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May 2016 Web Server Survey

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Web server market share for active sites

Developer April 2016 Percent May 2016 Percent Change
Apache 82,446,619 49.15% 81,000,024 47.59% -1.56
nginx 28,196,262 16.81% 35,670,653 20.96% 4.15
Microsoft 16,887,242 10.07% 17,332,452 10.18% 0.12
Google 12,968,162 7.73% 14,086,046 8.28% 0.55

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Web server market share for top million busiest sites

Developer April 2016 Percent May 2016 Percent Change
Apache 451,872 45.19% 441,366 44.14% -1.05
nginx 256,361 25.64% 272,394 27.24% 1.60
Microsoft 112,604 11.26% 111,691 11.17% -0.09
Google 20,413 2.04% 20,911 2.09% 0.05
Web server market share for computers

Developer April 2016 Percent May 2016 Percent Change
Apache 2,780,859 47.94% 2,827,763 47.55% -0.39
Microsoft 1,526,227 26.31% 1,540,481 25.90% -0.41
nginx 843,926 14.55% 918,032 15.44% 0.89