Top 15 Million Technology Observations

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  • excerpt: Top 15 Million Server Technology Observations.
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  • reading time: 2 minutes
  • tag: Data
  • authors: JC

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This isn't a justification of why the lookup is being performed, It's just that this technology is seen (take what you will from that)

Overall Observations

  • nginx dominates the landscape significantly.
  • There is a high diversity in the types of web servers used, with over 100 different types listed.
  • The presence of CDNs, security-focused servers (e.g., Cloudflare, Firewall), and cloud services (e.g., AWS, Microsoft Azure) shows a mix of traditional, modern, and specialized web server technologies, This doesn't express why the lookups are happening but just that they've been seen from these technologies.

Observations on Top Ten

  • nginx leads significantly with 39,184 occurrences, more than double the next server, Beaver.
  • Beaver and Apache are the next most frequent, showing substantial use but still far behind nginx.
  • AkamaiGHost has a notable presence as a content delivery network (CDN) server.
  • The distribution shows a sharp drop-off after the top three servers.

Observations on Top Fifty

  • Beyond the top ten, the frequency of occurrences drops significantly.
  • CDN services like CloudFront and awselb show up, indicating a diverse use of web server technologies.
  • Microsoft services (IIS, HTTPAPI, Azure) appear multiple times, highlighting their widespread adoption.
  • Lesser-known or possibly more niche servers like ADM and LegoServer also have significant usage.
  • There's an entry marked as empty, suggesting possible data entry issues or unclassified server identification.

Top 10 & Top 50 Server Technologies

Rank Server Volume Rank Server Volume
1 nginx 39184 1 nginx 39184
2 Beaver 26785 2 Beaver 26785
3 Apache 22303 3 Apache 22303
4 AkamaiGHost 9336 4 AkamaiGHost 9336
5 ADM 7211 5 ADM 7211
6 LegoServer 5478 6 LegoServer 5478
7 Microsoft-IIS 4677 7 Microsoft-IIS 4677
8 Microsoft-HTTPAPI 3967 8 Microsoft-HTTPAPI 3967
9 Tengine 2970 9 Tengine 2970
10 Varnish 2206 10 Varnish 2206
11 awselb 2094
12 LiteSpeed 1635
13 openresty 821
14 Apache-Coyote 744
15 ldweb 410
16 cloudflare 378
17 Firewall 334
18 Caddy 274
19 (empty) 222
20 Longyiwww.appbeian.com 211
21 DNSPodURLV2.0 199
22 squid 187
23 F-WEB 157
24 CUSG_Web 145
25 micro_httpd 126
26 CloudFront 114
27 Knipp-Webredirector 108
28 AliyunOSS 98
29 Ningtron 86
30 GitHub.com 81
31 BigIP 57
32 Microsoft-Azure-Application-Gateway 50
33 wts 35
34 EIMSWebServer 31
35 ATS 30
36 SLT 29
37 IIS 26
38 httpd 24
39 kangle 23
40 MikrotikHttpProxy 16
41 stgw 15
42 o2switch-PowerBoost-v3 15
43 IBM-PROXY-WTE 15
44 Vortex 14
45 OPLON-ADC 14
46 Undefined 13
47 Squarespace 13
48 gaosudu 12
49 YxlinkWAF 12
50 Wwebsvr 12

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