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.
Nearly 12 million Web sites responded to the September 2003 survey, exceeding August's peak of 11.5 million sites. Nearly 6 million of those, or 50.04 percent, had .com domains.
All Domains (11,934,124) server order is based on global market share | |||||
Server | September Count | September % | August Count | August % | Change |
Apache | 7,979,368 | 66.86% | 7,705,536 | 66.94% | -0.08% |
Microsoft | 2,853,576 | 23.91% | 2,765,375 | 24.02% | -0.11% |
Netscape | 112,352 | 0.94% | 109,898 | 0.95% | -0.01% |
Zeus | 101,128 | 0.85% | 99,044 | 0.86% | -0.01% |
WebSTAR | 94,442 | 0.79% | 91,315 | 0.79% | 0.00% |
WebSite | 27,543 | 0.23% | 28,979 | 0.25% | -0.02% |
Other | 765,715 | 6.42% | 711,486 | 6.18% | +0.24% |
Domain Summary | |||||
Domain | Description | Web Servers | Percentage | ||
.com | Commercial | 5,971,572 | 50.04% | ||
.net | Network | 856,406 | 7.18% | ||
.de | Germany | 795,894 | 6.67% | ||
.org | Nonprofit Orgs | 660,374 | 5.53% | ||
.uk | United Kingdom | 390,768 | 3.27% | ||
.edu | Educational | 97,232 | 0.81% |
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 | 2,792,655 | 23.40% | ||
Microsoft-IIS/5.0 | 2,283,777 | 19.14% | ||
Apache/1.3.26 | 1,415,533 | 11.86% | ||
Apache | 1,031,716 | 8.65% | ||
Apache/1.3.28 | 628,923 | 5.27% | ||
Microsoft-IIS/4.0 | 445,238 | 3.73% | ||
Apache/1.3.20 | 321,394 | 2.69% | ||
Apache/1.3.22 | 218,346 | 1.83% | ||
Roxen/2.2.252 | 212,988 | 1.78% | ||
Apache/2.0.40 | 162,225 | 1.36% |
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 5,971,572 servers server order is based on global market share | |||||
Server | September Count | September % | August Count | August % | Change |
Apache | 3,846,109 | 64.41% | 3,722,735 | 64.55% | -0.14% |
Microsoft | 1,524,399 | 25.53% | 1,475,996 | 25.59% | -0.06% |
Netscape | 52,494 | 0.88% | 50,688 | 0.88% | 0.00% |
Zeus | 49,103 | 0.82% | 48,151 | 0.83% | -0.01% |
WebSTAR | 49,737 | 0.83% | 48,340 | 0.84% | -0.01% |
WebSite | 13,992 | 0.23% | 14,058 | 0.24% | -0.01% |
Other | 435,738 | 7.30% | 406,961 | 7.06% | +0.24% |
.net (Network) Domains 856,406 servers server order is based on global market share | |||||
Server | September Count | September % | August Count | August % | Change |
Apache | 665,038 | 77.65% | 642,973 | 77.86% | -0.21% |
Microsoft | 152,369 | 17.79% | 146,622 | 17.75% | +0.04% |
Netscape | 6,191 | 0.72% | 5,966 | 0.72% | 0.00% |
Zeus | 5,751 | 0.67% | 5,536 | 0.67% | 0.00% |
WebSTAR | 1,568 | 0.18% | 1,542 | 0.19% | -0.01% |
WebSite | 2,076 | 0.24% | 2,195 | 0.27% | -0.03% |
Other | 23,413 | 2.73% | 20,998 | 2.54% | +0.19% |
.de (Germany) Domains 795,894 servers server order is based on global market share | |||||
Server | September Count | September % | August Count | August % | Change |
Apache | 710,582 | 89.28% | 685,441 | 89.07% | +0.21% |
Microsoft | 61,492 | 7.73% | 60,474 | 7.86% | -0.13% |
Netscape | 8,709 | 1.09% | 8,655 | 1.12% | -0.03% |
Zeus | 1,281 | 0.16% | 1,394 | 0.18% | -0.02% |
WebSTAR | 1,030 | 0.13% | 1,047 | 0.14% | -0.01% |
WebSite | 826 | 0.10% | 878 | 0.11% | -0.01% |
Other | 11,974 | 1.50% | 11,664 | 1.52% | -0.02% |
.org (Nonprofit Organizations) Domains 660,374 servers server order is based on global market share | |||||
Server | September Count | September % | August Count | August % | Change |
Apache | 429,966 | 65.11% | 417,724 | 65.26% | -0.15% |
Microsoft | 188,216 | 28.50% | 183,711 | 28.70% | -0.20% |
Netscape | 5,258 | 0.80% | 5,221 | 0.82% | -0.02% |
Zeus | 5,258 | 0.80% | 5,021 | 0.78% | +0.02% |
WebSTAR | 3,251 | 0.49% | 3,243 | 0.51% | -0.02% |
WebSite | 3,132 | 0.47% | 3,225 | 0.50% | -0.03% |
Other | 25,293 | 3.83% | 21,964 | 3.43% | +0.40% |
.uk (United Kingdom) Domains 390,768 servers server order is based on global market share | |||||
Server | September Count | September % | August Count | August % | Change |
Apache | 226,362 | 57.93% | 217,439 | 57.56% | +0.37% |
Microsoft | 104,388 | 26.71% | 100,598 | 26.63% | +0.08% |
Netscape | 2,081 | 0.53% | 2,083 | 0.55% | -0.02% |
Zeus | 24,196 | 6.19% | 23,820 | 6.31% | -0.12% |
WebSTAR | 697 | 0.18% | 698 | 0.18% | 0.00% |
WebSite | 574 | 0.15% | 582 | 0.15% | 0.00% |
Other | 32,470 | 8.31% | 32,525 | 8.61% | -0.30% |
.edu (Educational) Domains 97,232 servers server order is based on global market share | |||||
Server | September Count | September % | August Count | August % | Change |
Apache | 52,566 | 54.06% | 50,644 | 53.83% | +0.23% |
Microsoft | 32,518 | 33.44% | 31,412 | 33.39% | +0.05% |
Netscape | 3,488 | 3.59% | 3,482 | 3.70% | -0.11% |
Zeus | 36 | 0.04% | 31 | 0.03% | +0.01% |
WebSTAR | 2,032 | 2.09% | 2,037 | 2.17% | -0.08% |
WebSite | 437 | 0.45% | 432 | 0.46% | -0.01% |
Other | 6,155 | 6.33% | 6,037 | 6.42% | -0.09% |