In the June 2018 survey we received responses from 1,630,322,579 sites, 217,776,658 unique domains, and 7,614,764 web-facing computers. This reflects a gain of 45 million sites and 162,000 web-facing computers, but a loss of 98,800 domains.
Apache currently leads by most metrics, with the largest market share of domains (35.23%), active sites (41.13%), computers (40.28%), and top million sites (35.54%). However, it continues to gradually decline in market share, losing out to continued growth elsewhere, particularly by nginx. Most of Apache’s figures fell this month, with the exception of a small 35k (+1.16%) rise in web-facing computers. Despite this gain in web-facing computers, its share fell slightly, by 0.4 percentage points.
The only metric where Apache does not retain the lead is web sites: Microsoft’s server software has held the lead since July 2016. Although Microsoft web servers now account for 601 million sites, or 36.9%, relatively few of these are active sites. Microsoft servers account for 11.8 million active sites, a 6.62% share of the entire active site market, placing it behind both Apache and nginx. Internet Information Services (IIS) accounts for 97.8% of all domains using Microsoft server products, with Microsoft’s light-weight HTTPAPI making up just 2.2% of Microsoft’s domains. Only 8.0% of the web-facing computers running Microsoft IIS run the latest version available, IIS 10.0, released in October 2016 as part of Windows Server 2016. A greater proportion, 10.1%, are still running IIS 6.0, which reached end-of-life along with Windows Server 2003 almost 3 years ago.
nginx continues to rise in popularity, growing faster than its Apache and Microsoft competitors in all metrics except web sites. Although nginx’s 23.35% domain share is still behind Microsoft’s 25.73%, its continued growth has it on track to overtake Microsoft in a few months, and potentially even bring Apache within its sights in a couple of years. nginx holds second place in terms of active sites (21.64%), computers (25.84%), and the number of sites within the top one million (24.68%). This month, nginx had the largest gains in all metrics with the exception of overall web sites. Apart from its original distribution, nginx also comes in two other popular variants: Openresty, which is based on an nginx core with additional Lua-based modules, was seen on 2.0 million domains this month; and Tengine, an nginx fork maintained by Chinese ecommerce site Taobao, was seen on 1.2 million domains.
The LiteSpeed web server, which currently accounts for 1.27% of all domains, has also been slowly but steadily gaining adopters. It experienced the 3rd largest increase in domains this month, gaining 125k, giving it a larger relative increase than Apache, Microsoft, or nginx servers. LiteSpeed has a slightly higher market share of 1.50% of the top million sites and 1.86% of all active sites.
Developer |
May 2018 |
Percent |
June 2018 |
Percent |
Change |
Microsoft |
518,826,524 |
32.73% |
601,258,605 |
36.88% |
4.14 |
Apache |
396,463,723 |
25.01% |
361,165,378 |
22.15% |
-2.86 |
nginx |
359,163,599 |
22.66% |
336,529,382 |
20.64% |
-2.02 |
Google |
22,427,752 |
1.42% |
22,946,307 |
1.41% |
-0.01 |
Developer |
May 2018 |
Percent |
June 2018 |
Percent |
Change |
Apache |
73,936,582 |
42.04% |
73,047,202 |
41.13% |
-0.91 |
nginx |
37,427,068 |
21.28% |
38,430,049 |
21.64% |
0.36 |
Google |
14,279,471 |
8.12% |
14,525,401 |
8.18% |
0.06 |
Microsoft |
11,897,685 |
6.76% |
11,757,813 |
6.62% |
-0.14 |
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Developer |
May 2018 |
Percent |
June 2018 |
Percent |
Change |
Apache |
360,234 |
36.02% |
355,382 |
35.54% |
-0.49 |
nginx |
242,826 |
24.28% |
246,812 |
24.68% |
0.40 |
Microsoft |
92,776 |
9.28% |
93,092 |
9.31% |
0.03 |
LiteSpeed |
14,777 |
1.48% |
15,019 |
1.50% |
0.02 |
Developer |
May 2018 |
Percent |
June 2018 |
Percent |
Change |
Apache |
3,032,131 |
40.69% |
3,067,313 |
40.28% |
-0.40 |
nginx |
1,887,507 |
25.33% |
1,967,886 |
25.84% |
0.52 |
Microsoft |
1,525,059 |
20.46% |
1,543,179 |
20.27% |
-0.20 |
Developer |
May 2018 |
Percent |
June 2018 |
Percent |
Change |
Apache |
77,830,157 |
35.72% |
76,721,597 |
35.23% |
-0.49 |
Microsoft |
56,785,102 |
26.06% |
56,030,491 |
25.73% |
-0.33 |
nginx |
49,440,862 |
22.69% |
50,860,718 |
23.35% |
0.66 |
Google |
1,913,702 |
0.88% |
1,909,658 |
0.88% |
-0.00 |