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August Netcraft Results - Apache up 6%, MS IIS down 6%

Posted by krow on from the the-see-saw-olympics dept.

An Onimous Cow Herd writes "Augusts Netcraft Web survey results are now out. This month's results show a dramatic upsurge of nearly 6% for Apache and a corresponding drop for MS IIS! At this point, Apache's decline has dramatically reversed, regaining the ground it lost to IIS starting mid-2001 and currently Apache's market share stands the highest since Netscraft started their monthly surveys."

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  1. Ah... look again by stonewolf · · Score: 5, Insightful

    If you look down the page for the number of active websites instead of the number of total websites you see that Apache gained 1.43% and IIS lost 0.51%

    There is a lot of difference between active sites and "parked" inactive sites. On the netcraft site you can find a good discussion of the difference between total sites and active sites.

    The 6% swing seems to be the result of some major web parking sites switching to Apache.

    I love to see open source advance, but we need to be as honest as possible in selecting statistics to present.

    Stonewolf