Benchmarking Web Sites Workshop For Museum New Media Spring School - Server Analysis of Selected Web Sites

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The following table gives a summary of a survey of the server software used by Web sites for participants on the "Leicester Spring School In New Media" which was held at University of Leicester on 20^th April 2005.

The survey makes use of Dundee University's Web Wizards tool.

Alternatively enter a URL into the following box. The HTTP headers for the resource will be displayed.

Another tool you can use if the above tool is not available is Web sniffer:

**Table 1: Findings**
	Organisation	Server	Comments	Try It
1	Natural History Museum	Apache/2.0.48 (Unix) DAV/2 mod_jk2/2.0.2		Check
2	National Museum of Science and Industry	Microsoft-IIS/6.0		Check
3	The National Museum of Photography, Film & Television	Microsoft-IIS/6.0		Check
4	National Museums and Galleries of Wales	Apache/1.3.33 (Darwin) PHP/4.3.6		Check
5	Cotswold Motoring Museum'	Microsoft-IIS/4.0		Check
6	Bolton Museum, Art Gallery & Aquarium	Microsoft-IIS/6.0		Check
7	Museum of Science And Industry In Manchester	Microsoft-IIS/5.0		Check
8	24 Hour Museum	Apache/1.3.33 (Unix)		Check
9	MWR	mwr iServer/serverotron theta capa 1 (Spectrum)		Check
10	Arts and Technology Partnership	Apache/1.3.33 (Unix) PHP/4.3.10		Check
11	Department of Museum Studies, University of Leicester	Netscape-Enterprise/6.0		Check
12	Department of Information and Communication Technologies, Open University	QuidProQuo/2.0	Malformed response (full page returned)	Check
13	elearning group for museums and galleries, libraries and archives	Apache		Check

The information in the table was collected on 14^th April 2005.

Notes

Please note the following:

Only the entry points have been analysed.
Only an automated analysis has been carried out.
The online version of this page allows the latest findings to be obtained.

Summary

A summary of the findings is given below.

**Table 2: Server Summary**
MS IIS (or other)	5	38%
Apache	5	38%
Other	3	23%

**Table 2B: Version Summary**
IIS v6.*	3	23%
IIS v5.*	1	8%
IIS v4.*	1	8%

**Table 2C: OS Summary (Estimates)**
Unix	5	38%
Microsoft	5	38%
Unknown	3	23%