February 2024 Web Server Survey
In the February 2024 survey we received responses from 1,086,916,398 sites across 271,141,726 domains and 12,489,253 web-facing computers. This reflects an increase of 7.8 million sites, 694,270 domains, and 151,543 web-facing computers.
OpenResty made the largest gain of 4.7 million sites (+4.79%) this month. It now accounts for 9.49% (+0.37pp) of sites seen by Netcraft. Cloudflare saw the next largest gain of 1.9 million sites (+1.58%).
nginx experienced the largest loss of 4.4 million sites (-1.75%) this month, reducing its market share to 22.6% (-0.57pp). LiteSpeed suffered the next largest loss, down by 515,685 sites (-1.03%).
Vendor news
nginx core developer Maxim Dounin announced freenginx, a fork of the nginx project, due to disagreements with nginx owner F5 over how the open-source nginx project was run.
nginx 1.25.4 was released on February 14th, containing fixes for two denial of service vulnerabilities in nginx's QUIC module. Dounin disagreed with F5's decision to assign CVEs for these issues.
AWS began charging for public IPv4 addresses in February, after announcing the change last year. On January 25th, Amazon also announced new instance bundles for Amazon Lightsail, allowing IPv6-only Lightsail instances to be created quickly.
Apache Tomcat versions 8.5.99, 9.0.86, 10.1.19 and 11.0.0-M17 were released on February 19th, adding CSRF protection improvements.
lighttpd version 1.4.74 was released on February 19th.
Amazon announced new AWS Local Zones in Houston and Chicago, and a new edge location in Istanbul.
Developer | January 2024 | Percent | February 2024 | Percent | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
nginx | 250,509,224 | 23.21% | 246,113,438 | 22.64% | -0.57 |
Apache | 223,346,407 | 20.70% | 224,808,405 | 20.68% | -0.01 |
Cloudflare | 118,627,424 | 10.99% | 120,502,966 | 11.09% | 0.09 |
OpenResty | 98,390,136 | 9.12% | 103,106,166 | 9.49% | 0.37 |
Developer | January 2024 | Percent | February 2024 | Percent | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Apache | 39,401,334 | 20.48% | 39,302,485 | 20.38% | -0.11 |
nginx | 35,591,558 | 18.50% | 35,267,152 | 18.28% | -0.22 |
Cloudflare | 25,731,404 | 13.38% | 26,246,480 | 13.61% | 0.23 |
20,010,860 | 10.40% | 19,950,792 | 10.34% | -0.06 |
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Developer | January 2024 | Percent | February 2024 | Percent | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Cloudflare | 224,091 | 22.41% | 228,292 | 22.83% | 0.42 |
nginx | 207,074 | 20.71% | 207,352 | 20.74% | 0.03 |
Apache | 202,256 | 20.23% | 203,804 | 20.38% | 0.15 |
Microsoft | 46,995 | 4.70% | 46,894 | 4.69% | -0.01 |
Developer | January 2024 | Percent | February 2024 | Percent | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
nginx | 4,856,088 | 39.36% | 4,901,629 | 39.25% | -0.11 |
Apache | 3,172,682 | 25.72% | 3,167,767 | 25.36% | -0.35 |
Microsoft | 1,179,160 | 9.56% | 1,180,647 | 9.45% | -0.10 |
Developer | January 2024 | Percent | February 2024 | Percent | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
nginx | 59,970,194 | 22.17% | 59,707,340 | 22.02% | -0.15 |
Apache | 58,971,448 | 21.81% | 59,057,844 | 21.78% | -0.02 |
OpenResty | 44,899,651 | 16.60% | 45,325,578 | 16.72% | 0.11 |
Cloudflare | 26,361,454 | 9.75% | 26,692,491 | 9.84% | 0.10 |
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