September 2024 Web Server Survey
In the September 2024 survey we received responses from 1,119,023,272 sites across 270,782,860 domains and 12,940,670 web-facing computers. This reflects an increase of 11.2 million sites, 717,065 domains, and 70,346 web-facing computers.
Cloudflare experienced the largest increase of 3.1 million sites (+2.41%) this month, now accounting for 11.6% (0.16pp) of sites seen by Netcraft. OpenResty made the next largest gain of 2.8 million sites (+2.54%).
Apache suffered the largest loss of 2.4 million sites (-1.19%) this month, with its market share now standing at 18.0% (-0.40pp). Google experienced the next largest loss, down by 1.7 million sites (-2.84%).
Vendor news
The open-source nginx project moved its repository from Mercurial to GitHub and will now accept contributions via GitHub pull requests and issues. It also moved its community forum to GitHub discussions. It will continue to accept contributions via its mailing lists until the end of the year.
LiteSpeed 6.3.1 was released on August 27th, adding support for disabling its caching engine at the request level.
Apache Tomcat versions 9.0.94, 10.1.29 and 11.0.0-M25 were released on September 10th, containing various bug fixes.
Developer | August 2024 | Percent | September 2024 | Percent | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
nginx | 223,025,645 | 20.13% | 225,640,032 | 20.16% | 0.03 |
Apache | 203,825,341 | 18.40% | 201,390,151 | 18.00% | -0.40 |
Cloudflare | 127,028,522 | 11.47% | 130,093,325 | 11.63% | 0.16 |
OpenResty | 108,954,196 | 9.84% | 111,723,893 | 9.98% | 0.15 |
Developer | August 2024 | Percent | September 2024 | Percent | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
nginx | 37,946,892 | 19.54% | 37,814,329 | 19.50% | -0.04 |
Apache | 35,401,145 | 18.23% | 35,115,057 | 18.11% | -0.12 |
Cloudflare | 30,353,097 | 15.63% | 30,480,355 | 15.72% | 0.09 |
19,914,940 | 10.26% | 18,290,859 | 9.43% | -0.82 |
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Developer | August 2024 | Percent | September 2024 | Percent | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Cloudflare | 232,823 | 23.28% | 232,767 | 23.28% | -0.01 |
nginx | 202,769 | 20.28% | 202,880 | 20.29% | 0.01 |
Apache | 192,880 | 19.29% | 192,821 | 19.28% | -0.01 |
Microsoft | 44,580 | 4.46% | 44,538 | 4.45% | -0.00 |
Developer | August 2024 | Percent | September 2024 | Percent | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
nginx | 5,037,328 | 38.72% | 5,012,623 | 38.74% | 0.02 |
Apache | 3,194,165 | 24.55% | 3,136,798 | 24.24% | -0.31 |
Microsoft | 1,186,646 | 9.12% | 1,176,206 | 9.09% | -0.03 |
Developer | August 2024 | Percent | September 2024 | Percent | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Apache | 55,087,675 | 20.40% | 55,279,202 | 20.41% | 0.02 |
nginx | 51,825,561 | 19.19% | 51,328,311 | 18.96% | -0.23 |
OpenResty | 47,996,022 | 17.77% | 48,295,978 | 17.84% | 0.06 |
Cloudflare | 24,899,127 | 9.22% | 25,245,309 | 9.32% | 0.10 |
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