July 12, 2007 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Web analytics firm Netcraft (netcraft.com) announced the results of its July 2007 survey, which received responses from 125,626,329 sites, an increase of 3.62 million sites from the June survey.
Recent trends were consistent this month, with the Internet's strong growth continuing apace and Microsoft making additional inroads into Apache's leadership in web server market share. The Web has grown by 20.4 million sites this year, trailing the growth rate from 2006, when the survey added an astonishing 30.9 million sites.
Microsoft adds 2.4 million sites this month, bringing the total number of Windows servers-run sites over 40 million, and boosting Microsoft's market share from 1.01 percent to 32.8 percent. The open source Apache server has increased by 556k, and has slightly decreased by 1.11 percent to 52.65 percent. Meanwhile, Google gains 592k sites with a 4.35 percent market share.
In active sites, Apache is now at 49.98 percent share, less than 14.5 percent ahead of Microsoft. While that's still a considerable lead, Apache had a 33.4 percent advantage at this time last July, meaning Microsoft has cut its deficit in half in the past 12 months.
Sun is the sum of sites running SunONE, iPlanet-Enterprise, Netscape-Enterprise, Netscape-FastTrack, Netscape-Commerce, Netscape-Communications, Netsite-Commerce & Netsite-Communications. Microsoft is the sum of sites running Microsoft-Internet-Information-Server, Microsoft-IIS, Microsoft-IIS-W, Microsoft-PWS-95, & Microsoft-PWS.
