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In the May 2019 survey we received responses from 1,326,664,693 sites across 235,011,143 unique domain names and 8,726,985 web-facing computers. Although this reflects a gain of 1.12 million domains and 113,000 computers, there has been a loss of 119 million sites. This month’s relatively large drop in sites (-8.2%) includes a 10.3 million reduction in […] Continue reading May 2019 Web Server Survey
In the April 2019 survey we received responses from 1,445,266,139 sites across 233,886,577 unique domain names and 8,613,630 web-facing computers. This reflects a loss of 16.8 million sites, but a gain of 1.72 million domains and 87,000 computers. Most websites now use nginx! Despite the overall loss of sites this month, nginx gained 22.3 million […] Continue reading April 2019 Web Server Survey
In the March 2019 survey we received responses from 1,462,021,378 sites, 232,162,099 unique domains, and 8,526,624 web-facing computers. This reflects a loss of 15.8 million sites, but a gain of 2.57 million domains and 160k web-facing computers. The March survey brings major upheaval in the domains metric. A large 8 million domain switch from Microsoft […] Continue reading March 2019 Web Server Survey
In the February 2019 survey we received responses from 1,477,803,927 sites, 229,586,773 unique domains, and 8,366,753 web-facing computers. This reflects a loss of 40.4 million sites, and gains of 979k domains, and 157k web-facing computers. Microsoft experienced the largest gain in domains this month, with a net increase of just over one million. Despite several […] Continue reading February 2019 Web Server Survey
In the January 2019 survey we received responses from 1,518,207,412 sites, 228,607,903 unique domains, and 8,209,715 web-facing computers. This reflects a loss of 138 million sites, and gains of 768.9k domains, and 61.9k web-facing computers. The vast majority of the loss of sites this month was seen for those using Microsoft web server software — […] Continue reading January 2019 Web Server Survey
In the December 2018 survey we received responses from 1,656,556,205 sites, 227,839,033 unique domains, and 8,147,795 web-facing computers. This reflects a gain of 4.37 million sites, 1.09 million domains, and 98.9k web-facing computers. Whilst Apache’s server software remains the market leader in most metrics, its share continues to erode in favour of competing products. In […] Continue reading December 2018 Web Server Survey
In the November 2018 survey we received responses from 1,652,185,816 sites, 226,752,928 unique domains, and 8,048,899 web-facing computers. This reflects a loss of 21.3 million sites, but a gain of 1.7 million domains and 121 thousand web-facing computers. The largest contributor to the increase in domains this month came from sites running on Microsoft server […] Continue reading November 2018 Web Server Survey
In the October 2018 survey we received responses from 1,673,535,333 sites, 225,042,277 unique domains, and 7,927,795 web-facing computers. This reflects a gain of 31 million sites, 2.4 million domains and 142 thousand web-facing computers. Nginx contributed the majority of this month’s growth in terms of both domains and web-facing computers. Over 1.6 million additional domains […] Continue reading October 2018 Web Server Survey
In the September 2018 survey we received responses from 1,642,339,233 sites, 222,628,534 unique domains, and 7,785,976 web-facing computers. This reflects gains of 1.1 million unique domains and 28,000 web-facing computers, but a loss of 19 million sites. Despite the overall increase in number of unique domains this month, all of the major web server vendors […] Continue reading September 2018 Web Server Survey
In the August 2018 survey we received responses from 1,661,467,123 sites, 221,524,704 unique domains, and 7,758,309 web-facing computers. This reflects a loss of 2.21 million sites, but a gain of 952k domains and 23.9k web-facing computers. While the Apache web server remains the current leading platform in terms of its total number of domains, computers, […] Continue reading August 2018 Web Server Survey