January 2025 Web Server Survey
In the January 2025 survey we received responses from 1,161,445,625 sites across 273,352,681 domains and 13,423,989 web-facing computers. This reflects an increase of 11.7 million sites, 770,099 domains, and 163,336 web-facing computers.
Cloudflare experienced the largest gain of 9.7 million sites (+7.13%) this month, increasing its market share to 12.6% (+0.72pp) of sites seen by Netcraft. OpenResty made the next largest gain of 2.8 million sites (+2.49%).
Apache suffered the largest loss of 2.0 million sites (-0.98%) this month, decreasing its market share to 17.0% (-0.34pp). Google experienced the next largest loss of 413,828 sites (-0.66%).
Vendor news
Amazon announced the general availability of two new AWS regions in Mexico (mx-central-1) and Thailand (ap-southeast-7).
lighttpd version 1.4.77 was released on January 10th, strengthening its TLS defaults and adding experimental support for Encrypted Client Hello.
njs version 0.8.9 was released on January 14th, adding support for the filesystem module to the QuickJS engine.
Developer | December 2024 | Percent | January 2025 | Percent | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
nginx | 226,171,028 | 19.67% | 227,636,798 | 19.60% | -0.07 |
Apache | 198,890,333 | 17.30% | 196,934,678 | 16.96% | -0.34 |
Cloudflare | 136,757,549 | 11.89% | 146,502,560 | 12.61% | 0.72 |
OpenResty | 112,584,126 | 9.79% | 115,381,972 | 9.93% | 0.14 |
Developer | December 2024 | Percent | January 2025 | Percent | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
nginx | 36,362,945 | 18.81% | 36,827,229 | 18.89% | 0.07 |
Apache | 34,037,621 | 17.61% | 33,614,146 | 17.24% | -0.37 |
Cloudflare | 31,976,614 | 16.55% | 32,122,224 | 16.48% | -0.07 |
19,724,966 | 10.21% | 18,317,836 | 9.40% | -0.81 |
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Developer | December 2024 | Percent | January 2025 | Percent | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Cloudflare | 241,861 | 24.19% | 237,838 | 23.78% | -0.40 |
nginx | 198,724 | 19.87% | 198,786 | 19.88% | 0.01 |
Apache | 182,697 | 18.27% | 177,682 | 17.77% | -0.50 |
Microsoft | 42,514 | 4.25% | 41,646 | 4.16% | -0.09 |
Developer | December 2024 | Percent | January 2025 | Percent | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
nginx | 5,107,656 | 38.52% | 5,307,532 | 39.54% | 1.02 |
Apache | 3,122,055 | 23.54% | 3,088,215 | 23.01% | -0.54 |
Microsoft | 1,219,404 | 9.20% | 1,166,024 | 8.69% | -0.51 |
Developer | December 2024 | Percent | January 2025 | Percent | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Apache | 53,825,093 | 19.75% | 53,044,316 | 19.41% | -0.34 |
nginx | 49,627,315 | 18.21% | 50,176,503 | 18.36% | 0.15 |
OpenResty | 47,817,232 | 17.54% | 47,644,149 | 17.43% | -0.11 |
Cloudflare | 26,923,570 | 9.88% | 27,715,054 | 10.14% | 0.26 |
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