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 8.5 million Web sites responded to the October 2002 survey, down from the more than 9 million responses received in September.
| All Domains (8,490,731) server order is based on global market share | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Server | October Count | October % | September Count | September % | Change |
| Apache | 5,355,038 | 63.07% | 6,037,315 | 66.75% | -3.68% |
| Microsoft | 2,048,519 | 24.13% | 1,974,123 | 21.83% | +2.30% |
| Netscape | 108,454 | 1.28% | 107,183 | 1.18% | +0.10% |
| Zeus | 87,032 | 1.03% | 71,919 | 0.80% | +0.23% |
| WebSTAR | 59,499 | 0.70% | 57,913 | 0.64% | +0.06% |
| WebSite | 32,312 | 0.38% | 32,583 | 0.36% | +0.02% |
| Other | 799,877 | 9.42% | 763,991 | 8.45% | +0.97% |
| Domain Summary | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Domain | Description | Web Servers | Percentage | |
| .com | Commercial | 4,539,335 | 53.46% | |
| .net | Network | 560,758 | 6.60% | |
| .de | Germany | 526,853 | 6.21% | |
| .org | Nonprofit Orgs | 458,405 | 5.40% | |
| .uk | United Kingdom | 291,694 | 3.44% | |
| .edu | Educational | 81,447 | 0.96% | |
| .gov | U.S. Gov’t | 10,850 | 0.13% | |
| 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 | 1,766,815 | 20.81% | ||
| Microsoft-IIS/5.0 | 1,463,269 | 17.23% | ||
| Apache/1.3.22 | 637,140 | 7.50% | ||
| Microsoft-IIS/4.0 | 571,577 | 6.73% | ||
| Apache/1.3.27 | 531,332 | 6.26% | ||
| Roxen/2.2.252 | 422,826 | 4.98% | ||
| Apache | 382,557 | 4.51% | ||
| Apache/1.3.20 | 345,495 | 4.07% | ||
| Apache/1.3.19 | 283,262 | 3.34% | ||
| Apache/1.3.12 | 227,852 | 2.68% | ||
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 4,539,335 servers server order is based on global market share | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Server | October Count | October % | September Count | September % | Change |
| Apache | 2,758,700 | 60.77% | 3,482,805 | 67.12% | -6.35% |
| Microsoft | 1,072,409 | 23.62% | 1,034,691 | 19.94% | +3.68% |
| Netscape | 46,476 | 1.02% | 45,574 | 0.88% | +0.14% |
| Zeus | 40,756 | 0.90% | 38,042 | 0.73% | +0.17% |
| WebSTAR | 31,998 | 0.70% | 31,660 | 0.61% | +0.09% |
| WebSite | 15,885 | 0.35% | 16,056 | 0.31% | +0.04% |
| Other | 573,111 | 12.63% | 539,979 | 10.41% | +2.22% |
| .net (Network) Domains 560,758 servers server order is based on global market share | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Server | October Count | October % | September Count | September % | Change |
| Apache | 434,428 | 77.47% | 440,183 | 78.61% | -1.14% |
| Microsoft | 96,114 | 17.14% | 91,420 | 16.33% | +0.81% |
| Netscape | 4,754 | 0.85% | 4,475 | 0.80% | +0.05% |
| Zeus | 4,745 | 0.85% | 4,297 | 0.77% | +0.08% |
| WebSTAR | 1,526 | 0.27% | 1,502 | 0.27% | 0.00% |
| WebSite | 2,439 | 0.43% | 2,447 | 0.44% | -0.01% |
| Other | 16,752 | 2.99% | 15,631 | 2.79% | +0.20% |
| .de (Germany) Domains 526,853 servers server order is based on global market share | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Server | October Count | October % | September Count | September % | Change |
| Apache | 452,814 | 85.95% | 431,642 | 85.55% | +0.40% |
| Microsoft | 52,502 | 9.97% | 51,334 | 10.17% | -0.20% |
| Netscape | 7,411 | 1.41% | 7,350 | 1.46% | -0.05% |
| Zeus | 1,120 | 0.21% | 1,253 | 0.25% | -0.04% |
| WebSTAR | 1,160 | 0.22% | 1,206 | 0.24% | -0.02% |
| WebSite | 1,195 | 0.23% | 1,283 | 0.25% | -0.02% |
| Other | 10,651 | 2.02% | 10,478 | 2.08% | -0.06% |
| .org (Nonprofit Organizations) Domains 458,405 servers server order is based on global market share | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Server | October Count | October % | September Count | September % | Change |
| Apache | 288,647 | 62.97% | 295,157 | 64.30% | -1.33% |
| Microsoft | 132,930 | 29.00% | 127,595 | 27.80% | +1.20% |
| Netscape | 5,162 | 1.13% | 5,096 | 1.11% | +0.02% |
| Zeus | 4,152 | 0.91% | 3,805 | 0.83% | +0.08% |
| WebSTAR | 3,254 | 0.71% | 3,175 | 0.69% | +0.02% |
| WebSite | 3,616 | 0.79% | 3,625 | 0.79% | 0.00% |
| Other | 20,644 | 4.50% | 20,564 | 4.48% | +0.02% |
| .uk (United Kingdom) Domains 291,694 servers server order is based on global market share | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Server | October Count | October % | September Count | September % | Change |
| Apache | 155,283 | 53.23% | 151,152 | 53.34% | -0.11% |
| Microsoft | 70,644 | 24.22% | 68,509 | 24.18% | +0.04% |
| Netscape | 5,346 | 1.83% | 5,257 | 1.86% | -0.03% |
| Zeus | 25,483 | 8.74% | 14,421 | 5.09% | +3.65% |
| WebSTAR | 746 | 0.26% | 756 | 0.27% | -0.01% |
| WebSite | 699 | 0.24% | 686 | 0.24% | 0.00% |
| Other | 33,493 | 11.48% | 42,579 | 15.03% | -3.55% |
| .edu (Educational) Domains 81,447 servers server order is based on global market share | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Server | October Count | October % | September Count | September % | Change |
| Apache | 41,739 | 51.25% | 40,468 | 51.17% | +0.08% |
| Microsoft | 26,748 | 32.84% | 25,579 | 32.34% | +0.50% |
| Netscape | 3,870 | 4.75% | 3,915 | 4.95% | -0.20% |
| Zeus | 104 | 0.13% | 104 | 0.13% | 0.00% |
| WebSTAR | 2,415 | 2.97% | 2,400 | 3.03% | -0.06% |
| WebSite | 554 | 0.68% | 563 | 0.71% | -0.03% |
| Other | 6,017 | 7.39% | 6,053 | 7.65% | -0.26% |
| .gov (US Government) Domains 10,850 servers server order is based on global market share | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Server | October Count | October % | September Count | September % | Change |
| Apache | 3,986 | 36.74% | 3,856 | 36.58% | +0.16% |
| Microsoft | 3,752 | 34.58% | 3,652 | 34.64% | -0.06% |
| Netscape | 1,652 | 15.23% | 1,619 | 15.36% | -0.13% |
| Zeus | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 0.00% |
| WebSTAR | 184 | 1.70% | 181 | 1.72% | -0.02% |
| WebSite | 85 | 0.78% | 83 | 0.79% | -0.01% |
| Other | 1,191 | 10.98% | 1,151 | 10.92% | +0.06% |