In the July 2024 survey we received responses from 1,104,170,084 sites across 270,429,856 domains and 12,891,416 web-facing computers. This reflects an increase of 2.7 million sites, 1.3 million domains, and 25,984 web-facing computers.
Cloudflare experienced the largest gain of 2.7 million sites (+2.18%) this month, and now accounts for 11.3% (0.21pp) of sites seen by Netcraft. OpenResty made the next largest gain of 2.2 million sites (+1.88%).
nginx experienced the largest loss of 6.5 million sites (-2.78%) this month, reducing its market share to 20.7% (-0.65pp). Apache suffered the next largest loss, down by 3.4 million sites (-1.60%).
Vendor news
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Apache 2.4.62 was released on July 17th, containing fixes for two security vulnerabilities.
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freenginx 1.27.2 was released on July 9th, adding support for rate limiting error logs.
- OpenResty versions 1.21.4.4 and 1.25.3.2 were released on July 21st, fixing a security issue in its fork of LuaJIT that could cause severe performance degradation under certain circumstances.
- Cloudflare added a new one-click button for its customers to block AI scrapers and crawlers.
| Developer |
June 2024 |
Percent |
July 2024 |
Percent |
Change |
| nginx |
235,170,823 |
21.35% |
228,626,175 |
20.71% |
-0.65 |
| Apache |
212,402,611 |
19.28% |
208,999,470 |
18.93% |
-0.36 |
| Cloudflare |
121,715,882 |
11.05% |
124,366,036 |
11.26% |
0.21 |
| OpenResty |
118,852,803 |
10.79% |
121,083,375 |
10.97% |
0.18 |
| Developer |
June 2024 |
Percent |
July 2024 |
Percent |
Change |
| Apache |
36,784,011 |
19.13% |
36,313,526 |
18.73% |
-0.40 |
| nginx |
34,778,931 |
18.09% |
34,630,677 |
17.86% |
-0.23 |
| Cloudflare |
28,457,465 |
14.80% |
29,463,646 |
15.19% |
0.40 |
| Google |
19,253,340 |
10.01% |
19,361,526 |
9.99% |
-0.03 |
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| Developer |
June 2024 |
Percent |
July 2024 |
Percent |
Change |
| Cloudflare |
230,996 |
23.10% |
230,344 |
23.03% |
-0.07 |
| nginx |
205,005 |
20.50% |
204,303 |
20.43% |
-0.07 |
| Apache |
196,945 |
19.69% |
194,581 |
19.46% |
-0.24 |
| Microsoft |
45,441 |
4.54% |
45,186 |
4.52% |
-0.03 |
| Developer |
June 2024 |
Percent |
July 2024 |
Percent |
Change |
| nginx |
4,983,288 |
38.73% |
5,000,672 |
38.79% |
0.06 |
| Apache |
3,179,967 |
24.72% |
3,171,258 |
24.60% |
-0.12 |
| Microsoft |
1,162,544 |
9.04% |
1,168,997 |
9.07% |
0.03 |
| Developer |
June 2024 |
Percent |
July 2024 |
Percent |
Change |
| nginx |
58,833,354 |
21.86% |
58,550,147 |
21.65% |
-0.21 |
| Apache |
56,621,922 |
21.04% |
56,523,544 |
20.90% |
-0.14 |
| OpenResty |
48,342,096 |
17.96% |
48,247,896 |
17.84% |
-0.12 |
| Cloudflare |
23,150,381 |
8.60% |
23,547,247 |
8.71% |
0.11 |
