High-Traffic Web Sites: Server Market Share
A recent slashdot
thread called attention to the value of the long-running netcraft survey of web server
market share. It also brought up a survey of
investor-information servers at fortune 500 companies,
conducted by ENT
magazine.
That made me curious what the web server of choice is among the top
100-1,000 web sites as ranked by traffic, to answer the
question What web server software is used to answer front-door
requests by the busiest sites on the web? There are lots of lists
available that rank sites by traffic, I picked three popular rankings
(July 13, 2000) and sent an http head request to each high traffic
site, then ran the Server: headers through webalizer.
The resulting breakdown of web server use on high-traffic sites is
pretty interesting, presented in the three tables below, with links to
the sites that provided the traffic rankings.
NB: Not every site returned a
Server: header, so total number of servers will be short
in each list. Name variations for Netscape, Apache, Microsoft, and
Zeus web servers are combined, the others are exact strings.
|
| 1 |
459 |
49.73% |
Apache |
| 2 |
218 |
23.62% |
Microsoft |
| 3 |
185 |
20.04% |
Netscape |
| 4 |
16 |
1.73% |
zeus |
| 5 |
5 |
0.54% |
Binary file (standard input) matches |
| 6 |
3 |
0.33% |
AOLserver/3.0 |
| 7 |
2 |
0.22% |
AV/1.0.1 |
| 8 |
2 |
0.22% |
JavaWebServer/1.1.1 |
| 9 |
2 |
0.22% |
Oracle_Web_Listener/4.0.8.1.0EnterpriseEdition |
| 10 |
1 |
0.11% |
Cisco Systems/1.4.1 (Unix) |
| 11 |
1 |
0.11% |
Domino-Go-Webserver/4.6.2.5 |
| 12 |
1 |
0.11% |
Etoys Web server 1.2 |
| 13 |
1 |
0.11% |
GWS/1.9 |
| 14 |
1 |
0.11% |
HydraWEB 1.0FCS |
| 15 |
1 |
0.11% |
IBM-Planetwide/10.45 Domino-Go-Webserver/4.6 |
| 16 |
1 |
0.11% |
JavaWebServer/1.1 |
| 17 |
1 |
0.11% |
MHttpd/3.2 (UAI; i686-linux; Meta-HTML/6.08) |
| 18 |
1 |
0.11% |
Mathopd/1.3pl4 |
| 19 |
1 |
0.11% |
Mediasurface/2.0 |
| 20 |
1 |
0.11% |
NCSA/1.5.2 |
| 21 |
1 |
0.11% |
NaviServer/2.0 AOLserver/2.3.3 |
| 22 |
1 |
0.11% |
Ootle_Server/1.0 |
| 23 |
1 |
0.11% |
Open-Market-Secure-WebServer(Global)/2.0.10.RC0 |
| 24 |
1 |
0.11% |
Open-Market-Secure-WebServer/V2.1. |
| 25 |
1 |
0.11% |
Oracle_Web_Listener/4.0.7.1.0EnterpriseEdition |
| 26 |
1 |
0.11% |
Oracle_Web_listener2.1/1.20in2 |
| 27 |
1 |
0.11% |
Oracle_Web_listener3.0.2.0.0/2.14FC1 |
| 28 |
1 |
0.11% |
RSMV/1.2.4 (Unix) |
| 29 |
1 |
0.11% |
This |
| 30 |
1 |
0.11% |
Unknown/0.0.0 |
| 31 |
1 |
0.11% |
WWW |
| 32 |
1 |
0.11% |
WebLogic 4.5.1 Service Pack 9 05/24/2000 07 |
| 33 |
1 |
0.11% |
WebSTAR/4.2 ID/70009 |
| 34 |
1 |
0.11% |
WebSTAR/4.2 ID/70636 |
| 35 |
1 |
0.11% |
WebSpective Interceptor 3.0 |
| 36 |
1 |
0.11% |
thttpd/2.16 29feb00 |
| 37 |
1 |
0.11% |
tigershark/0.9.9-S |
| 38 |
1 |
0.11% |
tigershark/0.9.9-SS |
| 39 |
1 |
0.11% |
txshttpd/1.0 ThreadedDBL/1.0 |
|
| 1 |
187 |
37.78% |
Apache |
| 2 |
135 |
27.27% |
Microsoft |
| 3 |
124 |
25.05% |
Netscape |
| 4 |
2 |
0.40% |
AOLserver/3.0 |
| 5 |
2 |
0.40% |
zeus |
| 6 |
1 |
0.20% |
AV/1.0.1 |
| 7 |
1 |
0.20% |
Binary file (standard input) matches |
| 8 |
1 |
0.20% |
Commerce-Builder/2.10 (Win32; ix86; S) Commerce-Builder/2.10 |
| 9 |
1 |
0.20% |
Etoys Web server 1.2 |
| 10 |
1 |
0.20% |
GWS/1.9 |
| 11 |
1 |
0.20% |
HydraWEB 1.0FCS |
| 12 |
1 |
0.20% |
IBM-Planetwide/10.45 Domino-Go-Webserver/4.6 |
| 13 |
1 |
0.20% |
JavaWebServer/1.1.1 |
| 14 |
1 |
0.20% |
Mathopd/1.3pl4 |
| 15 |
1 |
0.20% |
Mediasurface/2.0 |
| 16 |
1 |
0.20% |
NaviServer/2.0 AOLserver/2.3.3 |
| 17 |
1 |
0.20% |
Open-Market-Secure-WebServer/V2.1. |
| 18 |
1 |
0.20% |
Oracle_Web_listener3.0.2.0.0/2.14FC1 |
| 19 |
1 |
0.20% |
ROXEN |
| 20 |
1 |
0.20% |
Rapidsite/Apa-1.3.4 FrontPage |
| 21 |
1 |
0.20% |
Respond.com/2.5 |
| 22 |
1 |
0.20% |
WebSTAR/4.2 ID/70636 |
| 23 |
1 |
0.20% |
WebSitePro/2.4.9 |
| 24 |
1 |
0.20% |
WebSpective Interceptor 3.0 |
|
| 1 |
44 |
48.35% |
apache |
| 2 |
20 |
21.98% |
microsoft iis |
| 3 |
16 |
17.58% |
netscape |
| 4 |
1 |
1.10% |
AV/1.0.1 |
| 5 |
1 |
1.10% |
GWS/1.9 |
| 6 |
1 |
1.10% |
IBM-Planetwide/10.45 Domino-Go-Webserver/4.6 |
| 7 |
1 |
1.10% |
JavaWebServer/1.1.1 |
| 8 |
1 |
1.10% |
Mediasurface/2.0 |
| 9 |
1 |
1.10% |
NaviServer/2.0 AOLserver/2.3.3 |
| 10 |
1 |
1.10% |
Open-Market-Secure-WebServer/V2.1. |
| 11 |
1 |
1.10% |
ROXEN |
| 12 |
1 |
1.10% |
WW |
| 13 |
1 |
1.10% |
WebSitePro/2.4.9 |
| 14 |
1 |
1.10% |
zeus |
|