2024 roundup: Top data breach stories and industry trends

With 2025 on the horizon, it’s important to reflect on the developments and various setbacks that happened in cybersecurity this past year. While there have been many improvements in security technologies and growing awareness of emerging cybersecurity threats, 2024 was also a hard reminder that the ongoing fight against cyber criminals is far from over. […]

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December 2024 Web Server Survey

In the December 2024 survey we received responses from 1,149,724,280 sites across 272,582,582 domains and 13,260,653 web-facing computers. This reflects an increase of 8.6 million sites, 550,526 domains, and 146,420 web-facing computers.

nginx experienced the largest gain of 6.4 million sites (+2.92%) this month, and now accounts for 19.7% (+0.41pp) of sites seen by Netcraft. Cloudflare made the next largest gain of 2.6 million sites (+1.90%).

Apache experienced the largest loss of 1.1 million sites (-0.54%) this month, reducing its market share to 17.3% (-0.23pp). OpenResty suffered the next largest loss, down by 1.0 million sites (-0.88%).

000webhost shutdown

Earlier this year, Hostinger announced the closure of its 000webhost brand, which provided free web hosting. It has now shut down all remaining 000webhost sites, resulting in the number of sites hosted at Hostinger dropping by just under 50% this month – from 15.3 million to 8.1 million.

Most of the sites Hostinger lost this month no longer exist – only around 114,000 moved to competitors.

Vendor news

Total number of websites
Web server market share
Developer November 2024 Percent December 2024 Percent Change
nginx 219,759,986 19.26% 226,171,028 19.67% 0.41
Apache 199,979,734 17.52% 198,890,333 17.30% -0.23
Cloudflare 134,206,904 11.76% 136,757,549 11.89% 0.13
OpenResty 113,588,554 9.95% 112,584,126 9.79% -0.16

Web server market share for active sites
Developer November 2024 Percent December 2024 Percent Change
nginx 36,316,193 18.92% 36,362,945 18.81% -0.10
Apache 34,282,183 17.86% 34,037,621 17.61% -0.25
Cloudflare 31,345,424 16.33% 31,976,614 16.55% 0.22
Google 18,476,835 9.63% 19,724,966 10.21% 0.58

For more information see Active Sites.

Web server market share for top million busiest sites
Developer November 2024 Percent December 2024 Percent Change
Cloudflare 239,325 23.93% 241,861 24.19% 0.25
nginx 198,976

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