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E-Soft Newsletter
January 1st, 2000
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In this month's news letter:
I. A Perspective on 1999
1) Newest Millionaire on the block - Thawte Founder
2) The Web Server Enhanced Capability Fight
II. Web Server Surveys
1) The Web's Not That Big - Honest!
2) Secure Web Server Market Share Change
3) Web Server Market Share Change
4) Top Web Server Revisions
5) Technology Penetration - Java, JavaScript, etc.
6) Apache Module Report
7) Popularly Referenced Web Sites
III. Company News
1) Security Zone - A New Look
2) Newsletter circulation breaks 1000
3) Advertising Program
IV. Newsletter Sponsorship
V. Subscription / Removal Information
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I. A Perspective on 1999
1) Newest Millionaire on the block - Thawte Founder
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If you haven't already heard, Thawte, the second largest certificate
provider on the net, and one that would have been destined to be the
largest, has agreed to be bought by Verisign for a cool $575 million.
Quoting Mark Shuttleworth, Thawte's owner, founder and CEO,
from a letter on their site, "It's an extraordinary offer from an
extraordinary company, and I'm still trying to come to terms with
its implications for the Thawte team and myself."
Congratulations, Mark and team, for a job well done.
Now let's just hope that the price of certificates will not go up...
2) The Web Server Enhanced Capability Fight
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Earlier on in the year, we predicted that Microsoft and Apache were
going to start beating each other up for market share in the web
server market. Well, there's an interesting battle going on all
right, but if you don't look carefully, you might miss it.
At first glance, not much seems to be going on. In Dec of 1998,
Apache held a 52.53% market share, and Microsoft a 23.53%. Today
that's 55.83% and 26.25%, not much to talk about.
But, what we missed at the start of the year (and have since been
reporting on) is the fact that the real battle is taking place in
extending the web server's capability sets. For Microsoft, that
means Active Server Pages, while for Apache, that means server
side scripting in the form of PHP and Perl.
Now we don't have good numbers for ASP from last year, but if we
take a look at PHP (where we do have the information), we see that
PHP ended last year being installed on 10.08% of Apache servers,
but moved up to 23.85% of all Apache servers one year later. The
nearest Apache competitor is Perl, at 6.46%, moving up from 2.75% a
year ago.
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II. Web Server Surveys
1) The Web's Not That Big - Honest!
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We've been reporting on our Survey now for over a year now and we are
consistently asked about our survey size. It appears that one of our
competitors compiles a survey that shows there are over 9.5 million
sites, while we show 1.9 million. Why the big difference?
Well, the answer is in the methodology. For over a year, E-Soft has
been selective in adding sites to the survey. We will only include
servers that we find referenced on someone else's site. That means
if your site isn't truly on the web (i.e. reachable via another
site), we won't include it. Not only that, but any site included in
the survey that fails to respond to the survey for three consecutive
months, is automatically dropped from our database and not added
again until a new link is found to it.
So, although there may be almost 10 million web sites, by our
estimate almost 80% of them would appear to be "orphans" to which
there are no links.
2) Secure Web Server Market Share Change
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Secure Web Server Survey
December 1999 survey found 59,419 servers
Across All Domains
Market Share Change
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December November Change
Server Count % Count % %
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Stronghold 20334 34.22% 20807 35.28% -1.06%
Apache 18944 31.88% 18377 31.16% +0.72%
Microsoft 11906 20.04% 11623 19.71% +0.33%
Netscape 5301 8.92% 5318 9.02% -0.10%
WebSite 593 1.00% 563 0.95% +0.05%
WebStar 546 0.92% 549 0.93% -0.01%
Other 1795 3.02% 1747 2.96% +0.06%
Visit our Secure Web Survey on-line in "My Security" at
<http://www.e-softinc.com>. With over 300 pages and 200 graphical
images published on line each month, we provide information on
o Popularity of the various protocols (SSLv2, SSLv3, TLSv1)
o Popularity of ciphers (RC2, RC4, DES)
o Popularity of Certificate Authorities
and more. All data is analyzed both world-wide and on a domain
by domain basis, and it's all free.
3) Web Server Market Share Change
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Web Server Survey
December 1999 survey found 1,909,391 servers
Across All Domains
Market Share Change
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December November Change
Server Count % Count % %
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Apache 1068594 55.97% 1059648 55.83% +0.14%
Microsoft 502567 26.32% 498221 26.25% +0.07%
Netscape 101913 5.34% 105921 5.58% -0.24%
WebSite 27044 1.42% 26892 1.42% +0.00%
Stronghold 16413 0.86% 16602 0.87% -0.01%
NCSA 15459 0.81% 16782 0.88% -0.07%
Other 177401 9.29% 173997 9.17% +0.12%
See < http://www.e-softinc.com/survey/data/index.html > for more
information.
4) Top Web Server Revisions
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Dec 1999 Nov 1999 Change
Server Count % Count % %
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Apache 1.3 748,251 39.18% 717,085 37.78% +1.96%
IIS 4.0 433,971 22.73% 425,369 22.41% +0.52%
Apache 1.2 239,911 12.56% 258,279 13.61% -1.23%
IIS 3.0 61,174 3.20% 65,155 3.43% -0.42%
5) Technology Penetration - Java, JavaScript, etc.
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Over the course of December, our survey visited 224,711 sites
and cataloged the usage of a variety of technologies that
were found. Our results translate into an approximate market
share for a variety of server side and client side technologies:
Location Technology Sites Percentage
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Client JavaScript 50,898 22.65%
Client Frames 50,129 22.30%
Client Java 9,531 4.24%
Client IFrames 2,794 1.24%
Server Active Server Pages 21,887 9.74%
Server Cold Fusion 7,320 3.25%
6) Apache Module Report
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The Apache Module report is a breakdown of the popular add-on
modules to the Apache web servers. All percentages shown
are based on an Apache population of 1,068,594 servers in this
month's survey.
Dec 1999 Nov 1999 Growth
Module Count % Count % %
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PHP 252,822 23.85% 245,153 23.34% +2.26%
FrontPage 207,711 19.59% 209,213 19.92% -1.55%
mod_perl 71,089 6.70% 67,886 6.46% +3.84%
mod_ssl 70,190 6.62% 70,521 6.71% -1.30%
Ben-SSL 25,214 2.37% 27,057 2.57% -7.59%
mod_frontpage 22,899 2.16% 22,035 2.09% +3.05%
mod_fastcgi 20,863 1.96% 20,595 1.96% +0.50%
ApacheJServ 16,195 1.52% 14,118 1.34% +13.75%
rus 13,857 1.30% 13,871 1.32% -0.94%
AuthMySQL 13,495 1.27% 13,646 1.29% -1.93%
mod_czech 3,166 0.29% 3,237 0.30% -3.01%
mod_oas 737 0.06% 690 0.06% +3.34%
mod_macro 578 0.05% 604 0.05% +5.92%
mod_throttle 313 0.02% 387 0.03% -19.80%
AuthPostgreSQL 250 0.02% 385 0.03% -35.61%
mod_jserv 124 0.01% 132 0.01% -6.85%
mod_traffic 54 0.00% 54 0.00% -0.01%
Looking for a specific module? Check the module registry at
http://modules.apache.org
7) Popularly Referenced Web Sites
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During the December survey, we visited 224,711 sites,
checking to see what the most popular referred sites are.
We've included here the top 20 referred sites.
Web Site % Referrals
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http://www.microsoft.com 5.53%
http://www.netscape.com 2.71%
http://home.netscape.com 2.50%
http://www.yahoo.com 1.66%
http://www.adobe.com 1.42%
http://www.geocities.com 1.29%
http://www.demon.net 1.09%
http://www.amazon.com 1.06%
http://www.acme.com 1.04%
http://www.homepages.demon.co.uk 1.02%
http://members.aol.com 0.97%
http://www.excite.com 0.93%
http://www.lycos.com 0.85%
http://www.apache.org 0.80%
http://www.macromedia.com 0.74%
http://www.hotbot.com 0.71%
http://www.infoseek.com 0.64%
http://www.real.com 0.58%
http://browserwatch.internet.com 0.56%
http://www.altavista.digital.com 0.56%
See < http://www.e-softinc.com/survey/data/199912/referred.html > for
the complete report.
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IV. Company News
1) Security Zone - A New Look
-----------------------------
For the past several months we've hosted a web page called the
"Security Zone", a simple compilation of resource sites, various
security product vendors, and so on.
The page has been quite popular, and due to this demand, we've
expanded this area of our web site, turning it into a true
on-line security directory.
For security vendors: in most cases we've taken descriptions
directly from your web sites in an attempt to make the product/
service descriptions as relevant as possible to your product.
We encourage you to check the entries however, and suggest
any changes and updates as necessary.
The Security Zone is located at
http://www.e-softinc.com/szone/index.html
2) Newsletter circulation breaks 1000
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In December, our newsletter subscription broke through the 1000
mark, and our subscriber base continues to grow. Thanks to all
who have subscribed, and we hope you find the subscription
interesting. If you have any suggestions for improvements - let
us hear about them. We'll do our best to accommodate them.
3) Advertising Program
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E-Soft now supports industry standard banner ads on its web site,
as well as site sponsorship and newsletter sponsorship. If you
are interested in advertising with E-Soft, check out our
advertising page at http://www.e-softinc.com/static/advertise.html
or contact us at advertising@e-softinc.com
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IV. Newsletter Sponsorship
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this sponsor spot with a company name, URL, and up to 8
lines of text description. For information on rates, please
visit http://www.e-softinc.com/static/advertise.html or
send mail to advertising@e-softinc.com
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V. Subscription/Removal Information
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Marketing Manager E-Soft Inc., http://www.e-softinc.com
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