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March 2018 Web Server Survey

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Web server market share for active sites

Developer February 2018 Percent March 2018 Percent Change
Apache 77,324,937 42.72% 76,398,184 43.03% 0.31
nginx 38,239,250 21.13% 37,321,104 21.02% -0.11
Google 14,288,736 7.89% 13,684,777 7.71% -0.19
Microsoft 12,301,688 6.80% 11,986,413 6.75% -0.05

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Web server market share for top million busiest sites

Developer February 2018 Percent March 2018 Percent Change
Apache 367,859 36.79% 366,272 36.63% -0.16
nginx 259,178 25.92% 237,588 23.76% -2.16
Microsoft 94,063 9.41% 93,016 9.30% -0.10
LiteSpeed 14,392 1.44% 14,465 1.45% 0.01
Web server market share for computers

Developer February 2018 Percent March 2018 Percent Change
Apache 3,048,885 41.82% 3,018,056 41.15% -0.66
nginx 1,745,476 23.94% 1,798,113 24.52% 0.58
Microsoft 1,536,506 21.07% 1,536,371 20.95% -0.12
Web server market share for domains

Developer February 2018 Percent March 2018 Percent Change
Apache 81,313,075 37.99% 80,745,341 37.60% -0.39
Microsoft 56,723,133 26.50% 57,136,501 26.60% 0.10
nginx 43,968,525 20.54% 44,450,473 20.70% 0.15
Google 1,863,700 0.87% 1,878,467 0.87% 0.00