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Warning: This web at
toLearn.net/marketing/ is two years old, it's unattended, and the
links are rotting. However, in June 2000, the
server recorded over 10,000 page requests during more than 3,000 visitor sessions from dozens of
countries. Thus, I'm reluctant to take it down completely. Ricci Street | MBA 604 | marketing |
Internet Growth Charts Let's start with the graph from the Welcome to the Internet page. Internet Domains
It shows the growth of Internet domains. Since we're concerned about growth over time, if we run time along every x-axis, we'll be able to compare the curves. When similar measures produce the same curve, the reliability of each is strengthened. The graph below measures Web servers. The term "server" is commonly used to refer to the hardware as well as the software package running on it. Commonly, there's a one-to-one relationship between them. The hardware's no good without the software and you don't need more than one software package per server. Web Servers
Note The graph above doesn't cover as much time as the other three because there was nothing to measure five years ago. So the curve is a little flatter. This subject is much more compex than I can cover here. If you want more info on hosts and networks -- the graphs below -- please pursue it and share your learning with the rest of us. I'm including them here only to demonstrate the same curve and to increase the validity of each measure. Internet Hosts
Online Networks
The colorful graph below from Netcraft doesn't have the same curve. It's measuring a much shorter period of time over roughly the same height and width. It gives you an idea about the relative strength of the companies that can afford the advertising and that you'll read about in the print magazines. Apache is free so most of the information about it is, too, advertising-free, that is, on the Web. Medaille, by the way, uses Netscape's Fast Track, in the royal blue band. Server Software Share
You can see where some of these other curves are lagging behind according to Moore's Law. That's because the chip speeds that it measures take a few years to get commercialized. It takes a little while after that for the increasing power to get purchased and learned. If you want a glimpse of the near future, catch the graphics on the Nintendo and Sega 64-bit game machines that came to market late in 1997.
The grey-scale graphs came from Hobbes'
Internet World. http://www.is-bremen.de/~mhi/inetgrow.htm Internet growth summary compiled from:
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