February 2025 Web Server Survey

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In the February 2025 survey we received responses from 1,180,650,484 sites across 274,656,941 domains and 13,480,350 web-facing computers. This reflects an increase of 19.2 million sites, 1.3 million domains, and 56,361 web-facing computers.

nginx made the largest gain of 12.5 million sites (+5.51%), now accounting for 20.3% (+0.74pp) of sites seen by Netcraft. Cloudflare experienced the next largest gain of 3.9 million sites (+2.68%).

OpenResty suffered the largest loss this month, reducing its market share to 2.99%. Apache experienced the next largest loss of 4.5 million sites.

Vendor news​

• Apache httpd 2.4.63 was released on January 23rd, primarily containing bug fixes.
• F5 announced that the nginx documentation was open-sourced on January 28th, hosted in a new GitHub repository. F5 also launched the new NGINX Community Forum on February 4th.
• nginx 1.27.4 was released on February 5th, fixing a vulnerability that allowed SSL client certificate validation to be bypassed in certain conditions. It also adds support for caching SSL certificates loaded dynamically based on a variable like the server name.
• Apache Tomcat versions 9.0.100, 10.1.36, and 11.0.4 were released on February 17th and 18th.
• LiteSpeed 6.3.2 was released on February 18th, fixing hash collision vulnerability in its QUIC implementation. The release also contains a range of features and bug fixes, including improvements to LiteSpeed’s anti-denial of service attack support.

Developer	January 2025	Percent	February 2025	Percent	Change
227,636,798	19.60%	240,182,690	20.34%	0.74
196,934,678	16.96%	192,401,922	16.30%	-0.66
146,502,560	12.61%	150,432,756	12.74%	0.13
61,978,277	5.34%	62,745,061	5.31%	-0.02

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Google​

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Developer	January 2025	Percent	February 2025	Percent	Change
36,827,229	18.89%	36,179,069	18.38%	-0.51
32,122,224	16.48%	34,245,606	17.40%	0.92
33,614,146	17.24%	32,549,711	16.54%	-0.70
18,317,836	9.40%	18,744,996	9.52%	0.13

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Apache​

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Google​

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For more information see Active Sites.

Developer	January 2025	Percent	February 2025	Percent	Change
237,838	23.78%	229,874	22.99%	-0.80
198,786	19.88%	201,058	20.11%	0.23
177,682	17.77%	178,287	17.83%	0.06
41,646	4.16%	41,612	4.16%	-0.00

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Apache​

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Microsoft​

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Developer	January 2025	Percent	February 2025	Percent	Change
5,307,532	39.54%	5,319,894	39.46%	-0.07
3,088,215	23.01%	3,079,017	22.84%	-0.16
1,166,024	8.69%	1,166,631	8.65%	-0.03

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Apache​

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Microsoft​

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Developer	January 2025	Percent	February 2025	Percent	Change
53,044,316	19.41%	51,860,896	18.88%	-0.52
50,176,503	18.36%	50,684,106	18.45%	0.10
27,715,054	10.14%	28,694,732	10.45%	0.31
11,135,629	4.07%	11,146,952	4.06%	-0.02

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Apache​

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nginx​

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Cloudflare​

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LiteSpeed​

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