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Forecasting NGINX and IIS web server software growth in 2012
Last week we published an article declaring that NGINX had become the second most used web server software in the world, thereby overtaking Microsoft Internet Information Server (IIS). In that article, based on figures from Netcraft’s Web Server Survey , we looked at the data for “active sites.” NGINX had in that category pulled ahead of IIS for the first time, even though it was by a slim margin.
Web pages are getting more bloated, and here’s why
Over the past year, web pages have on average become 25% bigger . We’re not talking about dimensions here, but download size. Based on the top 1,000 websites on the Internet, the average page size has gone from 626 kB to 784 kB.
Windows 7 just became the most widely used desktop OS in the world
In October, Windows 7 usage has for the first time surpassed Windows XP usage globally according to statistics from StatCounter . In other words, Windows 7 just became the most widely used desktop OS in the world. This has been a long time coming.
