In the October 2005 survey we received responses from 74,409,971 sites, an increase of 2.68 million sites from the September survey. The large gain makes 2005 the strongest year ever for Internet growth, as the web has added 17.5 million sites, easily surpassing the previous annual mark of 16 million during the height of the dot-com boom in 2000.



This month also saw movement in web server market share for the first time in many months, with Windows servers gaining 0.75 percent market share in active sites, while Apache's share fell by 0.67 percent. Apache continues to maintain a large lead in both active sites and hostnames, and in fact improved its share by 0.74 percent in hostnames. With this month's growth, Apache now powers more than 50 million sites.

Total Sites Across All Domains August 1995 - October 2005

Market Share for Top Servers Across All Domains August 1995 - October 2005

Top Developers Developer September 2005 Percent October 2005 Percent Change Apache 49598424 69.15 52005811 69.89 0.74 Microsoft 14601553 20.36 15293030 20.55 0.19 Sun 1868891 2.61 1889989 2.54 -0.07 Zeus 584598 0.82 585972 0.79 -0.03 Active Sites Developer September 2005 Percent October 2005 Percent Change Apache 22518078 69.91 23270873 69.24 -0.67 Microsoft 7315449 22.71 7883664 23.46 0.75 Zeus 224619 0.70 217451 0.65 -0.05 Sun 216165 0.67 203349 0.61 -0.06

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