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The Netcraft Web Server Survey is a survey of Web Server software usage on Internet connected computers. We collect and collate as many hostnames providing an http service as we can find, and systematically poll each one with an HTTP request for the server name.
In the July 2001 survey we received responses from 31,299,592 sites.

Market Share for Top Servers Across All Domains August 1995 - July 2001

Graph of market share for top servers across all domains, August 1995 - July 2001

Top Developers

Developer	June 2001	Percent	July 2001	Percent	Change
Apache	18466153	63.02	18382308	58.73	-4.29
Microsoft	5973654	20.39	8099757	25.88	5.49
iPlanet	1802041	6.15	1345566	4.30	-1.85
Zeus	810108	2.76	793587	2.54	-0.22

Active Sites

Developer	June 2001	Percent	July 2001	Percent	Change
Apache	7346025	62.42	7314577	60.53	-1.89
Microsoft	3076623	26.14	3372341	27.91	1.77
iPlanet	273293	2.32	282517	2.34	0.02
Zeus	182735	1.55	184895	1.53	-0.02

Totals for Active Servers Across All Domains June 2000 - July 2001

iPlanet is the sum of sites running iPlanet-Enterprise, Netscape-Enterprise, Netscape-FastTrack, Netscape-Commerce, Netscape-Communications, Netsite-Commerce & Netsite-Communications.

Microsoft is the sum of sites running Microsoft-Internet-Information-Server, Microsoft-IIS, Microsoft-IIS-W, Microsoft-PWS-95, & Microsoft-PWS.

Platform groupings are here.

Around the Net

Microsoft gains around five and a half per cent of web hosts this month, and almost 2% of active sites. Primarily this is a result of two large US installations converting from Solaris.

The large free hosting company Namezero, hosted on the Exodus network, has migrated its front end systems to Windows 2000, as has part of the Network Solutions domain registration system. Network Solutions has moved physically from Digex, to Interland, [where Microsoft held a minority interest, prior to the sale to Micron] as part of the process.

These large installations had previously been masking a general decline in Solaris share on the web, which is now down four percentage points over the last year. Additionally, the Network Solutions site was by far the largest Netscape-Enterprise installation in terms of numbers of hostnames, and one would expect that Netscape-Enterprise overall share will drop towards the 2-2.5% it has in the active sites analysis over the next few months.

First .Net site spotted

This months survey also found a site outside of microsoft.com offering Microsoft's .Net services. This is earlier than many people expected, however the site www.empowered.com is a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner and Microsoft itself has several sites using .Net, including uddi.microsoft.com.

pre release of Windows .Net Server becoming quite widely deployed

There are already between six and seven hundred sites running Microsoft-IIS/6.0 and Windows .Net Server, the operating system that will succeed Windows 2000 sometime next year. Windows .Net Server has had little media attention relative to .Net, and there has been no prior reporting of the availability of a pre release, but the sites running the Windows .Net pre-release are spread over several countries.

Mark Shuttleworth set to venture into space

Conversely, something that has been very widely reported is that Mark Shuttleworth, founder of the Thawte Certificate Authority is set to be the second space tourist. Mark sold Thawte to Verisign for $550M in November 1999, and is expected to provide Verisign stockholders with an opportunity to see their money literally go up in smoke later on this year.

Internet commerce steadily growing, recession or not

Despite the failure of many internet based companies over the last year, there has been steady growth in the numbers of sites performing encrypted transactions over the internet. Verisign recently reported that 87% of SSL certificates expiring in the last quarter were renewed, while our own SSL Survey shows growth of around 50% over a year ago. The OECD recently produced a comparison of the growth in internet SSL servers with the most comparable Nasdaq industry indexes for a recent US Federal Reserve meeting, and this is shown below.

Reports and Interactive Queries

Reports are provided showing server usage for the Internet as a whole, and for selected domains, with links to all the sites responding to the survey. A facility for you to check what server a particular site is running now is also available. The same form can be used to ensure that a particular site is included in future surveys. A directory of sites running in developer domains is also provided, while the sites discovered by the survey can be explored.

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