February 2023 Web Server Survey

6 months ago

In nan February 2023 study we received responses from 1,127,630,293 sites crossed 270,727,775 unsocial domains, and 12,142,793 web-facing computers. This reflects a nonaccomplishment of 4,638,508 sites, 240,148 domains and 13,907 computers.

OpenResty had nan largest percent maturation successful sites this month: it is now utilized by 95,176,082 sites, an summation of 2,884,258 (+3.13%) since past month. This brings its stock of sites to 8.44%, up from 8.15% (+0.29pp). OpenResty’s marketplace stock by domain count remained stable, pinch a flimsy 0.01pp summation this period - its mini nonaccomplishment of 14,039 domains was counteracted by nan greater nonaccomplishment of domains crossed each vendors this month.

Cloudflare continues to grow, gaining 1,669,867 sites (+1.49%) and 500,432 domains (+1.89%) since our January survey. Following Cloudflare becoming nan astir commonly utilized web server vendor wrong nan apical cardinal sites past month, it has started to cement its position: gaining 672 sites (+0.31%) of nan apical cardinal sites this month, giving it a 21.71% marketplace stock (+0.07pp).

Meanwhile, Apache mislaid 626 sites (-0.29%) successful nan apical cardinal sites, bringing its stock to 21.34% (-0.06pp). Outside of nan apical million, Apache saw much important losses, netting a alteration of 2,593,754 sites (-1.11%) and 434,071 domains (-0.74%).

Similarly to Apache, nginx mislaid a important number of domains this month, being down by 483,620 domains since our January study (-0.66%). However, nginx maintained its wide tract count and moreover gained 219 of nan apical cardinal busiest sites, giving it a 21.23% stock (+0.02pp) wrong nan apical cardinal sites.

The largest nonaccomplishment successful sites for a awesome vendor this period comes from Microsoft, which is down 2,866,173 sites (-9.59%) and 74,094 domains (-0.98%). This continues its accordant downwards inclination since December 2018.