In the September 2023 survey we received responses from 1,085,035,470 sites across 254,776,456 domains and 12,274,854 web-facing computers. This reflects a loss of 8.7 million sites and 682,961 domains, but a gain of 112,383 web-facing computers.

OpenResty saw a large loss this month, dropping by 13.3 million sites (-13.99%) and 1.9 million domains (-4.78%). It now accounts for 7.55% of sites and 15.04% of domains seen by Netcraft, down from October by 1.16pp and 0.71pp respectively. This change is also reflected in its usage in the top 1 million sites, where it lost 528 sites (-5.19%).

Google gained 1.9 million sites (+3.34%) and 725,253 domains (+26.43%). This increase gives it a 5.28% share of sites – up from 5.07% (+0.21pp) – and a 1.36% share of domains, which is up from 1.07% (+0.29pp).

nginx further increased its lead in share of computers and active sites, with a gain of 76,227 computers taking it to 39.42% (+0.26pp), and a gain of 30,879 active sites giving it a 18.63% share (+0.11pp). This is despite it losing 5.0 million sites (-1.93%) and 455,426 domains (-0.80%). Combined, this suggests that sites using nginx to host duplicate sites, parked domains, and other machine-generated content have reduced in number, with more sites using it to host unique content.

The inverse is true for Apache, with it gaining 2.1 million sites (+0.93%) and 396,091 domains (+0.68%), but losing 231,789 active sites (-0.57%) and 11,749 computers (-0.37%). Additionally, Apache lost 1,881 sites in the top 1 million, reducing its share to 20.49% (-0.19pp).

Vendor news

• Apache Tomcat version 10.1.13 was released on August 23rd.
• njs, the scripting language used to extend nginx, released version 0.8.1 on September 12th.
• AWS announced general availability of Apple M2 Pro Mac Mini EC2 instances.
• AWS received approval for building 5 new data

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