July 2024 Web Server Survey
In the July 2024 survey we received responses from 1,104,170,084 sites across 270,429,856 domains and 12,891,416 web-facing computers. This reflects an increase of 2.7 million sites, 1.3 million domains, and 25,984 web-facing computers.
Cloudflare experienced the largest gain of 2.7 million sites (+2.18%) this month, and now accounts for 11.3% (0.21pp) of sites seen by Netcraft. OpenResty made the next largest gain of 2.2 million sites (+1.88%).
nginx experienced the largest loss of 6.5 million sites (-2.78%) this month, reducing its market share to 20.7% (-0.65pp). Apache suffered the next largest loss, down by 3.4 million sites (-1.60%).
Vendor news
- Apache 2.4.62 was released on July 17th, containing fixes for two security vulnerabilities.
- freenginx 1.27.2 was released on July 9th, adding support for rate limiting error logs.
- OpenResty versions 1.21.4.4 and 1.25.3.2 were released on July 21st, fixing a security issue in its fork of LuaJIT that could cause severe performance degradation under certain circumstances.
- Cloudflare added a new one-click button for its customers to block AI scrapers and crawlers.
| Developer | June 2024 | Percent | July 2024 | Percent | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| nginx | 235,170,823 | 21.35% | 228,626,175 | 20.71% | -0.65 |
| Apache | 212,402,611 | 19.28% | 208,999,470 | 18.93% | -0.36 |
| Cloudflare | 121,715,882 | 11.05% | 124,366,036 | 11.26% | 0.21 |
| OpenResty | 118,852,803 | 10.79% | 121,083,375 | 10.97% | 0.18 |
| Developer | June 2024 | Percent | July 2024 | Percent | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apache | 36,784,011 | 19.13% | 36,313,526 | 18.73% | -0.40 |
| nginx | 34,778,931 | 18.09% | 34,630,677 | 17.86% | -0.23 |
| Cloudflare | 28,457,465 | 14.80% | 29,463,646 | 15.19% | 0.40 |
| 19,253,340 | 10.01% | 19,361,526 | 9.99% | -0.03 |
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| Developer | June 2024 | Percent | July 2024 | Percent | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cloudflare | 230,996 | 23.10% | 230,344 | 23.03% | -0.07 |
| nginx | 205,005 | 20.50% | 204,303 | 20.43% | -0.07 |
| Apache | 196,945 | 19.69% | 194,581 | 19.46% | -0.24 |
| Microsoft | 45,441 | 4.54% | 45,186 | 4.52% | -0.03 |
| Developer | June 2024 | Percent | July 2024 | Percent | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| nginx | 4,983,288 | 38.73% | 5,000,672 | 38.79% | 0.06 |
| Apache | 3,179,967 | 24.72% | 3,171,258 | 24.60% | -0.12 |
| Microsoft | 1,162,544 | 9.04% | 1,168,997 | 9.07% | 0.03 |
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