June 2012 Web Server Survey

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by Ike on June 6, 2012 at 7:55 am
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In the June 2012 survey we received responses from 697,089,482 sites, a growth of 5.1% or 34M sites since last month.

All major web server vendors experienced an increase in hostnames this month. After a loss of 17.5M hostnames last month Apache saw the largest growth this month with an increase of 22.8M hostnames. The second largest growth was seen by Microsoft with an increase of 3.5M hostnames. This, however, still resulted in a loss in the market share for Microsoft. nginx, after nine consecutive months of market share growth, also experienced a loss in market share albeit gaining 2.1M hostnames.

The 6th of June 2012 is the World IPv6 launch day. The event is organized by the Internet Society and it is aiming to promote the widespread usage of the protocol. This month’s survey received IPv6 AAAA results for over 7M hostnames, mapping to 105k distinct IPv6 addresses. Apache was found running on the majority of these hostnames (6.2M), followed by nginx with 398k hostnames.

Total Sites Across All Domains
August 1995 – June 2012

Total Sites Across All Domains, August 1995 - June 2012

Market Share for Top Servers Across All Domains
August 1995 – June 2012

Graph of market share for top servers across all domains, August 1995 - June 2012

Developer May 2012 Percent June 2012 Percent Change
Apache 425,631,721 64.20% 448,452,703 64.33% 0.13
Microsoft 92,406,480 13.94% 95,891,537 13.76% -0.18
nginx 70,764,248 10.67% 72,881,755 10.46% -0.22
Google 21,264,616 3.21% 22,464,345 3.22% 0.02

Totals for Active Sites Across All Domains
June 2000 – June 2012

Developer May 2012 Percent June 2012 Percent Change
Apache 109,278,620 57.02% 107,485,139 55.73% -1.29
Microsoft 22,803,442 11.90% 23,464,661 12.17% 0.27
nginx 23,938,754 12.49% 23,114,450 11.98% -0.51
Google 15,855,806 8.27% 16,473,290 8.54% 0.27

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Market Share for Top Servers Across the Million Busiest Sites
September 2008 – June 2012

Developer May 2012 Percent June 2012 Percent Change
Apache 617,430 62.02% 614,721 61.75% -0.27
Microsoft 146,974 14.76% 147,054 14.77% 0.01
nginx 100,417 10.09% 102,449 10.29% 0.20
Google 29,071 2.92% 28,498 2.86% -0.06