August 2024 Web Server Survey

In the August 2024 survey we received responses from 1,107,785,375 sites across 270,065,795 domains and 13,011,016 web-facing computers. This reflects an increase of 3.6 million sites, a loss of 364,061 domains, and an increase of 119,600 web-facing computers.

Cloudflare experienced the largest gain of 2.7 million sites (+2.14%) this month, and now accounts for 11.5% (+0.20pp) of sites seen by Netcraft. Google made the next largest gain of 1.2 million sites (+2.11%).

OpenResty experienced the largest loss of 12.1 million sites (-10.02%) this month, reducing its market share to 9.84% (-1.13pp). nginx suffered the next largest loss, down by 5.6 million sites (-2.45%).

Vendor news

August 2024 Web Server SurveyAugust 2024 Web Server Survey
Web server market shareWeb server market share
Developer July 2024 Percent August 2024 Percent Change
nginx 228,626,175 20.71% 223,025,645 20.13% -0.57
Apache 208,999,470 18.93% 203,825,341 18.40% -0.53
Cloudflare 124,366,036 11.26% 127,028,522 11.47% 0.20
OpenResty 121,083,375 10.97% 108,954,196 9.84% -1.13
Web server market share for active sitesWeb server market share for active sites
Developer July 2024 Percent August 2024 Percent Change
nginx 34,630,677 17.86% 37,946,892 19.54% 1.68
Apache 36,313,526 18.73% 35,401,145 18.23% -0.50
Cloudflare 29,463,646 15.19% 30,353,097 15.63% 0.44
Google 19,361,526 9.99% 19,914,940 10.26% 0.27

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Web server market share for top million busiest sitesWeb server market share for top million busiest sites
Developer July 2024 Percent August 2024 Percent Change
Cloudflare 230,344 23.03% 232,823 23.28% 0.25
nginx 204,303 20.43% 202,769 20.28% -0.15
Apache 194,581 19.46% 192,880 19.29% -0.17
Microsoft 45,186 4.52% 44,580 4.46% -0.06
Web server market share for computersWeb server market share for computers
Developer July 2024 Percent August 2024 Percent Change
nginx 5,000,672 38.79% 5,037,328 38.72% -0.07
Apache 3,171,258 24.60% 3,194,165 24.55% -0.05
Microsoft 1,168,997 9.07% 1,186,646 9.12% 0.05
Web server market share for domainsWeb server market share for domains
Developer July 2024 Percent August 2024 Percent Change
Apache 56,523,544 20.90% 55,087,675 20.40% -0.50
nginx 58,550,147 21.65% 51,825,561 19.19% -2.46
OpenResty 48,247,896 17.84% 47,996,022 17.77% -0.07
Cloudflare 23,547,247 8.71% 24,899,127 9.22% 0.51