In the December 2024 survey we received responses from 1,149,724,280 sites across 272,582,582 domains and 13,260,653 web-facing computers. This reflects an increase of 8.6 million sites, 550,526 domains, and 146,420 web-facing computers.

nginx experienced the largest gain of 6.4 million sites (+2.92%) this month, and now accounts for 19.7% (+0.41pp) of sites seen by Netcraft. Cloudflare made the next largest gain of 2.6 million sites (+1.90%).

Apache experienced the largest loss of 1.1 million sites (-0.54%) this month, reducing its market share to 17.3% (-0.23pp). OpenResty suffered the next largest loss, down by 1.0 million sites (-0.88%).

000webhost shutdown

Earlier this year, Hostinger announced the closure of its 000webhost brand, which provided free web hosting. It has now shut down all remaining 000webhost sites, resulting in the number of sites hosted at Hostinger dropping by just under 50% this month - from 15.3 million to 8.1 million.

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Graph showing the number of sites hosted by Hostinger since 2021.[/caption]

Most of the sites Hostinger lost this month no longer exist - only around 114,000 moved to competitors.

Vendor news

• Apache Tomcat versions 9.0.98, 10.1.34, and 11.0.2 were released on December 9th, adding support for strong ETags and the standards track RateLimit header.

• njs 0.8.8 was released on December 10th, adding support for more functions when QuickJS is used as an alternative JavaScript engine.

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