December 2003 Netcraft Survey Highlights

Dec 3, 2003
1 minute read

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
ServerNo. of
Servers in Use
Market ShareNo. of Servers
With .com domains
Apache31,005,69067.43%14,053,192
Microsoft-IIS9,596,21620.87%5,252,836
Netscape-Enterprise1,521,6073.31%855,383
Unknown911,2831.98%506,487
Zeus749,7911.63%371,544
Rapidsite422,6700.92%282,063
tigershark255,1140.55%185,220
thttpd223,8870.49%3,300
Lotus Domino87,2310.19%30,428
WebSTAR71,4160.16%39,887
Stronghold37,3700.08%21,500
WebSitePro35,7230.08%19,122
WebSite27,2020.06%15,185
Zope25,6220.06%5,740
WN14,9960.03%2,373
4D_WebSTAR_S11,9960.03%6,022
AOLServer8,5860.02%5,463
Roxen WebServer8,5570.02%4,806
WebLogic8,0640.02%5,394
Enterprise for NetWare7,6610.02%2,133
Orion6,8650.01%4,070
Sambar6,7250.01%2,525
Netscape FastTrack Server6,4480.01%2,523
Xitami4,6050.01%2,433
OmniHTTPd Pro3,7960.01%916
NCSA HTTPd3,0450.01%732
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