The Netcraft Web Server Survey is a
survey of Web Server software usage on the Internet. Netcraft received responses to its
September 2002 survey from 35,756,436 sites. This is a yet another dip from June’s peak of 38.8 million sites and August’s previous low of nearly 36 million sites.
Not surprisingly, Apache, Microsoft, Zeus, and iPlanet remained the key players with shares of 59.91 percent, 29.18 percent, 2.08 percent, and 1.36 percent, respectively. The top vendors also retained their ranking from the previous month, although Apache lost 3.6 percent of its market share and Microsoft gained 3.79 percent. Zeus and iPlanet essentially remained flat.
NT-specific servers accounted for 29.42 percent, an increase from the previous month’s 25.64 percent. Apache-specific servers accounted for 61.50 percent, a decrease from August’s 65.14 percent. Macintosh-specific servers remained flat at 0.33 percent.
Of the servers surveyed, 16,801,016, or 46.99 percent, had .com domains.
| September Results | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Server | No. of Servers in Use | Market Share | No. of Servers With .com domains |
| Apache | 21,421,748 | 59.91% | 8,839,491 |
| Microsoft-IIS | 10,432,434 | 29.18% | 6,070,375 |
| Zeus | 742,740 | 2.08% | 386,993 |
| Unknown | 505,058 | 1.41% | 260,562 |
| Netscape-Enterprise | 470,645 | 1.32% | 206,873 |
| Rapidsite | 415,433 | 1.16% | 285,034 |
| thttpd | 332,767 | 0.93% | 2,242 |
| tigershark | 263,566 | 0.74% | 193,421 |
| WebSTAR | 104,793 | 0.29% | 57,236 |
| Lotus Domino | 76,074 | 0.21% | 28,847 |
| WebSitePro | 57,709 | 0.16% | 31,698 |
| Stronghold | 49,864 | 0.14% | 32,502 |
| WebSite | 27,963 | 0.08% | 15,997 |
| WN | 22,279 | 0.06% | 4,319 |
| SilverStream | 14,643 | 0.04% | 1,621 |
| Netscape FastTrack Server | 11,031 | 0.03% | 4,402 |
| Zope | 9,902 | 0.03% | 3,055 |
| Enterprise for NetWare | 8,422 | 0.02% | 2,450 |
| Roxen WebServer | 7,636 | 0.02% | 3,651 |
| Sambar | 7,236 | 0.02% | 3,626 |
| AOLServer | 6,259 | 0.02% | 3,946 |
| Orion | 5,440 | 0.02% | 3,623 |
| Xitami | 4,999 | 0.01% | 2,980 |
| NCSA HTTPd | 4,872 | 0.01% | 1,157 |
| WebLogic | 4,855 | 0.01% | 3,555 |
| OmniHTTPd Pro | 3,551 | 0.01% | 1,024 |
| 4D_WebSTAR_S | 2,727 | 0.01% | 1,282 |
| SimpleServer:WWW | 383 | 0.00% | 199 |
| Personal Web Server | 262 | 0.00% | 49 |
| Savant | 222 | 0.00% | 106 |
| Tcl Web Server | 89 | 0.00% | 43 |
| Jigsaw | 75 | 0.00% | 23 |
| vqServer | 65 | 0.00% | 35 |
| GoAhead | 42 | 0.00% | 22 |
| ZBServer | 34 | 0.00% | 10 |