In the February 2012 survey we received responses from 612,843,429 sites. Compared to January, this represents an increase of 30M hostnames or +5.2%.
nginx was the only server to experience a non-negligible market share increase this month, gaining 0.27 percentage points. Apache did experience a growth of 19M hostnames, but its market share has remained static, while Microsoft and Google had a small drop in market share despite gaining 3.9M and 450K hostnames respectively.
Within the Million Busiest Sites nginx continued its steady growth; gaining just over 12K new sites. Apache saw the biggest loss this month with a drop of 18K hostnames.
The Resin application server has been experiencing strong growth over the past 12 months; seeing an almost tenfold growth from 480k hostnames in February 2011 to 4.7M or 0.77% of the market in February 2012. Resin is a Java application server from Caucho which is used on a number of the Million Busiest Sites, including Bebo — now recovered from its outage last week.
Total Sites Across All Domains
August 1995 – February 2012
Market Share for Top Servers Across All Domains
August 1995 – February 2012
Developer |
January 2012 |
Percent |
February 2012 |
Percent |
Change |
Apache |
378,267,399 |
64.91% |
397,867,089 |
64.92% |
0.01 |
Microsoft |
84,288,985 |
14.46% |
88,210,995 |
14.39% |
-0.07 |
nginx |
56,087,776 |
9.63% |
60,627,200 |
9.89% |
0.27 |
Google |
18,936,381 |
3.25% |
19,394,196 |
3.16% |
-0.09 |
Totals for Active Sites Across All Domains
June 2000 – February 2012
Developer |
January 2012 |
Percent |
February 2012 |
Percent |
Change |
Apache |
105,684,049 |
57.93% |
106,664,061 |
57.45% |
-0.48 |
nginx |
22,221,514 |
12.18% |
23,590,737 |
12.71% |
0.53 |
Microsoft |
22,142,114 |
12.14% |
22,363,730 |
12.05% |
-0.09 |
Google |
14,412,926 |
7.90% |
14,316,485 |
7.71% |
-0.19 |
For more information see Active Sites
Market Share for Top Servers Across the Million Busiest Sites
September 2008 – February 2012
Developer |
January 2012 |
Percent |
February 2012 |
Percent |
Change |
Apache |
640,547 |
64.36% |
622,816 |
62.57% |
-1.80 |
Microsoft |
149,209 |
14.99% |
147,689 |
14.84% |
-0.16 |
nginx |
84,541 |
8.49% |
96,596 |
9.70% |
1.21 |
Google |
23,894 |
2.40% |
30,229 |
3.04% |
0.64 |