In the March 2025 survey we received responses from 1,197,680,522 sites across 275,633,322 domains and 13,402,722 web-facing computers. This reflects an increase of 17.0 million sites and 976,381 domains, and a loss of 77,628 web-facing computers.
nginx made the largest gain of 5.1 million sites (+2.12%) this month, increasing its market share to 20.5% (+0.14pp). Cloudflare made the next largest gain of 3.7 million sites (+2.49%).
Apache suffered the largest loss of 451,949 sites (-0.23%) this month, and now accounts for 16.0% (-0.27pp) of sites seen by Netcraft. Microsoft experienced the next largest loss of 189,378 sites (-1.03%).
Vendor news
- Google Cloud launched a new region in Sweden on March 6th.
- Apache Tomcat versions 9.0.102, 10.1.39 and 11.05 were released between March 5th and 7th. These versions improve protection against a race condition allowing remote code execution on case insensitive filesystems.
Developer |
February 2025 |
Percent |
March 2025 |
Percent |
Change |
nginx |
240,182,690 |
20.34% |
245,275,749 |
20.48% |
0.14 |
Apache |
192,401,922 |
16.30% |
191,949,973 |
16.03% |
-0.27 |
Cloudflare |
150,432,756 |
12.74% |
154,171,314 |
12.87% |
0.13 |
OpenResty |
111,442,093 |
9.44% |
112,063,651 |
9.36% |
-0.08 |
Developer |
February 2025 |
Percent |
March 2025 |
Percent |
Change |
nginx |
36,179,069 |
18.38% |
35,283,083 |
17.89% |
-0.49 |
Cloudflare |
34,245,606 |
17.40% |
35,122,370 |
17.81% |
0.41 |
Apache |
32,549,711 |
16.54% |
32,140,051 |
16.30% |
-0.24 |
Google |
18,744,996 |
9.52% |
19,492,434 |
9.89% |
0.36 |
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Developer |
February 2025 |
Percent |
March 2025 |
Percent |
Change |
Cloudflare |
229,874 |
22.99% |
223,176 |
22.32% |
-0.67 |
nginx |
201,058 |
20.11% |
203,732 |
20.37% |
0.27 |
Apache |
178,287 |
17.83% |
179,491 |
17.95% |
0.12 |
Microsoft |
41,612 |
4.16% |
42,049 |
4.20% |
0.04 |
Developer |
February 2025 |
Percent |
March 2025 |
Percent |
Change |
nginx |
5,319,894 |
39.46% |
5,368,409 |
40.05% |
0.59 |
Apache |
3,079,017 |
22.84% |
3,066,454 |
22.88% |
0.04 |
Microsoft |
1,166,631 |
8.65% |
1,166,997 |
8.71% |
0.05 |
Developer |
February 2025 |
Percent |
March 2025 |
Percent |
Change |
Apache |
51,860,896 |
18.88% |
51,840,052 |
18.81% |
-0.07 |
nginx |
50,684,106 |
18.45% |
50,292,713 |
18.25% |
-0.21 |
OpenResty |
47,057,779 |
17.13% |
47,174,160 |
17.11% |
-0.02 |
Cloudflare |
28,694,732 |
10.45% |
29,368,444 |
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