May 2025 Web Server Survey

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May 30, 2025

May 30, 2025

May 30, 2025

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In the May 2025 survey we received responses from 1,227,232,638 sites across 277,546,948 domains and 13,470,692 web-facing computers. This reflects an increase of 8.9 million sites, 47,981 domains, and 29,625 web-facing computers.

nginx experienced the largest gain of 6.4 million sites (+2.51%) this month, and now accounts for 21.2% (+0.37pp) of sites seen by Netcraft. Cloudflare made the next largest gain of 2.1 million sites (+1.33%).

Apache was the only major vendor to suffer a loss this month. It lost 449,813 sites (-0.24%), reducing its market share to 15.3% (-0.15pp).

Vendor news

graph01_202505_00: Total number of websitesgraph02_202505_00: Web server market share

Developer

April 2025

Percent

May 2025

Percent

Change

nginx

253,257,060

20.79%

259,608,513

21.15%

0.37

Apache

187,983,076

15.43%

187,533,263

15.28%

-0.15

Cloudflare

158,013,542

12.97%

160,107,431

13.05%

0.08

OpenResty

84,952,708

6.97%

85,563,363

6.97%

-0.00


graph03_202505_00: Web server market share for active sites

Developer

April 2025

Percent

May 2025

Percent

Change

nginx

36,688,491

18.42%

37,242,295

18.73%

0.31

Cloudflare

36,009,328

18.08%

36,030,473

18.12%

0.04

Apache

31,330,354

15.73%

31,407,947

15.79%

0.06

Google

19,196,655

9.64%

19,251,832

9.68%

0.04

For more information see Active Sites.

graph04_202505_00: Web server market share for top million busiest sites

Developer

April 2025

Percent

May 2025

Percent

Change

Cloudflare

226,455

22.65%

227,693

22.77%

0.12

nginx

203,032

20.30%

202,792

20.28%

-0.02

Apache

178,949

17.89%

178,449

17.84%

-0.05

LiteSpeed

42,186

4.22%

41,998

4.20%

-0.02

graph05_202505_00: Web server market share for computers

Developer

April 2025

Percent

May 2025

Percent

Change

nginx

5,411,818

40.26%

5,516,359

40.95%

0.69

Apache

3,057,596

22.75%

3,069,468

22.79%

0.04

Microsoft

1,153,038

8.58%

1,162,424

8.63%

0.05

graph06_202505_00: Web server market share for domains

Developer

April 2025

Percent

May 2025

Percent

Change

nginx

51,222,343

18.46%

52,181,454

18.80%

0.34

Apache

50,826,468

18.32%

49,889,440

17.98%

-0.34

OpenResty

40,073,163

14.44%

39,841,012

14.35%

-0.09

Cloudflare

30,028,444

10.82%

30,547,926

11.01%

0.19

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