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October 2018 Web Server Survey

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Web server market share for active sites

Developer September 2018 Percent October 2018 Percent Change
Apache 70,764,821 38.61% 57,564,608 29.95% -8.66
nginx 39,857,168 21.75% 42,200,955 21.96% 0.21
Microsoft 11,293,047 6.16% 15,792,573 8.22% 2.05
Google 13,980,055 7.63% 14,702,778 7.65% 0.02

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Web server market share for top million busiest sites

Developer September 2018 Percent October 2018 Percent Change
Apache 340,670 34.07% 335,084 33.51% -0.56
nginx 254,523 25.45% 252,806 25.28% -0.17
Microsoft 95,680 9.57% 94,927 9.49% -0.08
LiteSpeed 15,340 1.53% 15,342 1.53% 0.00
Web server market share for computers

Developer September 2018 Percent October 2018 Percent Change
Apache 3,074,726 39.49% 3,093,519 39.02% -0.47
nginx 2,102,537 27.00% 2,172,113 27.40% 0.39
Microsoft 1,525,353 19.59% 1,541,388 19.44% -0.15
Web server market share for domains

Developer September 2018 Percent October 2018 Percent Change
Apache 74,631,159 33.52% 74,827,166 33.25% -0.27
Microsoft 57,334,244 25.75% 56,890,163 25.28% -0.47
nginx 50,359,988 22.62% 52,013,436 23.11% 0.49
Google 2,014,885 0.91% 2,051,440 0.91% 0.01