Free Software Works: Some numbers of Free Software on the Web

Regarding numbers to show quantitavely ciphers on the Free Software deployment, I would like to focus on those Free Software applications impacting on the Web.

Web Servers Market:

Although on Web Servers Market the leader continues to be Apache, this Web Server seems to be losing market share. Competitors, apart from Google, are increasing their market share, and doing this market to return to be considered as an Unstable Market, taking into account that Apache is again under 60% of the Market Share:

Most Reliable Hosting Site:

In terms of reliability, Hosting Site is a good example of the dominancy of Free Software based Operating Systems. Next table shows that, between the 10 most reliable sites, Linux is used in 5 of them as Operating System. Meanwhile, FreeBSD is used also in other 3 sites:

Rank	Company site	OS	Outage hh:mm:ss	Failed Req%	DNS	Connect	First byte	Total
1	Datapipe	FreeBSD		0.000	0.071	0.018	0.038	0.057
2	Qube Managed Services	Linux	0:00:00	0.007	0.132	0.071	0.142	0.142
3	XILO Communications Ltd.	Linux	0:00:00	0.007	0.331	0.132	0.388	0.668
4	iWeb	Linux	0:00:00	0.010	0.137	0.085	0.171	0.171
5	INetU	Windows Server 2008	0:00:00	0.013	0.092	0.090	0.266	0.535
6	www.logicworks.net	Linux	0:00:00	0.017	0.212	0.089	0.444	0.683
7	Server Intellect	Windows Server 2008	0:00:00	0.017	0.058	0.107	0.215	0.537
8	Multacom	FreeBSD	0:00:00	0.017	0.143	0.117	0.236	0.600
9	ReliableServers.com	Linux	0:00:00	0.020	0.371	0.097	0.200	0.282
10	Swishmail	FreeBSD	0:00:00	0.024	0.127	0.071	0.141	0.285

Meanwhile, if further inspection is done [1], 22 sites out of 37 are based on Linux, and 6 out of 37 are based on FreeBSD. So, in total, among the most reliable hosting sites, 28 out of 37 (75%) are based on FLOSS based Operating Systems.

Web Browser Market:

Web Browser Market Share is not an easy topic, as, depending on the data source, the Market varies significantly.

On the one hand, sources as "StatCounter" show Google Chrome winning the Market to Internet Explorer:

Meanwhile, other sources shows significantly different results. NetMarketShare shows dominancy of Internet Explorer in the Desktop Web Browser Market

Meanwhile, from NetMarketShare studies, Safari is the market leader in Mobile Market:

To end with Web Browser Market Share, a third study, by "Statowl", showing the Market still leaded by Internet Explorer, with Chrome and Firefox closing the three main actors in this Market:

Free Software based CMS:

Last, but not least, an study of the Market Share around CMS based on Free Software, by Water and Stone [2]

This study shows, among many other, the Alexa Top Million CMS usage, based on W3Techs. It can be infered that, Wordpress is CMS Market Leader, with Joomla and Drupal as second and third actors in the Market, but still far from Wordpress: