ServersJune 2003 Security Space Survey Results

June 2003 Security Space Survey Results

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The Security Space Web Server Survey is a survey of Web server software usage on the Internet broken down by 86 domains. Security Space estimates that even though there are almost 20 million Web sites, nearly 90 percent are “orphans” to which no other sites link.
Security Space’s Web server survey counts only those servers referenced on other sites. Security Space’s Web Server Survey breaks out Web server software usage on the Internet for 86 domains. Data for the June survey was gathered from responses received from more than 10.5 million Web sites. Nearly 5.4 million of these sites are .com domains.

More than 10.5 million Web sites responded to the June 2003 survey, exceeding last month’s peak of 10.4 million sites. More than 5.4 million of those, or 50.6 percent, had .com domains.

All Domains (10,698,608)
server order is based on global market share
Server June
Count
June % May
Count
May % Change
Apache 7,054,424 65.94% 6,813,534 65.31% +0.63%
Microsoft 2,599,493 24.30% 2,556,205 24.50% -0.20%
Netscape 108,258 1.01% 106,075 1.02% -0.01%
Zeus 95,465 0.89% 94,473 0.91% -0.02%
WebSTAR 67,952 0.64% 81,838 0.78% -0.14%
WebSite 29,408 0.27% 30,485 0.29% -0.02%
Other 743,608 6.95% 749,418 7.18% -0.23%

Domain Summary
Domain Description Web Servers Percentage
.com Commercial  5,410,488 50.57%
.net Network  756,183 7.07%
.de Germany  716,184 6.69%
.org Nonprofit Orgs  601,241 5.62%
.uk United Kingdom  358,153 3.35%
.edu Educational  92,921 0.87%
.gov U.S. Gov’t  12,041 0.11%

Server Breakdown Across All Domains
of the 10 most popular servers.
Server order is based on global market share
Server Name Number Found Percentage
Apache/1.3.27 2,679,666 25.05%
Microsoft-IIS/5.0 2,086,816 19.51%
Apache/1.3.26 1,430,703 13.37%
Apache 836,700 7.82%
Microsoft-IIS/4.0 472,343 4.41%
Apache/1.3.20 327,872 3.06%
Roxen/2.2.252 262,466 2.45%
Apache/1.3.22 241,805 2.26%
Apache/1.3.19 194,299 1.82%
Apache/1.3.23 160,356 1.50%

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