Web server market share for active sites

August 2022 Web Server Survey

Within the August 2022 survey we acquired responses from 1,135,075,578 websites throughout 271,740,771 distinctive domains
and 12,365,527 web-facing computer systems. This displays a lack of 4.4 million websites, however a achieve of 12,212 domains and
24,355 computer systems.

OpenResty noticed essentially the most vital change in web-facing computer systems, with a achieve of 10,138 (6.1%). Moreover, 2.8
million (3.1%) further websites have been seen since July, with a small lack of 466,322 domains (1.2%). This continues the development
of OpenResty’s quick progress in web-facing computer systems (46% since August 2021) whereas the variety of domains and websites has not
grown in tandem, remaining roughly static over the interval.

nginx continues to be essentially the most generally used net server and noticed modest features of 25,053 domains (0.03%) and 13,481
computer systems (0.3%). Nevertheless, we skilled a big discount within the variety of nginx-hosted websites responding to
our requests this month, with a lack of over 15 million. This represents round 4% of web sites hosted utilizing nginx in July.

Persevering with the development of sturdy progress over the previous two months, Cloudflare gained an extra 4.4 million websites
(6%) and 1.1 million domains (4.7%). This provides Cloudflare a complete market share of 6.8% of web sites and 9% of domains, an
enhance of 0.4pp on each metrics since July. Cloudflare additionally had the strongest progress amongst the highest million busiest
websites, gaining 0.25pp, thereby holding a 20.51% market share.

Apache’s place as essentially the most generally used net server for the highest million busiest websites continues to erode, with a lack of
0.19pp this month. nginx continues to achieve market share, up 0.07pp. If this development continues, nginx will overtake Apache
within the quick time period, and in the long run, Cloudflare will overtake each of its rivals.

Vendor information

  • nginx reaffirmed its commitment to the open source community on this yr’s roadmap, with a better give attention to modernising its group administration method and optimising finish developer experiences.
  • Lighttpd 1.4.66 was launched on 7 August 2022, that includes a variety of bug fixes.
  • Apache Tomcat 8.5.82 was launched on 13 August 2022. Nearly all of adjustments have been minor, nonetheless, the discharge features a mitigation for an XSS vulnerability in instance code distributed with Tomcat (CVE-2022-34305).
  • Cloudflare introduced the supply of Weighted Swimming pools for its Load Balancer product, which permits for assigning weights to origin servers to distribute requests non-uniformly.
  • LiteSpeed Web Server 6.1 RC1 Dev was launched on 17 August 2022. That is the most recent model within the LSWS 6.1 stream and consists of help for triggering reCAPTCHA in its mod_security engine, and several other bugfixes.
Total number of websites
Web server market share
Developer July 2022 % August 2022 % Change
nginx 343,354,785 30.13% 328,204,211 28.91% -1.22
Apache 258,219,193 22.66% 256,787,976 22.62% -0.04
OpenResty 89,805,020 7.88% 92,609,414 8.16% 0.28
Cloudflare 73,162,681 6.42% 77,538,226 6.83% 0.41
Web server market share for active sites
Developer July 2022 % August 2022 % Change
Apache 44,643,002 22.66% 44,132,533 22.20% -0.46
nginx 39,859,338 20.23% 39,767,854 20.00% -0.23
Cloudflare 20,587,122 10.45% 21,302,285 10.71% 0.27
Google 19,193,202 9.74% 19,024,256 9.57% -0.17

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Web server market share for top million busiest sites
Developer July 2022 % August 2022 % Change
Apache 223,267 22.33% 221,395 22.14% -0.19
nginx 215,458 21.55% 216,175 21.62% 0.07
Cloudflare 202,621 20.26% 205,130 20.51% 0.25
Microsoft 55,890 5.59% 55,626 5.56% -0.03
Web server market share for computers
Developer July 2022 % August 2022 % Change
nginx 4,756,607 38.54% 4,770,130 38.58% 0.03
Apache 3,446,872 27.93% 3,423,697 27.69% -0.24
Microsoft 1,345,837 10.91% 1,331,052 10.76% -0.14
Web server market share for domains
Developer July 2022 % August 2022 % Change
nginx 75,038,110 27.62% 75,063,163 27.62% 0.01
Apache 61,290,015 22.56% 60,875,280 22.40% -0.15
OpenResty 40,153,804 14.78% 39,687,482 14.60% -0.17
Cloudflare 23,327,300 8.58% 24,416,693 8.99% 0.40

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