December 2003 Netcraft Survey Highlights

The Netcraft Web Server Survey is a survey of Web server software usage on the Internet. Netcraft received responses to its December 2003 survey from 45,980,112 sites. This is 1 million (about 2.3 percent) more sites than responded in November. Although it represents yet another peak in the number of responses received, the four top-four players, Apache, Microsoft, SunONE, and Zeus, remained flat, seeing growth of 0.02, -0.15, -0.06, and -0.02, respectively. The results from the December 2003 Netcraft Web Server Survey are in. Results for the December survey were compiled from responses received from nearly 46 million sites, an increase of slightly more than 1 million servers than responded in November.

Of the servers surveyed, 22,087,096, or 48 percent, had .com domains; 2,975,196, or about 6.5 percent, had .uk domains