June 9, 2004

According to research and analysis firm Netcraft's June Web Server Survey, Apache once again came out way on top, holding 67.22 percent of the Web server market, up from last month's 67.05 percent. The gains represented an increase in aggregate totals from 33,892,817 to 34,710,235.

Microsoft lost ground over the last month, according to Netcraft's data. It fell from 21.48 percent market share to 21.35 percent. The Sun and Zeus platforms also lost some ground over last month. Sun lost 0.04 percent market share while Zeus lost 0.01 percent.

Netcraft's monthly Web server survey measures Web server software usage on all Internet connected computers.

The June 2004 survey received responses from 51,635,284 sites - the second consecutive month the total sample size has topped 50 million. According to Netcraft's data, the Internet has grown 26.1 percent over the past 12 months, adding 10.7 million hostnames since the June 2003 survey.

Netcraft also released the results of its Secure Server Survey. According to its data, more than 300,000 servers are now using third-party SSL certificates. The number of servers using SSL encryption has grown 56.7 percent in the 12-month period from April 2003 to 2004, Netcraft said.

Source: The WHIR