[PHP-DEV] Time to Update Usage Stats [Fwd: E-Soft Newsletter Jan. 2000] From: Eli Marmor (marmor <email protected>)
Date: 01/03/00

PHP popularity is up again! PHP ruled not only the last millenium,
but also the new one! (OK, OK, I know that the real end of the
millenium is Dec. 31 2000...).

In addition, E-Soft speaks about PHP as the secret weapon of Apache
against Microsoft/IIS/ASP.

It's time to update the usage stats at php.net (although I don't
know the stats of NetCraft - they are not linked from their site.
Is there a "secret" URL where these stats can be found in NetCraft
site before seeing them at http://php.net/usage.php3 ?)

P.S. If you still use 14.4 modem and spent some seconds to pop
this message, I apologize... 

-- 
Eli Marmor

attached mail follows:

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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 ---------------------------------------------------

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 -------------------------------------------

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.

==================================================================== II. Web Server Surveys

1) The Web's Not That Big - Honest! -----------------------------------

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 ----------------------------------------

Secure Web Server Survey December 1999 survey found 59,419 servers Across All Domains

Market Share Change ------------------- December November Change Server Count % Count % % ------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 ---------------------------------

Web Server Survey December 1999 survey found 1,909,391 servers Across All Domains

Market Share Change ------------------- December November Change Server Count % Count % % ------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 ---------------------------

Dec 1999 Nov 1999 Change Server Count % Count % % ------------------------------------------------------------ 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. --------------------------------------------------

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 --------------------------------------------------- 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 -----------------------

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 % % ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ---------------------------------

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 --------------------------------------------------- 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.

==================================================================== 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 ------------------------------------- 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 ---------------------- 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 <email protected>

==================================================================== IV. Newsletter Sponsorship

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==================================================================== V. Subscription/Removal Information

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