September 2026 Web Server Survey
In the September 2026 survey we received responses from 1,470,435,351 sites across 323,147,961 domains and 15,463,120 web-facing computers. This reflects an increase of 29.8 million sites, 11.3 million domains, and 208,114 web-facing computers.
nginx experienced the largest gain of 12.5 million sites (+5.87%) this month, and now accounts for 15.3% (+0.55pp) of sites seen by Netcraft. OpenResty made the next largest gain of 5.8 million sites (+4.56%).
Google experienced the largest loss of 19.1 million sites (-23.56%) this month, reducing its market share to 4.23% (-1.42pp). Apache suffered the next largest loss, down by 1.2 million sites (-0.69%).
Developer | August 2026 | Percent | September 2026 | Percent | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Cloudflare | 260,388,592 | 18.07% | 266,160,479 | 18.10% | 0.03 |
nginx | 212,877,572 | 14.78% | 225,366,509 | 15.33% | 0.55 |
Apache | 171,188,269 | 11.88% | 170,006,920 | 11.56% | -0.32 |
OpenResty | 126,918,171 | 8.81% | 132,702,983 | 9.02% | 0.21 |
Developer | August 2026 | Percent | September 2026 | Percent | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Cloudflare | 53,790,053 | 24.21% | 55,639,579 | 25.57% | 1.37 |
nginx | 31,465,197 | 14.16% | 34,649,380 | 15.93% | 1.77 |
Apache | 26,599,023 | 11.97% | 26,403,710 | 12.14% | 0.17 |
LiteSpeed | 12,588,629 | 5.67% | 12,411,998 | 5.70% | 0.04 |
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Developer | August 2026 | Percent | September 2026 | Percent | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Cloudflare | 286,059 | 28.61% | 291,038 | 29.10% | 0.50 |
nginx | 198,621 | 19.86% | 196,514 | 19.65% | -0.21 |
Apache | 152,087 | 15.21% | 150,121 | 15.01% | -0.20 |
LiteSpeed | 36,196 | 3.62% | 36,604 | 3.66% | 0.04 |
Developer | August 2026 | Percent | September 2026 | Percent | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
nginx | 6,694,150 | 43.88% | 6,803,521 | 44.00% | 0.12 |
Apache | 2,769,165 | 18.15% | 2,737,362 | 17.70% | -0.45 |
Microsoft | 844,789 | 5.54% | 836,263 | 5.41% | -0.13 |
Developer | August 2026 | Percent | September 2026 | Percent | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
OpenResty | 49,799,840 | 15.97% | 57,881,995 | 17.91% | 1.94 |
nginx | 52,744,078 | 16.91% | 56,342,998 | 17.44% | 0.52 |
Cloudflare | 44,386,442 | 14.23% | 46,044,142 | 14.25% | 0.02 |
Apache | 45,420,290 | 14.56% | 45,038,770 | 13.94% | -0.63 |
