February 2004 Security Space Survey Results

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.

Slightly more than 14 million Web sites responded to the February 2004 survey, exceeding January’s peak of 13.7 million sites. More than 6.8 million of those, or 48.8 percent, had .com domains.










































All Domains (14,007,566)

server order is based on global market share
Server February
Count
February % January
Count
January % Change
Apache 9,868,332 70.45% 9,552,557 69.79% +0.66%
Microsoft 3,172,166 22.65% 3,055,344 22.32% +0.33%
Netscape 132,355 0.94% 131,392 0.96% -0.02%
Zeus 109,445 0.78% 106,141 0.78% 0.00%
WebSTAR 63,246 0.45% 57,475 0.42% +0.03%
WebSite 25,276 0.18% 25,811 0.19% -0.01%
Other 636,746 4.55% 758,207 5.54% -0.99%























Domain Summary

Domain Description Web Servers Percentage
.com Commercial   6,840,814 48.84%
.net Network  1,037,393 7.41%
.de Germany  938,515 6.70%
.org Nonprofit Orgs  748,876 5.35%
.kr South Korea  452,175 3.23%
.uk United Kingdom  425,453 3.04%
.edu Educational  103,017 0.74%


































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 2,718,560 19.41%
Microsoft-IIS/5.0 2,446,306 17.46%
Apache 1,488,213 10.62%
Apache/1.3.29 1,475,018 10.53%
Apache/1.3.26 1,270,754 9.07%
Apache/1.3.28 675,179 4.82%
Microsoft-IIS/4.0 377,008 2.69%
Microsoft-IIS/6.0 328,4712.34%
Apache/1.3.20 312,376 2.23%
Apache/2.0.40 283,603 2.02%

>> Detailed Breakdown

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
   6,840,814 servers

server order is based on global market share
Server February
Count
February % January
Count
January % Change
Apache 4,709,160 68.84% 4,558,274 67.54% +1.30%
Microsoft 1,694,252 24.77% 1,634,542 24.22% +0.55%
Netscape 68,264 1.00% 67,359 1.00% 0.00%
Zeus 51,056 0.75% 49,719 0.74% +0.01%
WebSTAR 27,498 0.40% 22,926 0.34% +0.06%
WebSite 12,399 0.18% 12,721 0.19% -0.01%
Other 278,185 4.07% 403,174 5.97% -1.90%










































.net (Network) Domains
   1,037,393 servers

server order is based on global market share
Server February
Count
February % January
Count
January % Change
Apache 812,217 78.29% 777,099 78.86% -0.57%
Microsoft 184,616 17.80% 169,908 17.24% +0.56%
Netscape 7,932 0.76% 7,746 0.79% -0.03%
Zeus 8,597 0.83% 7,923 0.80% +0.03%
WebSTAR 1,462 0.14% 1,489 0.15% -0.01%
WebSite 1,936 0.19% 1,973 0.20% -0.01%
Other 20,633 1.99% 19,305 1.96% +0.03%










































.de (Germany) Domains
   938,515 servers

server order is based on global market share
Server February
Count
February % January
Count
January % Change
Apache 837,294 89.21% 809,480 89.11% +0.10%
Microsoft 72,669 7.74% 72,159 7.94% -0.20%
Netscape 8,776 0.94% 8,833 0.97% -0.03%
Zeus 2,638 0.28% 2,206 0.24% +0.04%
WebSTAR 908 0.10% 923 0.10% 0.00%
WebSite 757 0.08% 753 0.08% 0.00%
Other 15,473 1.65% 14,058 1.55% +0.10%










































.org (Nonprofit Organizations) Domains
   748,876 servers

server order is based on global market share
Server February
Count
February % January
Count
January % Change
Apache 504,202 67.33% 490,765 67.47% -0.14%
Microsoft 201,970 26.97% 194,020 26.68% +0.29%
Netscape 8,023 1.07% 7,933 1.09% -0.02%
Zeus 5,344 0.71% 5,237 0.72% -0.01%
WebSTAR 3,091 0.41% 3,173 0.44% -0.03%
WebSite 3,740 0.50% 3,763 0.52% -0.02%
Other 22,506 3.01% 22,439 3.09% -0.08%










































.uk (United Kingdom) Domains
   425,453 servers

server order is based on global market share
Server February
Count
February % January
Count
January % Change
Apache 252,438 59.33% 244,401 58.93% +0.40%
Microsoft 111,724 26.26% 109,767 26.47% -0.21%
Netscape 2,059 0.48% 1,997 0.48% 0.00%
Zeus 25,887 6.08% 25,527 6.15% -0.07%
WebSTAR 615 0.14% 600 0.14% 0.00%
WebSite 545 0.13% 539 0.13% 0.00%
Other 32,185 7.56% 31,915 7.70% -0.14%










































.edu (Educational) Domains
   103,017 servers

server order is based on global market share
Server February
Count
February % January
Count
January % Change
Apache 56,927 55.26% 55,635 54.90% +0.36%
Microsoft 34,260 33.26% 33,809 33.36% -0.10%
Netscape 3,278 3.18% 3,340 3.30% -0.12%
Zeus 62 0.06% 62 0.06% 0.00%
WebSTAR 1,882 1.83% 1,936 1.91% -0.08%
WebSite 390 0.38% 388 0.38% 0.00%
Other 6,218 6.04% 6,161 6.08% -0.04%

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