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In the December 2023 survey we received responses from 1,088,057,023 sites across 269,268,434 domains and 12,355,610 web-facing computers. This reflects a loss of 4.1 million sites, an increase of 238,593 domains, and a loss of 128,028 web-facing computers.
nginx experienced the largest loss of 4.5 million sites (-1.79%) this month, and now accounts for 22.5% of sites seen by Netcraft. Microsoft suffered the next largest loss, down by 2.5 million sites (-9.65%).
OpenResty remains the largest growing vendor, gaining 3.3 million sites (+3.64%) and increasing its market share to 8.71%. Second to OpenResty is Google, which gained 1.5 million sites (+2.65%).
[TABLE=centered]
[TR]
[TH]Developer[/TH]
[TH]November 2023[/TH]
[TH]Percent[/TH]
[TH]December 2023[/TH]
[TH]Percent[/TH]
[TH]Change[/TH]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]
[TD]248,343,154[/TD]
[TD]22.74%[/TD]
[TD]248,118,087[/TD]
[TD]22.80%[/TD]
[TD]0.06[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]
[TD]249,368,944[/TD]
[TD]22.83%[/TD]
[TD]244,903,710[/TD]
[TD]22.51%[/TD]
[TD]-0.32[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]
[TD]115,937,937[/TD]
[TD]10.62%[/TD]
[TD]113,499,479[/TD]
[TD]10.43%[/TD]
[TD]-0.18[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]
[TD]91,405,835[/TD]
[TD]8.37%[/TD]
[TD]94,737,403[/TD]
[TD]8.71%[/TD]
[TD]0.34[/TD]
[/TR]
[/TABLE]
[TABLE=centered]
[TR]
[TH]Developer[/TH]
[TH]November 2023[/TH]
[TH]Percent[/TH]
[TH]December 2023[/TH]
[TH]Percent[/TH]
[TH]Change[/TH]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]
[TD]40,080,759[/TD]
[TD]20.98%[/TD]
[TD]39,476,338[/TD]
[TD]20.84%[/TD]
[TD]-0.14[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]
[TD]36,927,632[/TD]
[TD]19.33%[/TD]
[TD]36,176,461[/TD]
[TD]19.10%[/TD]
[TD]-0.23[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]
[TD]23,035,498[/TD]
[TD]12.06%[/TD]
[TD]23,076,699[/TD]
[TD]12.18%[/TD]
[TD]0.12[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]
[TD]20,759,419[/TD]
[TD]10.87%[/TD]
[TD]20,543,756[/TD]
[TD]10.85%[/TD]
[TD]-0.02[/TD]
[/TR]
[/TABLE]
For more information see Active Sites.
[TABLE=centered]
[TR]
[TH]Developer[/TH]
[TH]November 2023[/TH]
[TH]Percent[/TH]
[TH]December 2023[/TH]
[TH]Percent[/TH]
[TH]Change[/TH]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]
[TD]222,400[/TD]
[TD]22.24%[/TD]
[TD]223,795[/TD]
[TD]22.38%[/TD]
[TD]0.14[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]
[TD]206,286[/TD]
[TD]20.63%[/TD]
[TD]207,158[/TD]
[TD]20.72%[/TD]
[TD]0.09[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]
[TD]204,504[/TD]
[TD]20.45%[/TD]
[TD]203,097[/TD]
[TD]20.31%[/TD]
[TD]-0.14[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]
[TD]48,019[/TD]
[TD]4.80%[/TD]
[TD]47,476[/TD]
[TD]4.75%[/TD]
[TD]-0.05[/TD]
[/TR]
[/TABLE]
[TABLE=centered]
[TR]
[TH]Developer[/TH]
[TH]November 2023[/TH]
[TH]Percent[/TH]
[TH]December 2023[/TH]
[TH]Percent[/TH]
[TH]Change[/TH]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]
[TD]4,904,964[/TD]
[TD]39.29%[/TD]
[TD]4,867,232[/TD]
[TD]39.39%[/TD]
[TD]0.10[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]
[TD]3,212,874[/TD]
[TD]25.74%[/TD]
[TD]3,183,227[/TD]
[TD]25.76%[/TD]
[TD]0.03[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]
[TD]1,205,605[/TD]
[TD]9.66%[/TD]
[TD]1,189,640[/TD]
[TD]9.63%[/TD]
[TD]-0.03[/TD]
[/TR]
[/TABLE]
[TABLE=centered]
[TR]
[TH]Developer[/TH]
[TH]November 2023[/TH]
[TH]Percent[/TH]
[TH]December 2023[/TH]
[TH]Percent[/TH]
[TH]Change[/TH]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]
[TD]60,355,172[/TD]
[TD]22.43%[/TD]
[TD]59,992,662[/TD]
[TD]22.28%[/TD]
[TD]-0.15[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]
[TD]59,528,582[/TD]
[TD]22.13%[/TD]
[TD]59,296,833[/TD]
[TD]22.02%[/TD]
[TD]-0.11[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]
[TD]44,175,095[/TD]
[TD]16.42%[/TD]
[TD]44,315,535[/TD]
[TD]16.46%[/TD]
[TD]0.04[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]
[TD]25,534,277[/TD]
[TD]9.49%[/TD]
[TD]25,967,952[/TD]
[TD]9.64%[/TD]
[TD]0.15[/TD]
[/TR]
[/TABLE]
In the December 2023 survey we received responses from 1,088,057,023 sites across 269,268,434 domains and 12,355,610 web-facing computers. This reflects a loss of 4.1 million sites, an increase of 238,593 domains, and a loss of 128,028 web-facing computers.
nginx experienced the largest loss of 4.5 million sites (-1.79%) this month, and now accounts for 22.5% of sites seen by Netcraft. Microsoft suffered the next largest loss, down by 2.5 million sites (-9.65%).
OpenResty remains the largest growing vendor, gaining 3.3 million sites (+3.64%) and increasing its market share to 8.71%. Second to OpenResty is Google, which gained 1.5 million sites (+2.65%).
Vendor news
- Apache Tomcat versions 9.0.83, 10.1.16, 11.0.0-M14, and 8.5.96 were released.
- OpenResty version 1.21.4.3 was released, patching a bug that made it vulnerable to HTTP/2 rapid reset attacks.
- AWS held its annual re:Invent conference, with announcements including:
- Amazon Q – an AI assistant for businesses
- Amazon Aurora Limitless Database – a distributed database that can scale to manage petabytes of data
- R8g – a new memory-optimized and energy-efficient EC2 instance
[TABLE=centered]
[TR]
[TH]Developer[/TH]
[TH]November 2023[/TH]
[TH]Percent[/TH]
[TH]December 2023[/TH]
[TH]Percent[/TH]
[TH]Change[/TH]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]
Apache
[/TD][TD]248,343,154[/TD]
[TD]22.74%[/TD]
[TD]248,118,087[/TD]
[TD]22.80%[/TD]
[TD]0.06[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]
nginx
[/TD][TD]249,368,944[/TD]
[TD]22.83%[/TD]
[TD]244,903,710[/TD]
[TD]22.51%[/TD]
[TD]-0.32[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]
Cloudflare
[/TD][TD]115,937,937[/TD]
[TD]10.62%[/TD]
[TD]113,499,479[/TD]
[TD]10.43%[/TD]
[TD]-0.18[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]
OpenResty
[/TD][TD]91,405,835[/TD]
[TD]8.37%[/TD]
[TD]94,737,403[/TD]
[TD]8.71%[/TD]
[TD]0.34[/TD]
[/TR]
[/TABLE]
[TABLE=centered]
[TR]
[TH]Developer[/TH]
[TH]November 2023[/TH]
[TH]Percent[/TH]
[TH]December 2023[/TH]
[TH]Percent[/TH]
[TH]Change[/TH]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]
Apache
[/TD][TD]40,080,759[/TD]
[TD]20.98%[/TD]
[TD]39,476,338[/TD]
[TD]20.84%[/TD]
[TD]-0.14[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]
nginx
[/TD][TD]36,927,632[/TD]
[TD]19.33%[/TD]
[TD]36,176,461[/TD]
[TD]19.10%[/TD]
[TD]-0.23[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]
Cloudflare
[/TD][TD]23,035,498[/TD]
[TD]12.06%[/TD]
[TD]23,076,699[/TD]
[TD]12.18%[/TD]
[TD]0.12[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]
Google
[/TD][TD]20,759,419[/TD]
[TD]10.87%[/TD]
[TD]20,543,756[/TD]
[TD]10.85%[/TD]
[TD]-0.02[/TD]
[/TR]
[/TABLE]
For more information see Active Sites.
[TABLE=centered]
[TR]
[TH]Developer[/TH]
[TH]November 2023[/TH]
[TH]Percent[/TH]
[TH]December 2023[/TH]
[TH]Percent[/TH]
[TH]Change[/TH]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]
Cloudflare
[/TD][TD]222,400[/TD]
[TD]22.24%[/TD]
[TD]223,795[/TD]
[TD]22.38%[/TD]
[TD]0.14[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]
nginx
[/TD][TD]206,286[/TD]
[TD]20.63%[/TD]
[TD]207,158[/TD]
[TD]20.72%[/TD]
[TD]0.09[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]
Apache
[/TD][TD]204,504[/TD]
[TD]20.45%[/TD]
[TD]203,097[/TD]
[TD]20.31%[/TD]
[TD]-0.14[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]
Microsoft
[/TD][TD]48,019[/TD]
[TD]4.80%[/TD]
[TD]47,476[/TD]
[TD]4.75%[/TD]
[TD]-0.05[/TD]
[/TR]
[/TABLE]
[TABLE=centered]
[TR]
[TH]Developer[/TH]
[TH]November 2023[/TH]
[TH]Percent[/TH]
[TH]December 2023[/TH]
[TH]Percent[/TH]
[TH]Change[/TH]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]
nginx
[/TD][TD]4,904,964[/TD]
[TD]39.29%[/TD]
[TD]4,867,232[/TD]
[TD]39.39%[/TD]
[TD]0.10[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]
Apache
[/TD][TD]3,212,874[/TD]
[TD]25.74%[/TD]
[TD]3,183,227[/TD]
[TD]25.76%[/TD]
[TD]0.03[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]
Microsoft
[/TD][TD]1,205,605[/TD]
[TD]9.66%[/TD]
[TD]1,189,640[/TD]
[TD]9.63%[/TD]
[TD]-0.03[/TD]
[/TR]
[/TABLE]
[TABLE=centered]
[TR]
[TH]Developer[/TH]
[TH]November 2023[/TH]
[TH]Percent[/TH]
[TH]December 2023[/TH]
[TH]Percent[/TH]
[TH]Change[/TH]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]
nginx
[/TD][TD]60,355,172[/TD]
[TD]22.43%[/TD]
[TD]59,992,662[/TD]
[TD]22.28%[/TD]
[TD]-0.15[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]
Apache
[/TD][TD]59,528,582[/TD]
[TD]22.13%[/TD]
[TD]59,296,833[/TD]
[TD]22.02%[/TD]
[TD]-0.11[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]
OpenResty
[/TD][TD]44,175,095[/TD]
[TD]16.42%[/TD]
[TD]44,315,535[/TD]
[TD]16.46%[/TD]
[TD]0.04[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]
Cloudflare
[/TD][TD]25,534,277[/TD]
[TD]9.49%[/TD]
[TD]25,967,952[/TD]
[TD]9.64%[/TD]
[TD]0.15[/TD]
[/TR]
[/TABLE]