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November 2003 Security Space Survey Results

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The Security Space Web Server Survey is a survey of Web server software usage on the Internet broken down by 86 domains. Security Space estimates that even though there are almost 20 million Web sites, nearly 90 percent are “orphans” to which no other sites link.
Security Space’s Web server survey counts only those servers referenced on other sites.Security Space’s Web Server Survey breaks out Web server software usage on the Internet for 86 domains. Data for the November survey was gathered from responses received from nearly 13 million Web sites. About 50 percent of these sites are .com domains.

More than 12 million Web sites responded to the November 2003 survey, exceeding October’s peak of 12.2 million sites. More than 6 million of those, or 49.7 percent, had .com domains.

All Domains (12,838,116)
server order is based on global market share
Server November
Count
November % October
Count
October % Change
Apache 8,777,125 68.37% 8,286,004 67.81% +0.56%
Microsoft 2,953,914 23.01% 2,911,830 23.83% -0.82%
Netscape 112,023 0.87% 113,436 0.93% -0.06%
Zeus 103,755 0.81% 101,126 0.83% -0.02%
WebSTAR 58,408 0.45% 58,533 0.48% -0.03%
WebSite 26,746 0.21% 28,073 0.23% -0.02%
Other 806,145 6.28% 721,276 5.90% +0.38%

Domain Summary
Domain Description Web Servers Percentage
.com Commercial  6,375,764 49.66%
.net Network  921,571 7.18%
.de Germany  848,896 6.61%
.org Nonprofit Orgs  699,911 5.45%
.uk United Kingdom  403,848 3.15%
.edu Educational  99,814 0.78%
Server Breakdown Across All Domains
of the 10 most popular servers.
Server order is based on global market share
Server Name Number Found Percentage
Apache/1.3.27 2,609,695 20.33%
Microsoft-IIS/5.0 2,347,084 18.28%
Apache/1.3.26 1,377,888 10.73%
Apache 1,178,816 9.18%
Apache/1.3.28 819,823 6.39%
Apache/1.3.29 659,012 5.13%
Microsoft-IIS/4.0 415,827 3.24%
Apache/1.3.20 308,071 2.40%
Roxen/2.2.252 208,461 1.62%
Apache/1.3.22 204,631 1.59%
Apache/2.0.40 202,209 1.58%


This article was originally published on Dec 8, 2003

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