July '07 Servers: Google Up, Apache Down

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The July 2007 Netcraft survey showed continued growth and major shuffling among the Top 5 players. The research firm received responses from 125,626,329 sites, an increase of nearly 12 million from the April survey, which yielded 113,658,468 responses.

The number of sites measured surpassed the 100 million mark set in November 2006 and set yet another record.

In June, Google Front End (GFE) joined lighttpd, Apache, Microsoft IIS and Sun-ONE-Web-Server in the Top 5.

Netcraft began counting GFE sites in June primarily because Google moved its Blogger sites from Apache to GFE. Netcraft attributes much of Apache’s decline in share to this shift.

At the time, Netcraft stated that while it acknowledges “GFE not a server product like Apache or Microsoft-IIS, Google’s services are an increasingly popular alternative platform for running a blog or simple web site (googlepages.com), or content that would have formerly been hosted on a desktop or networked filesystem (e.g. spreadsheets.google.com).”

In contrast to GFE, Apache’s market share continued its descent, hitting 52.65 percent at the end of second quarter. Apache remains in the top spot, but Microsoft again increased its share over the course of the quarter to 32.84 percent.

This month, GFE, Sun, and lighttpd rounded out the Top 5 with 4.35 percent, 1.61 percent and 1.17 percent share, respectively.

Zeus, a longtime member of the Top 5, dipped down to seventh place with 463,449 sites, or 0.37 percent market share.

When viewed by domain type, 73,541,272 responses, or 58.5 percent, had .com domains; 9,375,293, or 7.46 percent, of sites had .net domains; and 3,856,028, or 3.07 percent, of sites had .uk domains.

The complete survey results can be found, here.

July Results
Server	No. of Sites	Market Share	No. of Sites With .com domains
Apache	66,144,734	52.65%	33,199,018
Microsoft-IIS	41,254,793	32.84%	26,823,709
GFE	5,465,538	4.35%	5,441,147
Unknown	2,989,767	2.38%	2,196,338
Sun-ONE-Web-Server	2,017,698	1.61%	1,349,614
lighttpd	1,471,779	1.17%	1,219,378
Oversee	1,162,958	0.93%	994,557
Zeus	463,449	0.37%	149,283
Netscape-Enterprise	225,690	0.18%	109,480
Rapidsite	208,191	0.17%	112,146
tigershark	203,408	0.16%	151,427
thttpd	136,116	0.11%	8,994
Lotus Domino	90,446	0.07%	30,508
AOLServer	84,250	0.07%	3,055
Zope	41,872	0.03%	12,355
WebSTAR	29,331	0.02%	17,997
Squid	22,320	0.02%	3,971
Stronghold	22,259	0.02%	13,352
Oracle-Application-Server-10g	18,795	0.01%	7,851
WebLogic	17,413	0.01%	11,850
4D_WebSTAR_S	10,888	0.01%	5,101
WebSitePro	8,393	0.01%	4,169
WebSite	7,794	0.01%	3,279
Orion	5,890	0.00%	3,808
Xitami	4,330	0.00%	3,095
Sambar	4,214	0.00%	1,699
Roxen WebServer	4,125	0.00%	1,245
Abyss	3,205	0.00%	1,373
Enterprise for NetWare	1,820	0.00%	523
WN	1,331	0.00%	106
Netscape FastTrack Server	1,314	0.00%	534
WebSphere	1,298	0.00%	636
JRun	1,215	0.00%	687
NCSA HTTPd	841	0.00%	199