Preliminary Results of HTTP Survey



The first round of results for 1,538,462 randomly chosen numerical IP's to find 4,000 with HTTP servers or server clusters in the global class A, B, and C. Of course, multiple machines may be behind one address, but we just record whatever the http response says:

Server Percentage
Apache 43.2%
Microsoft IIS 30.5 %
Netscape 9.75 %
ZyXEL 6.5 %
RapidSite 2.4%
WindWeb 1.7 %
Allegro 1.3%



OS Type Percentage
Microsoft 31.9 %
Unix 68.1 %



8.0 % of the "Unix" type OS specifically identified themselves as Linux; 0.7 % were Darwin; the FreeBSD/OpenBSD/NetBSD machines usually just identify themselves as (Unix)

Distribution Count Percentage of Linux
Red Hat 212 66.7%
Debian 59 18.6 %
SuSe 39 12.3 %
Mandrake 8 2.5%



Of the machines that gave the modules or languages loaded, here are counts for different modules (note a machine might run more than one):

module count
php 878
perl 417
python 48
asp 14
ruby 1



597 machines reported FrontPage




Ralph Siegler 08 May 2003 23:10:34 admail [AT] rsiegler.org