Internet resources: Over 555 million websites operate on Internet

Internet services company Netcraft has released December 2011 web server survey on the number of websites and personal blogs operating on Internet. In the December 2011 survey the company has received responses from 555 482 744 sites, giving a rise of 29.5 million or 5.6% since last month.

Since this June all major web server vendors have continuously gained hostnames. This month Apache saw, once again, the largest increase of just over 20 million hostnames, which is the largest gain for Apache in five months. The second largest growth was seen by Microsoft, with a gain of 1.2million; however, this still resulted in Microsoft losing market share. Nginx, on the other hand, successfully recovered from its recent loss bringing the web server vendor to another all-time high of 8.85% market share.