Internet Statistics

[Lisa]

I am playing around with some Internet Statistics and here is what I have come up with. I noticed that lots of surveys count all domains powered by a technology, but I think counting distinct hosts is a better statistic. Am I wrong? What is more meaningful?

1,067,331 distinct IPs running IIS
1,721,118 distinct IPs running Apache
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1,005,929 distinct IPs running PHP

3,255,235 websites running IIS
5,698,129 websites running Apache
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3,744,192 websites running PHP

* Large Parking Servers with thousands of domains have been eliminated from this survey.
** COM, NET, ORG, INFO, BIZ, US only counted

The reason for eliminating parking servers are because people like Network Solutions and eNom operate servers that host millions of domains all on the same server.

[john316]

>>but I think counting distinct hosts is a better statistic<<

By distinct host, are you trying to discount virtual hosting? If so, the numbers won't reflect webmaster preferences.