September 19, 2024


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.
Web server market share
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
Web server market share for active sites
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
Google 19,253,340 10.01% 19,361,526 9.99% -0.03

For more information see Active Sites.

Web server market share for top million busiest sites
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
Web server market share for computers
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
Web server market share for domains
Developer June 2024 Percent July 2024 Percent Change
nginx 58,833,354 21.86% 58,550,147 21.65% -0.21
Apache 56,621,922 21.04% 56,523,544 20.90% -0.14
OpenResty 48,342,096 17.96% 48,247,896 17.84% -0.12
Cloudflare 23,150,381 8.60% 23,547,247 8.71% 0.11



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