UKOLN Netcraft Analyses of the Shortlist for 2001 SPIN-SOCITM Website Awards



This page provides access to the Netcraft service which will report on server software and server uptime.

This data was collected to support a paper on Automated Benchmarking Of Local Government Web Sites.

Table 1 :Entry Point of Short-listed Web Sites

England

Scotland

Wales

Northern Ireland

L B Brent Dumfries & Galloway Council Cardiff CC Antrim BC
L B Camden Dundee City Council Ceredigion CC Armagh DC
L B Richmond East Renfrewshire Council Isle of Anglesey CC Belfast City Council
Tameside MBC Moray Council Wrexham CBC Newtownabbey BC
Wokingham Council West Lothian Council    

Summary

The following information was recorded on 30 July 2001.

Table 2: Netcraft Analyses of Short-listed Web Sites
Site Analyse Server Software Server Availability
L B Brent Go Lotus-Domino/5.0.5 on unknown Sufficient monitoring information not available currently
L B Camden Go Microsoft-IIS/4.0 on NT4/Windows 98 Uptime information not available
LB Richmond Go Microsoft-IIS/4.0 on NT4/Windows 98 Uptime information not available
Tameside MBC Go Apache/1.3.6 (Unix) ApacheJServ/1.0b3 PHP/3.0.7 on SCO UNIX Uptime information not available
Wokingham Council Go Microsoft-IIS/4.0 on NT4/Windows 98 Uptime information not available
Dumfries & Galloway Council Go Microsoft-IIS/4.0 on NT4/Windows 98 Uptime information not available
Dundee City Council Go Apache/1.3.19 (Unix) PHP/4.0.4pl1 on FreeBSD Uptime information not available
East Renfrewshire Council Go Microsoft-IIS/4.0 on NT4/Windows 98 Sufficient monitoring information not available currently
Moray Council Go Microsoft-IIS/4.0 on NT4/Windows 98 Uptime information not available
West Lothian Council Go Microsoft-IIS/4.0 on NT4/Windows 98 Uptime information not available
Cardiff CC Go Microsoft-IIS/4.0 on NT4/Windows 98 Uptime information not available
Ceredigion CC Go Apache/1.3.6 (Unix) on Solaris Figure available - 326 days uptime (75 day moving average)
Isle of Anglesey CC Go Microsoft-IIS/4.0 on NT4/Windows 98 Uptime information not available
Wrexham CBC Go Apache/1.3.12 (Unix) mod_perl/1.24 mod_ssl/2.6.6 OpenSSL/0.9.6 on Solaris Figures available - 19.29 days uptime (59 day moving average)
Antrim BC Go Microsoft-IIS/5.0 on Windows 2000 Figures available - 17.7 days uptime (90 day moving average)
Armagh DC Go Apache/1.3.19 (Unix) PHP/4.0.5 AuthMySQL/2.20 on FreeBSD Uptime information not available
Belfast City Council Go Microsoft-IIS/4.0 on NT4/Windows 98 Uptime information not available
Newtownabbey BC Go Microsoft-IIS/4.0 on NT4/Windows 98 Uptime information not available

Why Is This Information Useful?

This information can show the most popular Web server platforms and operating system environments. This may be useful in negotiations, identifying training requirements, etc.

The Web server availability data can be useful in giving an indication of the reliability of server environments.

How Can This Information Be Misinterpreted?

Certain Web server products will not provide information on the underlying hardware platform.


Review

Server Platform

Of the 18 Web sites surveyed, 12 (66.7%) were running on an MS Windows platform, 5 (27.8%) were running on a Unix platform and 1 (5.6%) on an unknown platform.

Server Software

Of the 18 Web sites surveyed, 12 (66.7%) were running an MS Windows Web server, 5 (27.8%) were running an Apache Web server and 1 (5.6%) on a Lotus Domino Web server.

Server Uptime

At the time of writing server uptime data is only availability for a limited number of sites.