Everything about Netcraft totally explained
Netcraft is an
Internet services company based in
Bath,
England.
Netcraft provides webserver and webhosting market-share analysis, including
web server and
operating system detection. In some cases, depending on the queried server's operating system, their service is able to monitor
uptimes; uptime performance monitoring is a commonly used factor in determining the reliability of a web hosting provider.
Netcraft also provides
security testing, and publishes news releases about the state of various
networks that make up the
Internet. These news releases and statistics are widely referred to and considered relevant by the technology and Internet press, and the company is listed as a news outlet on
Google News and
Yahoo News. In late
October 2006, Netcraft identified 100 million Web sites with domain names and content on them, of which 47 to 48 percent represented active sites.
The company is famous for its free
anti-phishing toolbar for the
Firefox and
Internet Explorer browsers. Starting with the upcoming version 9.5, the built-in anti-phishing filter in the
Opera browser will be using the same data as Netcraft's toolbar, eliminating the need for a separately installed toolbar. A study commissioned by
Microsoft concluded that Netcraft's toolbar was among the most effective tools to combat
phishing on the
Internet, although this has since been superseded by Microsoft's own Internet Explorer 7 Beta 3 RC3 with Microsoft Phishing Filter, possibly as a result of licensing Netcraft's data.
Bob Metcalfe, inventor of
Ethernet, and co-founder of
3com, pronounced Netcraft "cool", while
Tim O'Reilly called
www.netcraft.com the best known example of a site devoted to tracking technology on the
Internet.
Clients
Netcraft has a cosmopolitan client list, spread through the UK, the USA, mainland Europe, the Middle East, Asia Pacific and Latin America.
Clients include
Aegon,
British Telecom,
Capita,
John Lewis,
Lloyds of London,
Microsoft,
Opera Software,
Rackspace, and
Securicor.
Further Information
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