November 2024 Web Server Survey
In the November 2024 survey we received responses from 1,141,129,846 sites across 272,032,056 domains and 13,114,233 web-facing computers. This reflects an increase of 10.1 million sites, 277,239 domains, and 110,998 web-facing computers.
Cloudflare experienced the largest gain of 2.6 million sites (+1.96%) this month, and now accounts for 11.8% (0.12pp) of sites seen by Netcraft. Google made the next largest gain of 1.4 million sites (+2.39%).
nginx experienced the largest loss of 6.6 million sites (-2.92%) this month, reducing its market share to 19.3% (-0.75pp). Microsoft suffered the next largest loss, down by 634,406 sites (-3.24%).
Vendor news
nginx 1.27.3 was released on November 26th. It adds support for automatically re-resolving the IP address of an upstream server, which previously required a restart in the open-source edition of nginx. It also disables TLS 1.0 and 1.1 by default.
Apache Tomcat versions 9.0.97, 10.1.33, and 11.0.1, were released, containing various bug fixes and improvements.
Cloudflare published a blog post describing how it migrated its customers' DNS records to a new database, improving performance.
Developer | October 2024 | Percent | November 2024 | Percent | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
nginx | 226,359,600 | 20.01% | 219,759,986 | 19.26% | -0.75 |
Apache | 199,150,231 | 17.61% | 199,979,734 | 17.52% | -0.08 |
Cloudflare | 131,624,333 | 11.64% | 134,206,904 | 11.76% | 0.12 |
OpenResty | 113,940,338 | 10.07% | 113,588,554 | 9.95% | -0.12 |
Developer | October 2024 | Percent | November 2024 | Percent | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
nginx | 36,782,559 | 18.98% | 36,316,193 | 18.92% | -0.06 |
Apache | 34,610,609 | 17.86% | 34,282,183 | 17.86% | -0.00 |
Cloudflare | 31,263,058 | 16.13% | 31,345,424 | 16.33% | 0.20 |
19,110,196 | 9.86% | 18,476,835 | 9.63% | -0.24 |
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Developer | October 2024 | Percent | November 2024 | Percent | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Cloudflare | 238,294 | 23.83% | 239,325 | 23.93% | 0.10 |
nginx | 200,444 | 20.04% | 198,976 | 19.90% | -0.15 |
Apache | 186,870 | 18.69% | 184,687 | 18.47% | -0.22 |
Microsoft | 43,904 | 4.39% | 43,604 | 4.36% | -0.03 |
Developer | October 2024 | Percent | November 2024 | Percent | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
nginx | 5,053,891 | 38.87% | 5,132,851 | 39.14% | 0.27 |
Apache | 3,131,957 | 24.09% | 3,118,996 | 23.78% | -0.30 |
Microsoft | 1,170,825 | 9.00% | 1,221,517 | 9.31% | 0.31 |
Developer | October 2024 | Percent | November 2024 | Percent | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Apache | 54,637,399 | 20.11% | 54,459,549 | 20.02% | -0.09 |
nginx | 51,352,878 | 18.90% | 50,271,645 | 18.48% | -0.42 |
OpenResty | 48,775,697 | 17.95% | 48,364,423 | 17.78% | -0.17 |
Cloudflare | 25,652,494 | 9.44% | 26,179,507 | 9.62% | 0.18 |
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