Netcraft Blog November 2024 Web Server Survey

In the November 2024 survey we received responses from 1,141,129,846 sites across 272,032,056 domains and 13,114,233 web-facing computers. This reflects an increase of 10.1 million sites, 277,239 domains, and 110,998 web-facing computers. Cloudflare experienced the largest gain of 2.6 million sites (+1.96%) this month, and now accounts for 11.8% (0.12pp) of sites seen by Netcraft. Google made the next largest gain of 1.4 million sites (+2.39%). nginx experienced the largest loss of 6.6 million sites (-2.92%) this month, reducing its market share to 19.3% (-0.75pp). Microsoft suffered the next largest loss, down by 634,406 sites (-3.24%). Vendor news nginx 1.27.3 was released on November 26th. It adds support for automatically re-resolving the IP address of an upstream server, which previously required a restart in the open-source edition of nginx. It also disables TLS 1.0 and 1.1 by default. Apache Tomcat versions 9.0.97, 10.1.33, and 11.0.1, were released, containing various bug fixes and improvements. Cloudflare published a blog post describing how it migrated its customers’ DNS records to a new database, improving performance. Developer October 2024 Percent November 2024 Percent Change nginx 226,359,600 20.01% 219,759,986 19.26% -0.75 Apache 199,150,231 17.61% 199,979,734 17.52% -0.08 Cloudflare 131,624,333 11.64% 134,206,904 11.76% 0.12 OpenResty 113,940,338 10.07% 113,588,554 9.95% -0.12 Developer October 2024 Percent November 2024 Percent Change nginx 36,782,559 18.98% 36,316,193 18.92% -0.06 Apache 34,610,609 17.86% 34,282,183 17.86% -0.00 Cloudflare 31,263,058 16.13% 31,345,424 16.33% 0.20 Google 19,110,196 9.86% 18,476,835 9.63% -0.24 For more information see Active Sites. Developer October 2024 Percent November 2024 Percent Change Cloudflare 238,294 23.83% 239,325 23.93% 0.10 nginx 200,444 20.04% 198,976 19.90% -0.15 Apache 186,870 18.69% 184,687 18.47% -0.22 Microsoft 43,904 4.39% 43,604 4.36% -0.03 Developer October 2024 Percent November 2024 Percent Change nginx 5,053,891 38.87% 5,132,851 39.14% 0.27 Apache 3,131,957 24.09% 3,118,996 23.78% -0.30 Microsoft 1,170,825 9.00%...