By Anastasia Tubanos, theWHIR.com
May 30, 2008 — (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Web analytics firm Netcraft (netcraft.com) announced Friday that it had released its Web Server Survey for May 2008, saying it had received responses from 168,408,112 websites for the May survey.
Netcraft says it has seen about 2.7 million new websites since April. The common-sense observation seems to be that the rate of growth has decreased somewhat over the past few months, with April having seen 3.1 million new sites and March providing 4.5 million new sites.
Of the 2.7 million additional websites in May, Netcraft says 554,000 of them are being hosted by Dutch hosting provider XL Internet Services while around 531,000 of them are being associated with content delivery network operator Akamai. This is a bit of a change of pace from the last couple of months where most of the growth was found among blogs and social networks like Google’s Blogger service and MySpace.
Netcraft also says the GNR web server, which is operated by the Global Name Registry, has climbed to 15th place after gaining 212,000 sites this month. Global Name Registry is the license operator of the .name top-level domain, which was launched in 2002.
According to Netcraft, nearly all the .name sites being hosted by Global Name Registry – a majority of which use the format www.firstname.lastname.name – are served from the same IP address and many of them use “a frameset to present content from Facebook’s website, showing limited public profiles for Facebook users with the same name.”
Earlier this month, Netcraft called NaviSite the most reliable hosting company website for April 2008.
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