June 2018 Web Server Survey

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In the June 2018 survey we received responses from 1,630,322,579 sites, 217,776,658 unique domains, and 7,614,764 web-facing computers. This reflects a gain of 45 million sites and 162,000 web-facing computers, but a loss of 98,800 domains.

Apache currently leads by most metrics, with the largest market share of domains (35.23%), active sites (41.13%), computers (40.28%), and top million sites (35.54%). However, it continues to gradually decline in market share, losing out to continued growth elsewhere, particularly by nginx. Most of Apache's figures fell this month, with the exception of a small 35k (+1.16%) rise in web-facing computers. Despite this gain in web-facing computers, its share fell slightly, by 0.4 percentage points.

The only metric where Apache does not retain the lead is web sites: Microsoft's server software has held the lead since July 2016. Although Microsoft web servers now account for 601 million sites, or 36.9%, relatively few of these are active sites. Microsoft servers account for 11.8 million active sites, a 6.62% share of the entire active site market, placing it behind both Apache and nginx. Internet Information Services (IIS) accounts for 97.8% of all domains using Microsoft server products, with Microsoft's light-weight HTTPAPI making up just 2.2% of Microsoft's domains. Only 8.0% of the web-facing computers running Microsoft IIS run the latest version available, IIS 10.0, released in October 2016 as part of Windows Server 2016. A greater proportion, 10.1%, are still running IIS 6.0, which reached end-of-life along with Windows Server 2003 almost 3 years ago.

nginx continues to rise in popularity, growing faster than its Apache and Microsoft competitors in all metrics except web sites. Although nginx's 23.35% domain share is still behind Microsoft's 25.73%, its continued growth has it on track to overtake Microsoft in a few months, and potentially even bring Apache within its sights in a couple of years. nginx holds second place in terms of active sites (21.64%), computers (25.84%), and the number of sites within the top one million (24.68%). This month, nginx had the largest gains in all metrics with the exception of overall web sites. Apart from its original distribution, nginx also comes in two other popular variants: Openresty, which is based on an nginx core with additional Lua-based modules, was seen on 2.0 million domains this month; and Tengine, an nginx fork maintained by Chinese ecommerce site Taobao, was seen on 1.2 million domains.

The LiteSpeed web server, which currently accounts for 1.27% of all domains, has also been slowly but steadily gaining adopters. It experienced the 3rd largest increase in domains this month, gaining 125k, giving it a larger relative increase than Apache, Microsoft, or nginx servers. LiteSpeed has a slightly higher market share of 1.50% of the top million sites and 1.86% of all active sites.

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DeveloperMay 2018PercentJune 2018PercentChange
[TD]
Microsoft​
[/TD][TD]
518,826,524
[/TD][TD]
32.73%
[/TD][TD]
601,258,605
[/TD][TD]
36.88%
[/TD][TD]
4.14
[/TD]​
[TD]
Apache​
[/TD][TD]
396,463,723
[/TD][TD]
25.01%
[/TD][TD]
361,165,378
[/TD][TD]
22.15%
[/TD][TD]
-2.86
[/TD]​
[TD]
nginx​
[/TD][TD]
359,163,599
[/TD][TD]
22.66%
[/TD][TD]
336,529,382
[/TD][TD]
20.64%
[/TD][TD]
-2.02
[/TD]​
[TD]
Google​
[/TD][TD]
22,427,752
[/TD][TD]
1.42%
[/TD][TD]
22,946,307
[/TD][TD]
1.41%
[/TD][TD]
-0.01
[/TD]​
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DeveloperMay 2018PercentJune 2018PercentChange
[TD]
Apache​
[/TD][TD]
73,936,582
[/TD][TD]
42.04%
[/TD][TD]
73,047,202
[/TD][TD]
41.13%
[/TD][TD]
-0.91
[/TD]​
[TD]
nginx​
[/TD][TD]
37,427,068
[/TD][TD]
21.28%
[/TD][TD]
38,430,049
[/TD][TD]
21.64%
[/TD][TD]
0.36
[/TD]​
[TD]
Google​
[/TD][TD]
14,279,471
[/TD][TD]
8.12%
[/TD][TD]
14,525,401
[/TD][TD]
8.18%
[/TD][TD]
0.06
[/TD]​
[TD]
Microsoft​
[/TD][TD]
11,897,685
[/TD][TD]
6.76%
[/TD][TD]
11,757,813
[/TD][TD]
6.62%
[/TD][TD]
-0.14
[/TD]​

For more information see Active Sites

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DeveloperMay 2018PercentJune 2018PercentChange
[TD]
Apache​
[/TD][TD]
360,234
[/TD][TD]
36.02%
[/TD][TD]
355,382
[/TD][TD]
35.54%
[/TD][TD]
-0.49
[/TD]​
[TD]
nginx​
[/TD][TD]
242,826
[/TD][TD]
24.28%
[/TD][TD]
246,812
[/TD][TD]
24.68%
[/TD][TD]
0.40
[/TD]​
[TD]
Microsoft​
[/TD][TD]
92,776
[/TD][TD]
9.28%
[/TD][TD]
93,092
[/TD][TD]
9.31%
[/TD][TD]
0.03
[/TD]​
[TD]
LiteSpeed​
[/TD][TD]
14,777
[/TD][TD]
1.48%
[/TD][TD]
15,019
[/TD][TD]
1.50%
[/TD][TD]
0.02
[/TD]​
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DeveloperMay 2018PercentJune 2018PercentChange
[TD]
Apache​
[/TD][TD]
3,032,131
[/TD][TD]
40.69%
[/TD][TD]
3,067,313
[/TD][TD]
40.28%
[/TD][TD]
-0.40
[/TD]​
[TD]
nginx​
[/TD][TD]
1,887,507
[/TD][TD]
25.33%
[/TD][TD]
1,967,886
[/TD][TD]
25.84%
[/TD][TD]
0.52
[/TD]​
[TD]
Microsoft​
[/TD][TD]
1,525,059
[/TD][TD]
20.46%
[/TD][TD]
1,543,179
[/TD][TD]
20.27%
[/TD][TD]
-0.20
[/TD]​
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DeveloperMay 2018PercentJune 2018PercentChange
[TD]
Apache​
[/TD][TD]
77,830,157
[/TD][TD]
35.72%
[/TD][TD]
76,721,597
[/TD][TD]
35.23%
[/TD][TD]
-0.49
[/TD]​
[TD]
Microsoft​
[/TD][TD]
56,785,102
[/TD][TD]
26.06%
[/TD][TD]
56,030,491
[/TD][TD]
25.73%
[/TD][TD]
-0.33
[/TD]​
[TD]
nginx​
[/TD][TD]
49,440,862
[/TD][TD]
22.69%
[/TD][TD]
50,860,718
[/TD][TD]
23.35%
[/TD][TD]
0.66
[/TD]​
[TD]
Google​
[/TD][TD]
1,913,702
[/TD][TD]
0.88%
[/TD][TD]
1,909,658
[/TD][TD]
0.88%
[/TD][TD]
-0.00
[/TD]​

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