May 3, 2004 : Netcraft Survey Finds 50 Million Sites
📅 - UK-based research and analysis firm Netcraft (netcraft.com) announced on Monday that its May Web server survey featured for the first time, results based on an aggregate pool of over 50 million Web sites. Last month, Necraft's survey measured 49,750,568 sites. This month, that number climbed to 50,550,965, the sixteenth consecutive month the survey's sample size has grown.
According to the results of the May survey, Apache regained 0.06 percent of its market share running on a total of 33,892,817 sites. The number of sites running Microsoft remained largely unchanged, dropping 0.01 percent from 21.49 percent to 21.48 percent. The corresponding aggregate totals were 10,691,683 and 10,858,168 respectively. SunOne and Zeus also lost market share last month, losing 0.09 and 0.04 percent. Netcraft's monthly Web server survey measures Web server software usage on all Internet connected computers.
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