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 includes only those servers referenced on other sites.
Nearly 8.8 million Web sites responded to the August 2002 survey.
| All Domains (8,791,621) server order is based on global market share | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Server | August Count | August % | July Count | July % | Change |
| Apache | 5,845,842 | 66.49% | 5,758,921 | 68.39% | -1.90% |
| Microsoft | 1,923,409 | 21.88% | 1,892,143 | 22.47% | -0.59% |
| Netscape | 110,609 | 1.26% | 112,590 | 1.34% | -0.08% |
| Zeus | 74,702 | 0.85% | 74,355 | 0.88% | -0.03% |
| WebSTAR | 50,003 | 0.57% | 57,023 | 0.68% | -0.11% |
| WebSite | 29,502 | 0.34% | 30,221 | 0.36% | -0.02% |
| Other | 757,554 | 8.62% | 495,097 | 5.88% | +2.74% |
| Domain Summary | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Domain | Description | Web Servers | Percentage | |
| .com | Commercial | 5,041,454 | 57.34% | |
| .net | Network | 540,925 | 6.15% | |
| .de | Germany | 494,558 | 5.63% | |
| .org | Nonprofit Orgs | 463,817 | 5.28% | |
| .uk | United Kingdom | 278,670 | 3.17% | |
| .edu | Educational | 77,869 | 0.89% | |
| .gov | U.S. Gov’t | 10,473 | 0.12% | |
| 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/1.3.26 | 1,939,081 | 22.06% | ||
| Microsoft-IIS/5.0 | 1,315,375 | 14.96% | ||
| Apache/1.3.22 | 1,151,974 | 13.10% | ||
| Apache/1.3.19 | 625,192 | 7.11% | ||
| Microsoft-IIS/4.0 | 593,825 | 6.75% | ||
| Roxen/2.2.252 | 428,740 | 4.88% | ||
| Apache/1.3.20 | 358,283 | 4.08% | ||
| Apache | 289,506 | 3.29% | ||
| Apache/1.3.12 | 268,923 | 3.06% | ||
| Apache/1.3.9 | 192,396 | 2.19% | ||
The Security Space Web Server Survey is a survey of Web server software usage on the Internet broken down by 86 domains. Below are statistical breakouts for some of the more popular domains. Summary data is also available.
| .com (Commercial) Domains 5,041,454 servers server order is based on global market share | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Server | August Count | August % | July Count | July % | Change |
| Apache | 3,367,774 | 66.80% | 3,296,629 | 70.31% | -3.51% |
| Microsoft | 1,001,210 | 19.86% | 978,246 | 20.86% | -1.00% |
| Netscape | 48,227 | 0.96% | 48,831 | 1.04% | -0.08% |
| Zeus | 39,289 | 0.78% | 39,061 | 0.83% | -0.05% |
| WebSTAR | 31,750 | 0.63% | 31,836 | 0.68% | -0.05% |
| WebSite | 15,862 | 0.31% | 16,361 | 0.35% | -0.04% |
| Other | 537,342 | 10.66% | 278,039 | 5.93% | +4.73% |
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| .net (Network) Domains 540,925 servers server order is based on global market share | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Server | August Count | August % | July Count | July % | Change |
| Apache | 424,578 | 78.49% | 418,284 | 78.30% | +0.19% |
| Microsoft | 89,148 | 16.48% | 87,863 | 16.45% | +0.03% |
| Netscape | 4,651 | 0.86% | 4,727 | 0.88% | -0.02% |
| Zeus | 4,491 | 0.83% | 4,376 | 0.82% | +0.01% |
| WebSTAR | 1,536 | 0.28% | 1,542 | 0.29% | -0.01% |
| WebSite | 2,056 | 0.38% | 2,091 | 0.39% | -0.01% |
| Other | 14,465 | 2.67% | 15,331 | 2.87% | -0.20% |
| .de (Germany) Domains 494,558 servers server order is based on global market share | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Server | August Count | August % | July Count | July % | Change |
| Apache | 421,785 | 85.29% | 419,165 | 85.02% | +0.27% |
| Microsoft | 50,436 | 10.20% | 51,689 | 10.48% | -0.28% |
| Netscape | 7,336 | 1.48% | 7,578 | 1.54% | -0.06% |
| Zeus | 1,130 | 0.23% | 1,181 | 0.24% | -0.01% |
| WebSTAR | 1,163 | 0.24% | 1,248 | 0.25% | -0.01% |
| WebSite | 1,302 | 0.26% | 1,330 | 0.27% | -0.01% |
| Other | 11,406 | 2.31% | 10,825 | 2.20% | +0.11% |
| .org (Nonprofit Organizations) Domains 463,817 servers server order is based on global market share | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Server | August Count | August % | July Count | July % | Change |
| Apache | 303,792 | 65.50% | 297,419 | 65.91% | -0.41% |
| Microsoft | 124,332 | 26.81% | 119,142 | 26.40% | +0.41% |
| Netscape | 5,170 | 1.11% | 5,303 | 1.18% | -0.07% |
| Zeus | 3,950 | 0.85% | 3,910 | 0.87% | -0.02% |
| WebSTAR | 3,231 | 0.70% | 3,195 | 0.71% | -0.01% |
| WebSite | 3,155 | 0.68% | 3,255 | 0.72% | -0.04% |
| Other | 20,187 | 4.35% | 19,030 | 4.22% | +0.13% |
| .uk (United Kingdom) Domains 278,670 servers server order is based on global market share | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Server | August Count | August % | July Count | July % | Change |
| Apache | 146,331 | 52.51% | 145,960 | 52.69% | -0.18% |
| Microsoft | 67,057 | 24.06% | 64,602 | 23.32% | +0.74% |
| Netscape | 5,293 | 1.90% | 5,398 | 1.95% | -0.05% |
| Zeus | 15,516 | 5.57% | 15,565 | 5.62% | -0.05% |
| WebSTAR | 803 | 0.29% | 819 | 0.30% | -0.01% |
| WebSite | 695 | 0.25% | 714 | 0.26% | -0.01% |
| Other | 42,975 | 15.42% | 43,973 | 15.87% | -0.45% |
| .edu (Educational) Domains 77,869 servers server order is based on global market share | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Server | August Count | August % | July Count | July % | Change |
| Apache | 39,494 | 50.72% | 39,501 | 50.50% | +0.22% |
| Microsoft | 25,012 | 32.12% | 24,940 | 31.89% | +0.23% |
| Netscape | 4,018 | 5.16% | 4,161 | 5.32% | -0.16% |
| Zeus | 104 | 0.13% | 101 | 0.13% | 0.00% |
| WebSTAR | 2,436 | 3.13% | 2,524 | 3.23% | -0.10% |
| WebSite | 570 | 0.73% | 580 | 0.74% | -0.01% |
| Other | 6,235 | 8.01% | 6,406 | 8.19% | -0.18% |
| .gov (US Government) Domains 10,473 servers server order is based on global market share | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Server | August Count | August % | July Count | July % | Change |
| Apache | 3,805 | 36.33% | 3,825 | 36.56% | -0.23% |
| Microsoft | 3,615 | 34.52% | 3,611 | 34.52% | 0.00% |
| Netscape | 1,610 | 15.37 | 1,610 | 15.39% | -0.02% |
| Zeus | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 0.00% |
| WebSTAR | 181 | 1.73% | 180 | 1.72% | +0.01% |
| WebSite | 87 | 0.83% | 86 | 0.82% | +0.01% |
| Other | 1,175 | 11.22% | 1,150 | 10.99% | +0.23% |