January 2004 Netcraft Survey Highlights

The Netcraft Web Server Survey is a survey of Web server software usage on the Internet. Netcraft received responses to its January 2004 survey from 46,067,743 sites. This is 87,631 more sites than responded in December. 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 -0.05, 0.13, -0.07, and 0.00, respectively. Results from the January 2004 Netcraft Web Server Survey are in. Results for the January survey were compiled from responses received from 46 million sites, which represents an increase of about 87,000 more sites than responded in December. Despite the increase, the top-four players, Apache, Microsoft, SunONE, and Zeus, remained flat, with Apache and Microsoft IIS powering more than 87 percent of all sites.

Of the sites surveyed, 22,259,616, or 48 percent, had .com domains; 2,996,374, or about 6.5 percent, had .uk domains