March 21, 2010
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.
Of the servers surveyed, 22,087,096, or 48 percent, had .com domains; 2,975,196, or about 6.5 percent, had .uk domains
| December Results | |||
| Server | No. of Servers in Use |
Market Share | No. of Servers With .com domains |
| Apache | 31,005,690 | 67.43% | 14,053,192 |
| Microsoft-IIS | 9,596,216 | 20.87% | 5,252,836 |
| Netscape-Enterprise | 1,521,607 | 3.31% | 855,383 |
| Unknown | 911,283 | 1.98% | 506,487 |
| Zeus | 749,791 | 1.63% | 371,544 |
| Rapidsite | 422,670 | 0.92% | 282,063 |
| tigershark | 255,114 | 0.55% | 185,220 |
| thttpd | 223,887 | 0.49% | 3,300 |
| Lotus Domino | 87,231 | 0.19% | 30,428 |
| WebSTAR | 71,416 | 0.16% | 39,887 |
| Stronghold | 37,370 | 0.08% | 21,500 |
| WebSitePro | 35,723 | 0.08% | 19,122 |
| WebSite | 27,202 | 0.06% | 15,185 |
| Zope | 25,622 | 0.06% | 5,740 |
| WN | 14,996 | 0.03% | 2,373 |
| 4D_WebSTAR_S | 11,996 | 0.03% | 6,022 |
| AOLServer | 8,586 | 0.02% | 5,463 |
| Roxen WebServer | 8,557 | 0.02% | 4,806 |
| WebLogic | 8,064 | 0.02% | 5,394 |
| Enterprise for NetWare | 7,661 | 0.02% | 2,133 |
| Orion | 6,865 | 0.01% | 4,070 |
| Sambar | 6,725 | 0.01% | 2,525 |
| Netscape FastTrack Server | 6,448 | 0.01% | 2,523 |
| Xitami | 4,605 | 0.01% | 2,433 |
| OmniHTTPd Pro | 3,796 | 0.01% | 916 |
| NCSA HTTPd | 3,045 | 0.01% | 732 |
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