September 2024 Web Server Survey

In the September 2024 survey we received responses from 1,119,023,272 sites across 270,782,860 domains and 12,940,670 web-facing computers. This reflects an increase of 11.2 million sites, 717,065 domains, and 70,346 web-facing computers.

Cloudflare experienced the largest increase of 3.1 million sites (+2.41%) this month, now accounting for 11.6% (0.16pp) of sites seen by Netcraft. OpenResty made the next largest gain of 2.8 million sites (+2.54%).

Apache suffered the largest loss of 2.4 million sites (-1.19%) this month, with its market share now standing at 18.0% (-0.40pp). Google experienced the next largest loss, down by 1.7 million sites (-2.84%).

Vendor news

September 2024 Web Server SurveySeptember 2024 Web Server Survey
Web server market shareWeb server market share
Developer August 2024 Percent September 2024 Percent Change
nginx 223,025,645 20.13% 225,640,032 20.16% 0.03
Apache 203,825,341 18.40% 201,390,151 18.00% -0.40
Cloudflare 127,028,522 11.47% 130,093,325 11.63% 0.16
OpenResty 108,954,196 9.84% 111,723,893 9.98% 0.15
Web server market share for active sitesWeb server market share for active sites
Developer August 2024 Percent September 2024 Percent Change
nginx 37,946,892 19.54% 37,814,329 19.50% -0.04
Apache 35,401,145 18.23% 35,115,057 18.11% -0.12
Cloudflare 30,353,097 15.63% 30,480,355 15.72% 0.09
Google 19,914,940 10.26% 18,290,859 9.43% -0.82

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Web server market share for top million busiest sitesWeb server market share for top million busiest sites
Developer August 2024 Percent September 2024 Percent Change
Cloudflare 232,823 23.28% 232,767 23.28% -0.01
nginx 202,769 20.28% 202,880 20.29% 0.01
Apache 192,880 19.29% 192,821 19.28% -0.01
Microsoft 44,580 4.46% 44,538 4.45% -0.00
Web server market share for computersWeb server market share for computers
Developer August 2024 Percent September 2024 Percent Change
nginx 5,037,328 38.72% 5,012,623 38.74% 0.02
Apache 3,194,165 24.55% 3,136,798 24.24% -0.31
Microsoft 1,186,646 9.12% 1,176,206 9.09% -0.03
Web server market share for domainsWeb server market share for domains
Developer August 2024 Percent September 2024 Percent Change
Apache 55,087,675 20.40% 55,279,202 20.41% 0.02
nginx 51,825,561 19.19% 51,328,311 18.96% -0.23
OpenResty 47,996,022 17.77% 48,295,978 17.84% 0.06
Cloudflare 24,899,127 9.22% 25,245,309 9.32% 0.10