July 2024 Web Server Survey
In the July 2024 survey we received responses from 1,104,170,084 sites across 270,429,856 domains and 12,891,416 web-facing computers. This reflects an increase of 2.7 million sites, 1.3 million domains, and 25,984 web-facing computers.
Cloudflare experienced the largest gain of 2.7 million sites (+2.18%) this month, and now accounts for 11.3% (0.21pp) of sites seen by Netcraft. OpenResty made the next largest gain of 2.2 million sites (+1.88%).
nginx experienced the largest loss of 6.5 million sites (-2.78%) this month, reducing its market share to 20.7% (-0.65pp). Apache suffered the next largest loss, down by 3.4 million sites (-1.60%).
Vendor news
Apache 2.4.62 was released on July 17th, containing fixes for two security vulnerabilities.
freenginx 1.27.2 was released on July 9th, adding support for rate limiting error logs.
OpenResty versions 1.21.4.4 and 1.25.3.2 were released on July 21st, fixing a security issue in its fork of LuaJIT that could cause severe performance degradation under certain circumstances.
Cloudflare added a new one-click button for its customers to block AI scrapers and crawlers.
Developer | June 2024 | Percent | July 2024 | Percent | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
nginx | 235,170,823 | 21.35% | 228,626,175 | 20.71% | -0.65 |
Apache | 212,402,611 | 19.28% | 208,999,470 | 18.93% | -0.36 |
Cloudflare | 121,715,882 | 11.05% | 124,366,036 | 11.26% | 0.21 |
OpenResty | 118,852,803 | 10.79% | 121,083,375 | 10.97% | 0.18 |
Developer | June 2024 | Percent | July 2024 | Percent | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Apache | 36,784,011 | 19.13% | 36,313,526 | 18.73% | -0.40 |
nginx | 34,778,931 | 18.09% | 34,630,677 | 17.86% | -0.23 |
Cloudflare | 28,457,465 | 14.80% | 29,463,646 | 15.19% | 0.40 |
19,253,340 | 10.01% | 19,361,526 | 9.99% | -0.03 |
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Developer | June 2024 | Percent | July 2024 | Percent | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Cloudflare | 230,996 | 23.10% | 230,344 | 23.03% | -0.07 |
nginx | 205,005 | 20.50% | 204,303 | 20.43% | -0.07 |
Apache | 196,945 | 19.69% | 194,581 | 19.46% | -0.24 |
Microsoft | 45,441 | 4.54% | 45,186 | 4.52% | -0.03 |
Developer | June 2024 | Percent | July 2024 | Percent | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
nginx | 4,983,288 | 38.73% | 5,000,672 | 38.79% | 0.06 |
Apache | 3,179,967 | 24.72% | 3,171,258 | 24.60% | -0.12 |
Microsoft | 1,162,544 | 9.04% | 1,168,997 | 9.07% | 0.03 |
Developer | June 2024 | Percent | July 2024 | Percent | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
nginx | 58,833,354 | 21.86% | 58,550,147 | 21.65% | -0.21 |
Apache | 56,621,922 | 21.04% | 56,523,544 | 20.90% | -0.14 |
OpenResty | 48,342,096 | 17.96% | 48,247,896 | 17.84% | -0.12 |
Cloudflare | 23,150,381 | 8.60% | 23,547,247 | 8.71% | 0.11 |
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