Netcraft Web Server Stats Challenged

kolchak writes "An article in The Age has an interesting analysis of the Netcraft Web Server Usage Reports. According to Port80 Software, Netcraft's surveys are biased towards domain name parkers and very small web sites, not taking into account how popular a site may be - there's some interesting results in the competing Port80 survey." However, it should be pointed out that Port80 "develops software products to enhance the security, performance and user experience of Microsoft's Internet Information Services (IIS) Web server."

Comments

Re:A bit more than the average MS bias

[SkArcher]

So.... If you are running MS IIS your best security measure is to pretend to be running Apache?

Errrrr.... Just run Apache?

Re:A bit more than the average MS bias

[orthogonal]

So.... If you are running MS IIS your best security measure is to pretend to be running Apache?

No. It's to wave your hands and intone "These are not the servers you're looking for."

It requires the Obi Wan Server Mask, however.

It's just plain wrong.

[Mustang Matt]

I put in my apache/linux server and it said it was running IIS 5.0

Where's Google?

[RT Alec]

I could not help but notice that Google, Yahoo, and Slashdot are omitted from their "top 1000" list. Yet rumors persist that these three web sites get a fair amount of traffic.

we have arived.

[hsidhu]

Microsoft OLE DB Provider for ODBC Drivers error '80040e31'

[Microsoft][ODBC SQL Server Driver]Timeout expired

/includes/Referer.asp, line 7

we live in an era where you can market shades to a blind man, and thats what these folks are doing. leave them alone to make innovative products like ServerMask.

./ effect

[ryanw]

Port80Software has been slashdotted. As of 23:41 MTN Standardtime Nov 26th, 2003.. their box is completely down.

Wonder what they're running ...

Re:Top 1000 companies...

[Waffle Iron]

I've surveyed the web for actual content using similar criteria, giving proportional weight the Fortune 1000. I've been able to conclude that:

• Most websites on the Internet have an annoying Flash intro.
• Most websites on the Internet make you select your country of origin before letting you see the main page.
• Most of the images on the World Wide Web are of small groups of people in business attire with earnest expressions focusing attention on some common problem.
• All websites have an Investor Relations page.
• A significant number of websites will use the Javascript features of your browser to lock you out of their site on the premise that your browser does not support Javascript.

If you have a website and you're not doing these things, then you're not using current best practices. I suggest that everybody upgrade to these universal web standards as soon as they can.

Re:A bit more than the average MS bias

[KozmoStevnNaut]

Of course, for intranets, you would probably want an Obi LAN Server Mask ;)

Yes they are... check this out

[imtheguru]

i tried their header check for www.apache.org [link is here]

Port80 returned this result:
"We detect that www.apache.org is running Apache/2.0.48-dev (Unix)."

But further down the page is this gem:
"No matter what the above results show, this company may be running Microsoft IIS and protecting its Web server identity with ServerMask."

WTF?!

Hey, that's FOUR lines!

[mangu]

So typical of "open sores" zealots...

"EXPERTS CONFIRM: CONFIGURING OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE IS 300% MORE DIFFICULT THAN ORIGINALLY CLAIMED"