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In the January 2024 survey we received responses from 1,079,154,539 sites across 270,447,456 domains and 12,337,710 web-facing computers. This reflects a loss of 8.9 million sites, a gain of 1.2 million domains, and a loss of 17,900 web-facing computers.
nginx saw the largest increase of 5.6 million sites (+2.29%) this month. Its market share now stands at 23.21% (+0.71pp). Cloudflare and OpenResty also experienced strong growth this month, gaining 5.1 million (+4.52%) and 3.7 million sites (+3.86%) respectively.
Apache saw the largest loss of 24.8 million sites (-9.98%), reducing its market share to 20.70% (-2.11pp). LiteSpeed lost 1.2 million sites (-2.25%), slightly reducing its market share by 0.07pp to 4.63%.
[TABLE=centered]
[TR]
[TH]Developer[/TH]
[TH]December 2023[/TH]
[TH]Percent[/TH]
[TH]January 2024[/TH]
[TH]Percent[/TH]
[TH]Change[/TH]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]
[TD]244,903,710[/TD]
[TD]22.51%[/TD]
[TD]250,509,224[/TD]
[TD]23.21%[/TD]
[TD]0.71[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]
[TD]248,118,087[/TD]
[TD]22.80%[/TD]
[TD]223,346,407[/TD]
[TD]20.70%[/TD]
[TD]-2.11[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]
[TD]113,499,479[/TD]
[TD]10.43%[/TD]
[TD]118,627,424[/TD]
[TD]10.99%[/TD]
[TD]0.56[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]
[TD]94,737,403[/TD]
[TD]8.71%[/TD]
[TD]98,390,136[/TD]
[TD]9.12%[/TD]
[TD]0.41[/TD]
[/TR]
[/TABLE]
[TABLE=centered]
[TR]
[TH]Developer[/TH]
[TH]December 2023[/TH]
[TH]Percent[/TH]
[TH]January 2024[/TH]
[TH]Percent[/TH]
[TH]Change[/TH]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]
[TD]39,476,338[/TD]
[TD]20.84%[/TD]
[TD]39,401,334[/TD]
[TD]20.48%[/TD]
[TD]-0.36[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]
[TD]36,176,461[/TD]
[TD]19.10%[/TD]
[TD]35,591,558[/TD]
[TD]18.50%[/TD]
[TD]-0.60[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]
[TD]23,076,699[/TD]
[TD]12.18%[/TD]
[TD]25,731,404[/TD]
[TD]13.38%[/TD]
[TD]1.19[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]
[TD]20,543,756[/TD]
[TD]10.85%[/TD]
[TD]20,010,860[/TD]
[TD]10.40%[/TD]
[TD]-0.44[/TD]
[/TR]
[/TABLE]
For more information see Active Sites.
[TABLE=centered]
[TR]
[TH]Developer[/TH]
[TH]December 2023[/TH]
[TH]Percent[/TH]
[TH]January 2024[/TH]
[TH]Percent[/TH]
[TH]Change[/TH]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]
[TD]223,795[/TD]
[TD]22.38%[/TD]
[TD]224,091[/TD]
[TD]22.41%[/TD]
[TD]0.03[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]
[TD]207,158[/TD]
[TD]20.72%[/TD]
[TD]207,074[/TD]
[TD]20.71%[/TD]
[TD]-0.01[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]
[TD]203,097[/TD]
[TD]20.31%[/TD]
[TD]202,256[/TD]
[TD]20.23%[/TD]
[TD]-0.08[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]
[TD]47,476[/TD]
[TD]4.75%[/TD]
[TD]46,995[/TD]
[TD]4.70%[/TD]
[TD]-0.05[/TD]
[/TR]
[/TABLE]
[TABLE=centered]
[TR]
[TH]Developer[/TH]
[TH]December 2023[/TH]
[TH]Percent[/TH]
[TH]January 2024[/TH]
[TH]Percent[/TH]
[TH]Change[/TH]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]
[TD]4,867,232[/TD]
[TD]39.39%[/TD]
[TD]4,856,088[/TD]
[TD]39.36%[/TD]
[TD]-0.03[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]
[TD]3,183,227[/TD]
[TD]25.76%[/TD]
[TD]3,172,682[/TD]
[TD]25.72%[/TD]
[TD]-0.05[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]
[TD]1,189,640[/TD]
[TD]9.63%[/TD]
[TD]1,179,160[/TD]
[TD]9.56%[/TD]
[TD]-0.07[/TD]
[/TR]
[/TABLE]
[TABLE=centered]
[TR]
[TH]Developer[/TH]
[TH]December 2023[/TH]
[TH]Percent[/TH]
[TH]January 2024[/TH]
[TH]Percent[/TH]
[TH]Change[/TH]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]
[TD]59,992,662[/TD]
[TD]22.28%[/TD]
[TD]59,970,194[/TD]
[TD]22.17%[/TD]
[TD]-0.11[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]
[TD]59,296,833[/TD]
[TD]22.02%[/TD]
[TD]58,971,448[/TD]
[TD]21.81%[/TD]
[TD]-0.22[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]
[TD]44,315,535[/TD]
[TD]16.46%[/TD]
[TD]44,899,651[/TD]
[TD]16.60%[/TD]
[TD]0.14[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]
[TD]25,967,952[/TD]
[TD]9.64%[/TD]
[TD]26,361,454[/TD]
[TD]9.75%[/TD]
[TD]0.10[/TD]
[/TR]
[/TABLE]
In the January 2024 survey we received responses from 1,079,154,539 sites across 270,447,456 domains and 12,337,710 web-facing computers. This reflects a loss of 8.9 million sites, a gain of 1.2 million domains, and a loss of 17,900 web-facing computers.
nginx saw the largest increase of 5.6 million sites (+2.29%) this month. Its market share now stands at 23.21% (+0.71pp). Cloudflare and OpenResty also experienced strong growth this month, gaining 5.1 million (+4.52%) and 3.7 million sites (+3.86%) respectively.
Apache saw the largest loss of 24.8 million sites (-9.98%), reducing its market share to 20.70% (-2.11pp). LiteSpeed lost 1.2 million sites (-2.25%), slightly reducing its market share by 0.07pp to 4.63%.
Vendor news
- Apache Tomcat versions 8.5.98, 9.0.85, 10.1.18, and 11.0.0-M16 were released on 9th January 2024.
- OpenResty 1.25.3.1 was released on 9th January 2024. It adds support for HTTP/3 and PCRE2.
- Microsoft announced general availability of virtual network encryption in Azure on 17th January 2024, which encrypts customer traffic between Azure datacenters.
- Amazon opened a new AWS region,
ca-west-1, in Calgary, Canada on 20th December 2023.
[TABLE=centered]
[TR]
[TH]Developer[/TH]
[TH]December 2023[/TH]
[TH]Percent[/TH]
[TH]January 2024[/TH]
[TH]Percent[/TH]
[TH]Change[/TH]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]
nginx
[/TD][TD]244,903,710[/TD]
[TD]22.51%[/TD]
[TD]250,509,224[/TD]
[TD]23.21%[/TD]
[TD]0.71[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]
Apache
[/TD][TD]248,118,087[/TD]
[TD]22.80%[/TD]
[TD]223,346,407[/TD]
[TD]20.70%[/TD]
[TD]-2.11[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]
Cloudflare
[/TD][TD]113,499,479[/TD]
[TD]10.43%[/TD]
[TD]118,627,424[/TD]
[TD]10.99%[/TD]
[TD]0.56[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]
OpenResty
[/TD][TD]94,737,403[/TD]
[TD]8.71%[/TD]
[TD]98,390,136[/TD]
[TD]9.12%[/TD]
[TD]0.41[/TD]
[/TR]
[/TABLE]
[TABLE=centered]
[TR]
[TH]Developer[/TH]
[TH]December 2023[/TH]
[TH]Percent[/TH]
[TH]January 2024[/TH]
[TH]Percent[/TH]
[TH]Change[/TH]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]
Apache
[/TD][TD]39,476,338[/TD]
[TD]20.84%[/TD]
[TD]39,401,334[/TD]
[TD]20.48%[/TD]
[TD]-0.36[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]
nginx
[/TD][TD]36,176,461[/TD]
[TD]19.10%[/TD]
[TD]35,591,558[/TD]
[TD]18.50%[/TD]
[TD]-0.60[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]
Cloudflare
[/TD][TD]23,076,699[/TD]
[TD]12.18%[/TD]
[TD]25,731,404[/TD]
[TD]13.38%[/TD]
[TD]1.19[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]
Google
[/TD][TD]20,543,756[/TD]
[TD]10.85%[/TD]
[TD]20,010,860[/TD]
[TD]10.40%[/TD]
[TD]-0.44[/TD]
[/TR]
[/TABLE]
For more information see Active Sites.
[TABLE=centered]
[TR]
[TH]Developer[/TH]
[TH]December 2023[/TH]
[TH]Percent[/TH]
[TH]January 2024[/TH]
[TH]Percent[/TH]
[TH]Change[/TH]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]
Cloudflare
[/TD][TD]223,795[/TD]
[TD]22.38%[/TD]
[TD]224,091[/TD]
[TD]22.41%[/TD]
[TD]0.03[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]
nginx
[/TD][TD]207,158[/TD]
[TD]20.72%[/TD]
[TD]207,074[/TD]
[TD]20.71%[/TD]
[TD]-0.01[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]
Apache
[/TD][TD]203,097[/TD]
[TD]20.31%[/TD]
[TD]202,256[/TD]
[TD]20.23%[/TD]
[TD]-0.08[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]
Microsoft
[/TD][TD]47,476[/TD]
[TD]4.75%[/TD]
[TD]46,995[/TD]
[TD]4.70%[/TD]
[TD]-0.05[/TD]
[/TR]
[/TABLE]
[TABLE=centered]
[TR]
[TH]Developer[/TH]
[TH]December 2023[/TH]
[TH]Percent[/TH]
[TH]January 2024[/TH]
[TH]Percent[/TH]
[TH]Change[/TH]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]
nginx
[/TD][TD]4,867,232[/TD]
[TD]39.39%[/TD]
[TD]4,856,088[/TD]
[TD]39.36%[/TD]
[TD]-0.03[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]
Apache
[/TD][TD]3,183,227[/TD]
[TD]25.76%[/TD]
[TD]3,172,682[/TD]
[TD]25.72%[/TD]
[TD]-0.05[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]
Microsoft
[/TD][TD]1,189,640[/TD]
[TD]9.63%[/TD]
[TD]1,179,160[/TD]
[TD]9.56%[/TD]
[TD]-0.07[/TD]
[/TR]
[/TABLE]
[TABLE=centered]
[TR]
[TH]Developer[/TH]
[TH]December 2023[/TH]
[TH]Percent[/TH]
[TH]January 2024[/TH]
[TH]Percent[/TH]
[TH]Change[/TH]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]
nginx
[/TD][TD]59,992,662[/TD]
[TD]22.28%[/TD]
[TD]59,970,194[/TD]
[TD]22.17%[/TD]
[TD]-0.11[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]
Apache
[/TD][TD]59,296,833[/TD]
[TD]22.02%[/TD]
[TD]58,971,448[/TD]
[TD]21.81%[/TD]
[TD]-0.22[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]
OpenResty
[/TD][TD]44,315,535[/TD]
[TD]16.46%[/TD]
[TD]44,899,651[/TD]
[TD]16.60%[/TD]
[TD]0.14[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]
Cloudflare
[/TD][TD]25,967,952[/TD]
[TD]9.64%[/TD]
[TD]26,361,454[/TD]
[TD]9.75%[/TD]
[TD]0.10[/TD]
[/TR]
[/TABLE]