In the October 2019 survey we received responses from 1,300,884,420 sites across 241,553,033 unique domain names and 9,045,029 web-facing computers. This reflects a gain of 9.71 million sites, 421,000 domains and a loss of 23,000 computers.
Amongst the largest web server vendors, only nginx and Google gained sites this month with the two vendors increasing by 5.67 million (+1.34%) and 1.80 million (+5.45%) sites respectively, whilst Apache and Microsoft lost 2.14 million (-0.57%) and 6.77 million (-3.56%) sites.
nginx was in fact the only major web server vendor to see increases in most metrics this month, with gains in domains (+480,000), web-facing computers (+12,000), and top million websites (+472).
Apache saw substantially the largest loss of domains, dropping by 762,000 (-1.04%), with Microsoft following with a smaller drop of 125,000 (-0.26%). These losses were largely offset by increases in domains using other smaller vendors, such as Cloudflare and Tengine, both of which are based on nginx.
In terms of web-facing computers, Microsoft saw the largest loss of 56,000 (-3.46%), followed by Apache which dropped 15,000 (-0.46%). A large proportion of Microsoft’s loss came at hosting provider Cloud Innovation which appeared to switch many sites to Tengine.
| Developer | September 2019 | Percent | October 2019 | Percent | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| nginx | 422,048,243 | 32.69% | 427,719,289 | 32.88% | 0.19 |
| Apache | 374,739,321 | 29.02% | 372,604,250 | 28.64% | -0.38 |
| Microsoft | 189,991,312 | 14.71% | 183,224,187 | 14.08% | -0.63 |
| 33,058,930 | 2.56% | 34,861,968 | 2.68% | 0.12 |