Now, any website customer that purchases one of VeriSign's premium Secure Site or Global Site services will also receive a diagnostic check of its web server vulnerabilities. The service is being offered as part of an arrangement with Netcraft, a web server security consultancy.

— Verisign, 21st October 1999

The Queen has just become the latest and most prominent supporter of Linux... nobody even noticed the change until it was picked up by a website monitoring organisation, Netcraft.

— The Sunday Times, 18th October 1999

[Netcraft] is quoted widely in open-source circles as to the truth about the dominance of Linux.

— Infoworld, 26th July 1999

Netcraft also surveys SSL servers on the Internet, and there the numbers are very different: Microsoft's 37 percent is almost twice that of Netscape's or Stonghold's share, and Sun Web Server doesn't even make the list. Because SSL servers are more likely to be real business servers, Netcraft's survey is a telling indicator of Microsoft's presence in the market.

— ZDNet, 10th May 1999

Just two years ago the Netcraft survey counted 1 million sites on the Web, the latest survey finds that there are now over 5 million web sites.

— NUA, 20th April 1999

Every consultancy has its own estimates of Asian e-commerce revenues; all agree that they are small compared to America's but whose aren't? A more reliable guide may be the number of secure web servers in each country. Secure servers are used mainly for e-commerce, and they have certificates giving the actual country of residence, as opposed to address domains such as .uk or .fr which can often be misleading... Today Asia has nearly two-thirds as many e-commerce servers as the EU and it is gaining ground, according to Netcraft.

— The Economist, 19th April 1999

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BATH is establishing itself as a centre of technological excellence with several of the faster growing IT companies in the south. This is the encouraging finding of a survey by chartered accountants and management cousultants Deloitte and Touche. It highlights three local companies which have impressive growth rates and increasing client bases across Europe, America and beyond.

The firms, Global Software Services, Netcraft Ltd and Flare Software Systems plc are by no means household names. They are, however, at the cutting edge of Bath's economy as we go into the new millenium. This type of company, generally set up in the late 1980s or early 1990s has embraced new technologies with both hands. They recognised early on that an economic revolution was taking place on a global scale and were not afraid of it.

The fact that firms such as these choose set up in and around Bath says a lot for our city. The nature of these businesses is that there is generally no restriction on where they can locate. In many cases they can choose which part of the country they would like to be in on the grounds of lifestyle. There are, of course, other factors such as links with educational or research establishments, but in Bath's case this is not a problem.

The launch last week of a new forum in Bath for businesses, the University of Bath and local politicians, was further evidence that our city recognises that it has a lot to offer the cutting edge firms and should stand up and shout about it. The days of heavy industry in Bath when cranes dotted the horizon along the riverbank are long gone. Other traditional industries have also closed or been dramatically reduced in size. That may be sad, but its a fact. Bath needs to look to the future and tell the world what an attractive place it is to set up a business.

Global Software Services grew by 707 per cent in the three years from 1995, while Netcraft has seen a 300 per cent growth. These figures speak for themselves. These are the firms we need to attract.

The Technology Fast 50 is an awards programme designed by Deloitte & Touche to reward and promote the fastest growing technology companies. Originally started in San Jose in 1995, and expanded across the US in the last three years, the Technology Fast 50 has become a global programme enabling companies to review their performance on an international stage.

"Technology is the principle driving force behind economic development and will continue to be the focus of growth well into the next century" said Mark Mullins, partner, Deloitte & Touche, Bristol. "On average the technology industry in the UK is growing at 25% per annum, and provides the UK's best chance of making its mark internationally. The Fast 50 companies make a considerable contribution to the local economy, and the awards are our recognition of this".

At the regional awards ceremony held in Bristol on Thursday 8th April, Netcraft was ranked as the 7th fastest growing technology company in the South West region, bounded by Penzance, Swansea, Oxford and Portsmouth.

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The Web is changing the way we do many things: the way we communicate (e-mail), the way we sell (e-commerce), the way we learn about the world (on-line news). It is also changing a fundamental tenet of economics, the one that goes, There's no such thing as a free lunch.

— IEEE Spectrum, 5th August 1998

The company's Stronghold secure web server is currently the number one full-strength secure web server in the world, according to a secure web server survey by Netcraft, Ltd.

— C2NET, 25th June 1998

In the classic film The Wizard of Oz, the Wicked Witch of the West dissolves in a single splash of water. In a similar fashion, the latest numbers from Netcraft splash water in the face of both Netscape and Microsoft.

— ZDNet, 20th January 1998

The Apache Web server, and its related versions, can now be found on over half of all servers on the Internet, according to the January Web server survey of Britain's Netcraft.

— CNN, 5th January 1998