A chart shows the totals for active sites across all domains
(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Web analytics firm Netcraft (www.netcraft.com) announced on Friday that it has seen a large increase the number of sites found by its Web Server Survey.
According to the report, Netcraft’s August 2011 Web Server Survey received responses from 463,000,317 sites. In July, that number was 357,292,065.
Netcraft says there were particularly large increases in the number of sites hosted by SoftLayer, AmeriNOC, China Telecom as well as Tumblr, Skyrock and Hyves.
Amazon showed substantial growth as well, according to the report, and now hosts several million EC2 sites.
According to Netcraft, despite the large increase in sites, the market share of different server software changed very little. Of the top leading web servers, nginx gained share this month, and Apache, Microsoft and Google showed small losses.
In August, Apache had 65 percent of the market share across all domains, Microsoft had 15.86 percent, ngnix had 7.67 percent and Google had 3.68 percent.
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