Comments on: Netcraft’s April Survey: Google-run Sites Growing Quickly http://gigaom.com/2008/04/15/netcrafts-april-survey-shows-google-run-sites-growing-quickly/ Tracking the Internet Evolution Sun, 07 Sep 2008 05:56:13 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=MU hourly 1 By: ewp http://gigaom.com/2008/04/15/netcrafts-april-survey-shows-google-run-sites-growing-quickly/#comment-872987 ewp Fri, 25 Apr 2008 13:49:24 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=12154#comment-872987 <p>That's an excellent point - this is a survey by domain name, meaning all the Internet SLUDGE out there is still being counted. If 3B domain names are all garbage, and there are only 1B useful websites out there, then these stats are largely useless poop (although it seems google has about 7% of the poop now :)</p> <p>Putting the thinking cap on, it would be much more relevant to overlay traffic TO those sites. IE: if a garbage website gets 2 hits per day, it is normalized to 1% of a site that gets 200 hits per day etc... such that the end numbers really mean "n% of legitimate web traffic is served from servers running X".</p> That’s an excellent point - this is a survey by domain name, meaning all the Internet SLUDGE out there is still being counted. If 3B domain names are all garbage, and there are only 1B useful websites out there, then these stats are largely useless poop (although it seems google has about 7% of the poop now :)

Putting the thinking cap on, it would be much more relevant to overlay traffic TO those sites. IE: if a garbage website gets 2 hits per day, it is normalized to 1% of a site that gets 200 hits per day etc… such that the end numbers really mean “n% of legitimate web traffic is served from servers running X”.

]]> By: Nima Negahban http://gigaom.com/2008/04/15/netcrafts-april-survey-shows-google-run-sites-growing-quickly/#comment-871395 Nima Negahban Wed, 16 Apr 2008 14:17:51 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=12154#comment-871395 <p>@anon</p> <p>In all fairness .NET 3.5 is incredibly powerful and Windows 08/IIS 7 look very promising.</p> <p>But a big reason is that MS gets many registrars to host their 'parked sites' with IIS.</p> @anon

In all fairness .NET 3.5 is incredibly powerful and Windows 08/IIS 7 look very promising.

But a big reason is that MS gets many registrars to host their ‘parked sites’ with IIS.

]]> By: anon http://gigaom.com/2008/04/15/netcrafts-april-survey-shows-google-run-sites-growing-quickly/#comment-871349 anon Wed, 16 Apr 2008 04:50:27 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=12154#comment-871349 <p>Far more interesting is how much Microsoft has closed the gap. Who uses IIS...besides Ebay?</p> Far more interesting is how much Microsoft has closed the gap. Who uses IIS…besides Ebay?

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