True"
+        fi
+    fi
+}
+
 # UNKNOWNOPTIONS=""
 while :
 do
@@ -407,6 +465,8 @@ results=()
 # Call to the recursive loop that retrieves the cipher preferences
 get_cipher_pref $CIPHERSUITE
 
+test_serverside_ordering
+
 if [ "$OUTPUTFORMAT" == "json" ]; then
     display_results_in_json
 else