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Netcraft Web Server Stats Challenged

Posted by simoniker on from the he-said-she-said dept.

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."

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  1. Re:I tried homepage.apple.com by Maestro4k · · Score: 0, Redundant
    • We detect that homepage.mac.com is running Apache/1.3.27 (Darwin). but with this caveat Note: No matter what the above results show, this company may be running Microsoft IIS and protecting its Web server identity with ServerMask. Nope, no bias there.
    What's truly sad is that most people will probably believe the caveat. Seeing as I just had my (admittedly already quite low) opinion of the general population's intelligence lowered tonight by a particularly amazing display of stupidity, I'm actually quite sure most people (i.e. non-techies) will believe the caveat.

    What brought on this opinion degradation you ask? Oh, just an idiot at Wal-mart who'd put his items out of the cashier's reach on the drink machine besides the register (it butts up to it, one of the express lanes). He asked the cashier if they'd already rung all that up. When told no, that they couldn't reach the stuff. The guy said, and I quote, "Oh, I thought you had one of those belt thingies." I wanted to smack him, it was obvious to even an untrained gerbil there wasn't a belt there. The look the cashier gave the guy was hilarious. It was all I could do to not bust out laughing at the idiot.