On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 3:53 PM, Mark Waser wrote: > No. You are not correct. Read their methodology > (http://www.securityspace.com/s_survey/faq.html?mondir=/200804&domdir=&domain=) > which I have copied and pasted below > >>>> We visit what we consider well-known sites. In our case, we define a >>>> well-known site as a site that had a link to it from at least one other >>>> site >>>> that we consider well-known. So, if we are visiting you, it means we know >>>> about you through a link from another site. > >>>> If a site stops responding to our request for 3 consecutive months, we >>>> automatically remove it from the survey. In this fashion, our list of known >>>> servers remains up to date. > >>>> Because of this technique, we find that we actually only visit about 10% >>>> of the web sites out on the web. This is because approximately 90% of all >>>> web sites are "fringe" sites, such as domain squatters, personal web sites, >>>> etc., that are considered unimportant by the rest of the web community >>>> (because no-one considers them important enough to link to.) > >
That's fine by me. They are trying to survey the web servers that are actually *used* on the internet. Ignoring millions of parked domains on IIS servers run by some major registrars. Their overall figure of 73% for Apache and 19% for Microsoft IIS sounds reasonable to me. As J. Andrew Rogers said, Apache is probably a larger % than this in Silicon Valley. BillK ------------------------------------------- agi Archives: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/ Modify Your Subscription: http://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=8660244&id_secret=103754539-40ed26 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
