October 2006 Netcraft Survey Highlights

The Netcraft Web Server Survey is a survey of Web server software usage on the Internet. Netcraft received responses to its October 2006 survey from 97,932,447 sites — a new record. This is about 9.8 million more sites than responded in July.

Little change in the big picture this quarter. Microsoft-powered sites (which include those running Microsoft-Internet-Information-Server, Microsoft-IIS, Microsoft-IIS-W, Microsoft-PWS-95, and Microsoft-PWS), accounted for nearly one-third of all domains, while Apache accounted for close to two thirds. Together, they accounted for nearly 93 percent of all domains.

Of the sites surveyed, 54,383,671, or 55.53 percent, had .com domains; 4,111,910, or 4.20 percent, of sites had .uk domains. Sites with.net domains were not measured.