February 2025 Web Server Survey
In the February 2025 survey we received responses from 1,180,650,484 sites across 274,656,941 domains and 13,480,350 web-facing computers. This reflects an increase of 19.2 million sites, 1.3 million domains, and 56,361 web-facing computers.
nginx made the largest gain of 12.5 million sites (+5.51%), now accounting for 20.3% (+0.74pp) of sites seen by Netcraft. Cloudflare experienced the next largest gain of 3.9 million sites (+2.68%).
Apache experienced the largest loss this month, of 4.5 million sites.
Vendor news
Apache httpd 2.4.63 was released on January 23rd, primarily containing bug fixes.
F5 announced that the nginx documentation was open-sourced on January 28th, hosted in a new GitHub repository. F5 also launched the new NGINX Community Forum on February 4th.
nginx 1.27.4 was released on February 5th, fixing a vulnerability that allowed SSL client certificate validation to be bypassed in certain conditions. It also adds support for caching SSL certificates loaded dynamically based on a variable like the server name.
Apache Tomcat versions 9.0.100, 10.1.36, and 11.0.4 were released on February 17th and 18th.
LiteSpeed 6.3.2 was released on February 18th, fixing hash collision vulnerability in its QUIC implementation. The release also contains a range of features and bug fixes, including improvements to LiteSpeed's anti-denial of service attack support.
Developer | January 2025 | Percent | February 2025 | Percent | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
nginx | 227,636,798 | 19.60% | 240,182,690 | 20.34% | 0.74 |
Apache | 196,934,678 | 16.96% | 192,401,922 | 16.30% | -0.66 |
Cloudflare | 146,502,560 | 12.61% | 150,432,756 | 12.74% | 0.13 |
OpenResty | 115,381,972 | 9.93% | 111,442,093 | 9.44% | -0.50 |
Developer | January 2025 | Percent | February 2025 | Percent | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
nginx | 36,827,229 | 18.89% | 36,179,069 | 18.38% | -0.51 |
Cloudflare | 32,122,224 | 16.48% | 34,245,606 | 17.40% | 0.92 |
Apache | 33,614,146 | 17.24% | 32,549,711 | 16.54% | -0.70 |
18,317,836 | 9.40% | 18,744,996 | 9.52% | 0.13 |
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Developer | January 2025 | Percent | February 2025 | Percent | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Cloudflare | 237,838 | 23.78% | 229,874 | 22.99% | -0.80 |
nginx | 198,786 | 19.88% | 201,058 | 20.11% | 0.23 |
Apache | 177,682 | 17.77% | 178,287 | 17.83% | 0.06 |
Microsoft | 41,646 | 4.16% | 41,612 | 4.16% | -0.00 |
Developer | January 2025 | Percent | February 2025 | Percent | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
nginx | 5,307,532 | 39.54% | 5,319,894 | 39.46% | -0.07 |
Apache | 3,088,215 | 23.01% | 3,079,017 | 22.84% | -0.16 |
Microsoft | 1,166,024 | 8.69% | 1,166,631 | 8.65% | -0.03 |
Developer | January 2025 | Percent | February 2025 | Percent | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Apache | 53,044,316 | 19.41% | 51,860,896 | 18.88% | -0.52 |
nginx | 50,176,503 | 18.36% | 50,684,106 | 18.45% | 0.10 |
OpenResty | 47,644,149 | 17.43% | 47,057,779 | 17.13% | -0.30 |
Cloudflare | 27,715,054 | 10.14% | 28,694,732 | 10.45% | 0.31 |
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