Netcraft is an networking consultancy based in Bath, England and is well known worldwide for its Web Server Survey, which is widely considered a primary empirical metric for the number of web sites and the relative popularity of web server software on the internet. Netcraft's turnover was excess of 1.5 million pounds in the year ending September 1997, and is profitable, with growth funded from cashflow. Clients include IBM, Hewlett Packard, Sun Microsystems, and Microsoft.