Re: PHP usage stats

2009/2/9 Daniel Brown <danbrown@php.net>: > On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 14:58, Shawn McKenzie <nospam@mckenzies.net> wrote: >>> >> And HTM shows 701M, so it is now beating out ASP :-) > > Another bone of contention is the masking --- I mentioned it > briefly in my original remarks in this thread, but on further > investigation, it may actually have a substantial impact on numbers. > More sites are using mod_rewrite and similar tactics to use > extensionless URL's and SEFU's (Search Engine-Friendly URL's) than > ASP, as it seems from a random sampling of 100 websites that I put > into an array and checked with a simple, dumb script. > > Eventually, perhaps sooner than later (though I hate that phrase), > curiosity is going to lead me to build a spider and database to > collect some real samples and do some metrics. Probably later this > week, in fact.... I would advise you against wasting your time because there is no reliable way to tell what systems a server is actually using to serve pages. Nearly all sites I work on these days use techniques to remove extensions from URLs, and a fair few hide all details of the server software for a variety of reasons. Since you can't say with any certainty what your margin of error is, the numbers will be meaningless as a measure of language usage. Having said that it's been a while since I wrote a spider, shame I don't have time to have a go at the moment. Have fun ;-) -Stuart -- http://stut.net/