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June 2024 Web Server Survey


In the June 2024 survey we received responses from 1,101,431,853 sites across 269,118,919 domains and 12,865,432 web-facing computers. This reflects an increase of 4.0 million sites, an increase of 981,220 domains, and a decrease of 33,027 web-facing computers.

OpenResty experienced the largest gain of 4.6 million sites (+4.01%) this month, and now accounts for 10.8% (+0.38pp) of sites seen by Netcraft. Cloudflare made the next largest gain of 3.2 million sites (+2.66%).

Apache experienced the largest loss of 4.8 million sites (-2.23%) this month, reducing its market share to 19.3% (-0.51pp). LiteSpeed suffered the next largest loss, down by 1.1 million sites (-2.24%).

Vendor news

  • njs 0.8.5 was released on June 25th, primarily containing bug fixes. Earlier this month its source code was moved to GitHub.
  • freenginx 1.27.1 was released on June 4th. New features include support for limiting the number of headers in a HTTP request, and support for additional authentication mechanisms in its mail proxying module.
  • LiteSpeed 6.3 was released on June 26th, containing new features, improvements, and bug fixes. The new features are mainly security-related.
  • Apache Tomcat versions 9.0.90, 10.1.25and 11.0.0-M21 were released.
  • Amazon announced its plan to launch a new AWS region in Taipei, Taiwan by early 2025.

Total number of websites

Web server market share

Developer May 2024 Percent June 2024 Percent Change
nginx 236,239,936 21.53% 235,170,823 21.35% -0.18
Apache 217,239,604 19.80% 212,402,611 19.28% -0.51
Cloudflare 118,561,124 10.80% 121,715,882 11.05% 0.25
OpenResty 114,268,616 10.41% 118,852,803 10.79% 0.38

Web server market share for active sites

Developer May 2024 Percent June 2024 Percent Change
Apache 37,106,437 19.17% 36,784,011 19.13% -0.04
nginx 34,944,050 18.06% 34,778,931 18.09% 0.03
Cloudflare 28,767,697 14.86% 28,457,465 14.80% -0.07
Google 19,116,508 9.88% 19,253,340 10.01% 0.14

For more information see Active Sites.

Web server market share for top million busiest sites

Developer May 2024 Percent June 2024 Percent Change
Cloudflare 228,120 22.81% 230,996 23.10% 0.29
nginx 204,238 20.42% 205,005 20.50% 0.08
Apache 197,994 19.80% 196,945 19.69% -0.10
Microsoft 46,476 4.65% 45,441 4.54% -0.10

Web server market share for computers

Developer May 2024 Percent June 2024 Percent Change
nginx 4,991,558 38.70% 4,983,288 38.73% 0.04
Apache 3,200,253 24.81% 3,179,967 24.72% -0.09
Microsoft 1,166,629 9.04% 1,162,544 9.04% -0.01

Web server market share for domains

Developer May 2024 Percent June 2024 Percent Change
nginx 59,369,976 22.14% 58,833,354 21.86% -0.28
Apache 56,703,726 21.15% 56,621,922 21.04% -0.11
OpenResty 47,234,776 17.62% 48,342,096 17.96% 0.35
Cloudflare 22,741,959 8.48% 23,150,381 8.60% 0.12

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