March 2012 Web Server Survey

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by Ike on March 5, 2012 at 1:26 pm
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In the March 2012 survey we received responses from 644,275,754 sites, giving a rise of 31.4M hostnames (5.1%) since last month.

Apache continued to gain hostnames this month with a growth of 22.5M and, contrary to last month, was able to increase its market share by a third of a percentage point. nginx had another good month and experienced an increase of 4.7M hostnames or 7.82%. With all other major web server vendors showing higher growth than Microsoft’s 761k increase, Microsoft recorded a drop in market share of half a percentage point. The gap between Microsoft and nginx now stands at 23.6M hostnames.

Amongst the Million Busiest Sites, Apache again suffered a small drop in market share this month, losing 1,700 sites, extending a trend that dates back to August 2011. Microsoft gained 110 sites making this the first time it has recorded an increase since June 2010. nginx continued to increase its market share and gained 1.2k sites, whilst Google suffered a small loss of 289 sites.

Total Sites Across All Domains
August 1995 – March 2012

Total Sites Across All Domains, August 1995 - March 2012

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

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

Developer February 2012 Percent March 2012 Percent Change
Apache 397,867,089 64.92% 420,337,139 65.24% 0.32
Microsoft 88,210,995 14.39% 88,971,973 13.81% -0.58
nginx 60,627,200 9.89% 65,369,149 10.15% 0.25
Google 19,394,196 3.16% 21,150,938 3.28% 0.12


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

Developer February 2012 Percent March 2012 Percent Change
Apache 106,664,061 57.45% 108,035,584 57.46% 0.01
nginx 23,590,737 12.71% 24,011,199 12.77% 0.06
Microsoft 22,363,730 12.05% 22,537,872 11.99% -0.06
Google 14,316,485 7.71% 14,438,358 7.68% -0.03

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

Developer February 2012 Percent March 2012 Percent Change
Apache 622,816 62.57% 621,111 62.39% -0.17
Microsoft 147,689 14.84% 147,799 14.85% 0.01
nginx 96,596 9.70% 97,767 9.82% 0.12
Google 30,229 3.04% 29,940 3.01% -0.03