May 2008 Web Server Survey

In the May 2008 survey we received responses from 168,408,112 sites.

The total number of sites has increased by 2.7 million, with 554 thousand new sites being hosted by the Dutch company XL Internet Services . Similar growth is seen at Akamai , a web content and application delivery company, where 531 thousand new sites have appeared.

The GNR web server climbs to 15th place after gaining 212 thousand sites this month. GNR is operated by Global Name Registry , which is the licence operator of the .name global top level domain that was launched in 2002. The .name gTLD is intended to be used by individuals, and most of the site addresses being served by the GNR web server use the format www.firstname.lastname .name.

Nearly all of the .name sites being hosted by Global Name Registry are served from the same IP address, and many of them use a frameset to present content from Facebook 's website, showing limited public profiles for Facebook users with the same name.

 

Total Sites Across All Domains August 1995 - May 2008

 

Market Share for Top Servers Across All Domains August 1995 - May 2008

 

Top Developers

Developer	April 2008	Percent	May 2008	Percent	Change
Apache	83,554,638	50.42%	83,746,837	49.73%	-0.69
Microsoft	58,547,355	35.33%	58,991,106	35.03%	-0.30
Google	10,079,333	6.08%	10,127,956	6.01%	-0.07
lighttpd	1,495,308	0.90%	1,523,148	0.90%	0.00
Sun	547,873	0.33%	545,651	0.32%	-0.01

Active Sites

Developer	April 2008	Percent	May 2008	Percent	Change
Apache	33,463,198	49.41%	32,839,213	48.04%	-1.37
Microsoft	23,272,840	34.37%	24,040,260	35.17%	0.80
Google	6,347,034	9.37%	6,592,598	9.64%	0.27
Sun	183,992	0.27%	173,679	0.25%	-0.02
lighttpd	76,653	0.11%	92,041	0.13%	0.02

Totals for Active Servers Across All Domains
June 2000 - May 2008

Vendor	Product	Web Sites
Apache	Apache	83,428,212
Microsoft	IIS	58,983,431
Google	GFE	10,124,476
Unknown	Unknown	4,802,679
Oversee	Oversee	2,004,303
lighttpd	lighttpd	1,523,148
Other	Other	1,118,374
nginx	nginx	1,013,118
LiteSpeed	LiteSpeed	733,212
Zeus	Zeus	412,040