November 2022 Web Server Survey

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November 9, 2022

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In the November 2022 survey we received responses from 1,135,089,912 sites across 271,689,143 domains and 12,306,625 web-facing computers. This reflects a gain of 4.7 million sites, a loss of 194,480 domains, and a gain of 6,685 web-facing computers.

The biggest growth this month comes from Cloudflare, with it gaining 8.3 million sites (+8.91%) and 490,000 domains (+1.94%). Cloudflare now accounts for 8.93% of all sites seen by Netcraft, up by 0.70pp since October.

nginx saw significant losses in its number of sites and domains this month. It lost 8.5 million sites (-2.75%) and 490,000 domains (-0.66%). However, nginx still holds its strong lead as the most widely used web server software, with a market share of 26.51% sites. Apache has the second largest number of sites, with a market share of 21.40%.

LiteSpeed continues its strong growth — this month it gained 720,000 sites (+1.28%) and 110,000 domains (+1.32%). This brings its market share of sites from 4.97% to 5.01% (+0.04pp).

Following its web-wide trend, Cloudflare has also seen growth in the top million sites. Since October, it gained 1,733 of the top million sites, with its market share increasing from 20.83% to 21.00% (+0.17pp). Meanwhile, both Apache and nginx have lost market share in the top million sites, with Apache down from 21.72% to 21.66% (-0.06pp) and nginx down from 21.36% to 21.21% (-0.15pp).

Vendor news

  • nginx 1.23.2 was released on 19th October 2022. This version fixes memory corruption and disclosure vulnerabilities in ngx_http_mp4_module.

  • njs 0.7.8, the scripting language used to extend nginx, was released on 25th October 2022, adding many language features and bug fixes.

  • Apache Tomcat versions 8.5.83, 9.0.68, 10.0.27, and 10.1.1 were released on 3rd October 2022. Most of the changes are bugfixes.

  • Cloudflare announced early access for Privacy Gateway, a proxy allowing HTTP traffic to be securely encapsulated. It is based on the Oblivious HTTP IETF draft.

  • AWS announced two new Local Zones: Hamburg, Germany and Warsaw, Poland. These are the first locations in Europe, and add to the now 20 generally available Local Zones.

graph01_202211_00: Total number of websitesgraph02_202211_00: Web server market share

Developer

October 2022

Percent

November 2022

Percent

Change

nginx

309,403,564

27.37%

300,890,891

26.51%

-0.86

Apache

245,852,856

21.75%

242,899,324

21.40%

-0.35

Cloudflare

93,074,821

8.23%

101,367,889

8.93%

0.70

OpenResty

91,587,837

8.10%

91,612,799

8.07%

-0.03

graph03_202211_00: Web server market share for active sites

Developer

October 2022

Percent

November 2022

Percent

Change

Apache

42,720,717

21.49%

42,803,960

21.56%

0.07

nginx

39,104,158

19.67%

38,955,039

19.62%

-0.05

Cloudflare

21,458,649

10.80%

21,187,445

10.67%

-0.12

Google

19,845,216

9.98%

19,829,899

9.99%

0.00

For more information see Active Sites

graph04_202211_00: Web server market share for top million busiest sites

Developer

October 2022

Percent

November 2022

Percent

Change

Apache

217,191

21.72%

216,640

21.66%

-0.06

nginx

213,569

21.36%

212,059

21.21%

-0.15

Cloudflare

208,251

20.83%

209,984

21.00%

0.17

Microsoft

54,812

5.48%

54,285

5.43%

-0.05

graph05_202211_00: Web server market share for computers

Developer

October 2022

Percent

November 2022

Percent

Change

nginx

4,786,026

38.91%

4,806,069

39.05%

0.14

Apache

3,407,908

27.71%

3,389,582

27.54%

-0.16

Microsoft

1,293,490

10.52%

1,264,268

10.27%

-0.24

graph06_202211_00: Web server market share for domains

Developer

October 2022

Percent

November 2022

Percent

Change

nginx

74,662,305

27.46%

74,170,647

27.30%

-0.16

Apache

59,540,179

21.90%

59,273,640

21.82%

-0.08

OpenResty

39,765,218

14.63%

39,633,742

14.59%

-0.04

Cloudflare

25,154,284

9.25%

25,641,553

9.44%

0.19

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