November 3, 2004 November 2004 Netcraft Survey Highlights By ServerWatch Staff
The Netcraft Web Server Survey is a survey of Web server software usage on the Internet. Netcraft received responses to its November 2004 survey from 56,115,015 sites. This is nearly 726,549 more sites than responded in October.
November was the 22nd consecutive month of growth for the Web. The upswing began in February 2003 when the survey measured 35.8 million sites.
Although November brought yet another peak in the number of responses received, the top-four players, Apache, Microsoft (which includes Microsoft-Internet-Information-Server, Microsoft-IIS, Microsoft-IIS-W, Microsoft-PWS-95, and Microsoft-PWS), Sun (which includes SunONE, iPlanet-Enterprise, Netscape-Enterprise, Netscape-FastTrack, Netscape-Commerce, Netscape-Communications, Netsite-Commerce, and Netsite-Communications), and Zeus again remained flat, seeing growth of -0.15 percent, 0.16 percent, 0.10 percent, -0.03 percent, respectively.
Of the sites surveyed, 28,397,201, or 50.61 percent, had .com domains; 3,376,144, or about 6.02 percent, had .uk domains.
October Results
Server
No. of Sites
Market Share
No. of Sites With .com domains
Apache
38,028,642
67.77%
18,206,835
Microsoft-IIS
11,923,178
21.25%
6,872,462
Netscape-Enterprise
1,743,421
3.11%
1,109,720
Unknown
1,279,913
2.28%
733,728
Zeus
739,006
1.32%
358,173
Rapidsite
369,532
0.66%
229,316
tigershark
246,962
0.44%
187,480
thttpd
221,446
0.39%
3,614
Lotus Domino
90,818
0.16%
31,446
WebSTAR
59,244
0.11%
33,886
Stronghold
36,273
0.06%
23,520
Zope
32,025
0.06%
7,624
WebSitePro
25,239
0.04%
13,009
WebSite
24,856
0.04%
11,815
4D_WebSTAR_S
15,111
0.03%
7,117
WN
12,124
0.02%
2,139
JRun
9,921
0.02%
9,602
CoffeeMaker
9,587
0.02%
1,026
AOLServer
8,336
0.01%
3,966
WebLogic
8,157
0.01%
5,149
Oracle9iAS
7,377
0.01%
3,881
Orion
6,794
0.01%
4,035
Roxen WebServer
5,824
0.01%
2,657
Squid
5,677
0.01%
1,056
Sambar
5,499
0.01%
2,142
Enterprise for NetWare
5,345
0.01%
1,542
Xitami
4,432
0.01%
2,405
Netscape FastTrack Server
4,188
0.01%
1,664
NCSA HTTPd
2,029
0.00%
480
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