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by pthreads 3359 days ago
>Can also be re-written as "Apache Still the dominant web platform for the internet despite the upstarts.."

No, it can't. That just misses the entire point of the article. The key take away from it is how much Nginx has grown in the last few years by taking share away from Apache especially those deployments that needed support of modern protocols (from the article: 76.8% of all sites supporting HTTP/2 use Nginx, while only 2.3% of those sites rely on Apache). All the others have barely made a dent.

Also read the distribution of how Nginx fares vs. Apache among the top websites. It gives a much better picture of what is happening.

>I Don't consciously know either server, I just like the way sites can spin facts differently.

Well then you really can't make the statement that it is a spin, can you?

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I assume boznz meant an entire (different) article could be written with that headline. One can certainly call this or the theoretical opposite article spin.
You could maybe write three sentences on "still a lot of Apache". It's the changes that you need to learn about.
I could certainly write a lot more than that on the topic, as could any decent writer. What one needs to learn about and one writes about is not necessarily the same thing. Again, I think the original comment here was more of a general statement about the manipulability of statistical analysis "articles".
You can write an article about anything in the world. But when it comes to statistical analysis then in a pretty objective sense there is only one interesting thing to say about this data. Despite theoretical ability to be manipulative, only one of these two angles qualifies as news.