August 2022 Web Server Survey

In the August 2022 survey we received responses from 1,135,075,578 sites crossed 271,740,771 unsocial domains and 12,365,527 web-facing computers. This reflects a nonaccomplishment of 4.4 cardinal sites, but a summation of 12,212 domains and 24,355 computers.

OpenResty saw the astir important alteration successful web-facing computers, with a summation of 10,138 (6.1%). Furthermore, 2.8 million (3.1%) other sites were seen since July, with a tiny nonaccomplishment of 466,322 domains (1.2%). This continues the trend of OpenResty’s accelerated maturation successful web-facing computers (46% since August 2021) portion the fig of domains and sites has not grown successful tandem, remaining astir static implicit the period.

nginx continues to beryllium the astir commonly utilized web server and saw humble gains of 25,053 domains (0.03%) and 13,481 computers (0.3%). However, we experienced a important simplification successful the fig of nginx-hosted sites responding to our requests this month, with a nonaccomplishment of implicit 15 million. This represents astir 4% of sites hosted utilizing nginx successful July.

Continuing the inclination of beardown maturation implicit the past 2 months, Cloudflare gained an further 4.4 cardinal sites (6%) and 1.1 cardinal domains (4.7%). This gives Cloudflare a full marketplace stock of 6.8% of sites and 9% of domains, an increase of 0.4pp connected some metrics since July. Cloudflare besides had the strongest maturation amongst the apical cardinal busiest sites, gaining 0.25pp, thereby holding a 20.51% marketplace share.

Apache’s presumption arsenic the astir commonly utilized web server for the apical cardinal busiest sites continues to erode, with a nonaccomplishment of 0.19pp this month. nginx continues to summation marketplace share, up 0.07pp. If this inclination continues, nginx volition overtake Apache in the abbreviated term, and successful the agelong term, Cloudflare volition overtake some of its rivals.

Vendor news

• nginx reaffirmed its commitment to the unfastened root community successful this year’s roadmap, with a greater absorption connected modernising its assemblage absorption attack and optimising extremity developer experiences.
• Lighttpd 1.4.66 was released connected 7 August 2022, featuring a scope of bug fixes.
• Apache Tomcat 8.5.82 was released connected 13 August 2022. The bulk of changes were minor, however, the merchandise includes a mitigation for an XSS vulnerability successful illustration codification distributed with Tomcat (CVE-2022-34305).
• Cloudflare announced the availability of Weighted Pools for its Load Balancer product, which allows for assigning weights to root servers to administer requests non-uniformly.
• LiteSpeed Web Server 6.1 RC1 Dev was released connected 17 August 2022. This is the latest mentation successful the LSWS 6.1 watercourse and includes enactment for triggering reCAPTCHA successful its mod_security engine, and respective bugfixes.

DeveloperJuly 2022PercentAugust 2022PercentChange

nginx	343,354,785	30.13%	328,204,211	28.91%	-1.22
Apache	258,219,193	22.66%	256,787,976	22.62%	-0.04
OpenResty	89,805,020	7.88%	92,609,414	8.16%	0.28
Cloudflare	73,162,681	6.42%	77,538,226	6.83%	0.41

DeveloperJuly 2022PercentAugust 2022PercentChange

Apache	44,643,002	22.66%	44,132,533	22.20%	-0.46
nginx	39,859,338	20.23%	39,767,854	20.00%	-0.23
Cloudflare	20,587,122	10.45%	21,302,285	10.71%	0.27
Google	19,193,202	9.74%	19,024,256	9.57%	-0.17

For much accusation spot Active Sites

DeveloperJuly 2022PercentAugust 2022PercentChange

Apache	223,267	22.33%	221,395	22.14%	-0.19
nginx	215,458	21.55%	216,175	21.62%	0.07
Cloudflare	202,621	20.26%	205,130	20.51%	0.25
Microsoft	55,890	5.59%	55,626	5.56%	-0.03

DeveloperJuly 2022PercentAugust 2022PercentChange

nginx	4,756,607	38.54%	4,770,130	38.58%	0.03
Apache	3,446,872	27.93%	3,423,697	27.69%	-0.24
Microsoft	1,345,837	10.91%	1,331,052	10.76%	-0.14

DeveloperJuly 2022PercentAugust 2022PercentChange

nginx	75,038,110	27.62%	75,063,163	27.62%	0.01
Apache	61,290,015	22.56%	60,875,280	22.40%	-0.15
OpenResty	40,153,804	14.78%	39,687,482	14.60%	-0.17
Cloudflare	23,327,300	8.58%	24,416,693	8.99%	0.40