April 2023 Web Server Survey

In nan April 2023 study we received responses from 1,115,422,029 sites crossed 272,511,659 domains and 12,089,407 web-facing computers. This reflects a summation of 3.2 cardinal domains but a nonaccomplishment of 596,923 sites and 16,775 web-facing computers.

nginx knowledgeable ample maturation for some sites and domains this month. In our April survey, we saw 292.5 cardinal sites moving nginx, an summation of 3.0 cardinal since March (+1.04%), and 74.2 cardinal domains, an summation of 1.6 cardinal (+2.23%). It now accounts for 26.23% of sites (+0.28pp) and 27.25% of domains (+0.27pp).

LiteSpeed had nan largest nonaccomplishment by sites, dropping down to 56.2 cardinal sites (-5.43%). This takes its stock of sites to 5.04% from 5.33% (-0.29pp). Despite this, its number of domains increased, reaching 9.4 cardinal (+1.43%).

OpenResty besides saw important losses this month, totalling a nonaccomplishment of 1.8 cardinal sites (-2.07%) and 232,493 domains (-0.60%). OpenResty now accounts for 7.78% of sites and 14.1% of domains seen by Netcraft, down by 0.16pp and 0.26pp respectively.

In opposition to its capacity successful caller months, Apache gained some sites and domains this month: its usage accrued by 1.1 cardinal sites (+0.47%) and 1.8 cardinal domains (+3.07%). Apache now accounts for 20.7% of sites (+0.11p) and 21.8% of domains (+0.40pp). Apache continues to lead successful our active sites metric – which only counts sites pinch chopped contented – wherever it holds a 20.79% share, up of nginx’s 19.07%.

The marketplace stock wrong nan apical cardinal sites was comparatively unchangeable this month. nginx had nan biggest drop, losing 688 sites (-0.32%), and Cloudflare had nan biggest increase, gaining 711 sites (+0.33%). Cloudflare continues to lead successful nan apical cardinal sites, holding a 21.69% marketplace share, 0.32 percent points up of nginx.

In position of web-facing computers, nginx led this period pinch a 6,541 summation (+0.14%), whereas Microsoft saw nan largest alteration pinch a 20,360 nonaccomplishment (-1.66%). The standings for marketplace stock by machine count are now: 38.88% nginx (+0.11pp), 27.02% Apache (+0.01pp) and 9.99% Microsoft (-0.15pp).

Vendor news

• nginx 1.23.4 was released connected 28th March 2023. It enables TLSv1.3 by default.
• njs 0.7.2 was released connected 10th April 2023. It includes a caller compression module ‘zlib’, providing support for nan DEFLATE compression algorithm.
• Apache 2.4.57 was released connected 6th April 2023, containing insignificant bug fixes.
• LiteSpeed 6.1.1 was released connected 12th April 2023.

DeveloperMarch 2023PercentApril 2023PercentChange

nginx	289,510,060	25.94%	292,527,297	26.23%	0.28
Apache	229,628,183	20.58%	230,706,481	20.68%	0.11
Cloudflare	113,533,078	10.17%	113,441,471	10.17%	-0.00
OpenResty	88,587,110	7.94%	86,755,371	7.78%	-0.16

DeveloperMarch 2023PercentApril 2023PercentChange

Apache	41,297,783	20.52%	41,803,177	20.79%	0.27
nginx	38,122,247	18.94%	38,330,465	19.07%	0.12
Cloudflare	22,785,563	11.32%	22,744,158	11.31%	-0.01
Google	19,904,123	9.89%	20,281,694	10.09%	0.20

For much accusation spot Active Sites

DeveloperMarch 2023PercentApril 2023PercentChange

Cloudflare	216,170	21.62%	216,881	21.69%	0.07
nginx	213,715	21.37%	213,027	21.30%	-0.07
Apache	211,839	21.18%	212,011	21.20%	0.02
Microsoft	51,501	5.15%	51,202	5.12%	-0.03

DeveloperMarch 2023PercentApril 2023PercentChange

nginx	4,693,648	38.77%	4,700,189	38.88%	0.11
Apache	3,269,922	27.01%	3,266,881	27.02%	0.01
Microsoft	1,228,232	10.15%	1,207,872	9.99%	-0.15

DeveloperMarch 2023PercentApril 2023PercentChange

nginx	72,630,975	26.97%	74,249,254	27.25%	0.27
Apache	57,768,572	21.45%	59,541,413	21.85%	0.40
OpenResty	38,674,627	14.36%	38,442,134	14.11%	-0.26
Cloudflare	25,796,120	9.58%	25,626,994	9.40%	-0.18