In the August 2020 survey we received responses from
1,230,576,586 sites across 261,821,287 unique domains and
10,349,486 web-facing computers. This represents a loss of 3.65 million
sites, but a gain of 1.16 million domains and 128,000 computers.
The number of web-facing computers using nginx increased by 83,000 this month,
which means that – for the first time – nginx is in use by more web-facing
computers than any other web server, including Apache. This is another
milestone for nginx, and reflects its impressive growth in recent years.
Apache still serves more active sites than nginx, and a greater proportion of
the top million busiest sites, but this month its decline in these metrics
continued. One year ago, among the top million busiest sites, nginx trailed
Apache’s market share by 6 percentage points. nginx has since halved this gap,
and is now less than 3 percentage points behind. If the current trend
continues, it won’t be long before nginx overtakes Apache in this area too.
As well as a marked decrease in total sites this month of 22.14 million
(-15.8%), Microsoft also suffered in other metrics this month. The number of
domains served using Microsoft software dropped by 8.27 million (-18.4%), and
19,000 fewer web-facing computers (-1.2%) are running Microsoft web servers.
Microsoft also lost 633,000 active sites (-7.3%).
New vendor releases
Apache released three new
versions of httpd this
month. Version 2.4.44 fixed
several bugs, version 2.4.45
dropped support for the abandoned HTTP2 Cache Digests
proposal, and version
2.4.46 fixed three security
vulnerabilities.
This month nginx released updates for three of its
products. nginx 19.1.2 mainline was released on
11 August with a few minor optimizations and several bugfixes. On the same day,
njs 0.4.3 was released, adding support for the
querystring module.
On 13 August nginx Unit 1.19.0 was
released, which introduced several new features, improved performance, and fixed
a number of bugs.
| Developer |
July 2020 |
Percent |
August 2020 |
Percent |
Change |
| nginx |
451,156,878 |
36.55% |
448,602,806 |
36.45% |
-0.10 |
| Apache |
314,054,523 |
25.45% |
318,307,245 |
25.87% |
0.42 |
| Microsoft |
140,264,332 |
11.36% |
118,126,662 |
9.60% |
-1.77 |
| Google |
44,290,430 |
3.59% |
44,326,227 |
3.60% |
0.01 |
