We provide unique internet statistics to help your business
Netcraft has explored the internet since 1995 and is an authority on the market share of web servers, operating systems, hosting providers, ISPs, Certificate Authorities, e-commerce, scripting languages and content technologies
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Use Cases
The internet research we collect allows you to make informed decisions about sales, marketing, expansion and investment in the hosting, CA and web technology marketplaces.
Internet Data
Using our unique methodologies we’ve been collecting internet data since 1995, allowing for long term trends to be observed and analysis to be generated.
Interactive Datasets
Interact with the data through our web portal. Drilldown and filter results in a variety of ways including by country, TLD and popularity. Visualise as a table or chart, or export to integrate into your data analysis workflow.
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See growth over time
See how hosting companies, certificate authorities and technologies have grown; identify those which have performed the best in absolute or percentage terms as far back as 1995
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Customer movements
Identify movements of sites from one hosting provider, technology or certificate authority to another on a monthly basis. Understand who you & your competitors are gaining and losing customers from
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Sales intelligence
Gain insights into your customer’s business. Know about their network and technology footprint before you talk to them
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Lead generation
Find prospects using your competitor’s services or products
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Investment opportunities
Make informed decisions on company acquisitions and investments. Spot key investment opportunities as they arise by monitoring customer adoption of hosting providers and web technologies
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Market share
Find out who the big players are in your market broken down by geographic region or site popularity. Track changes in your organisation’s market share over time
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Expansion opportunities
Identify geographic regions or technology sectors for expansion and who the competitors in that space are
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Identify emerging trends
Discover which companies, technologies and platforms are gaining traction to ensure you remain ‘ahead of the curve’
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Enforce software licensing
Identify unlicensed use of your product on the web ensuring minimal loss to your organisation from piracy
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Competitor analysis
Uncover your competitor’s customer base, to better optimise your strategy and sales
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Hosts, Domains & IPs
Our monthly Web Server Survey collects the hostnames, domains and IPs of each site and attributes them to a hosting location based on reverse DNS and IP delegation
Web-facing Computers
We have developed a technique for identifying which IP addresses belong to individual computers and what Operating System they are running, based on low-level TCP/IP characteristics
Web Technologies
Thousands of technology signatures split across over 50 technology groups (eg ecommerce, CMS and CDN platforms) are applied to the frontpages of each site we survey
Certificates & HTTPS
We’ve been tracking SSL since 1996 by connecting to HTTPS servers and collecting certificates
Site Popularity
The million busiest sites are determined by the number of visits from users of the Netcraft extensions and apps
Malicious Activity
The number of active phishing attacks blocked by Netcraft at each hosting location, and the median response time to abuse requests
Corporate Information
Allow for easy contact of discovered hosting companies and infrastructure providers with contact details of executives including LinkedIn profiles, email addresses and more
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List companies
Key details and metrics presented in a table format for easy comparison
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Metrics by company valuation
Identify publicly traded companies that are over- or under-valued by the stock market
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Search, filter and sort
Advanced search and filtering allow you to quickly narrow down the set of results to just those you are looking for
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Chart displays
Visualise the results as a time-series chart, top 10 bar chart, or interrogate the data further by comparing how data points are correlated
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Absolute or percentage metrics
View metrics as a percentage to get the market share of companies matching given criteria
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Export to TSV and PDF
Export data in TSV format for analysis using custom tools, or view detailed company information as a PDF