In the November 2022 survey we received responses from 1,135,089,912 sites across 271,689,143 domains and 12,306,625 web-facing computers. This reflects a gain of 4.7 million sites, a loss of 194,480 domains, and a gain of 6,685 web-facing computers.
The biggest growth this month comes from Cloudflare, with it gaining 8.3 million sites (+8.91%) and 490,000 domains (+1.94%). Cloudflare now accounts for 8.93% of all sites seen by Netcraft, up by 0.70pp since October.
nginx saw significant losses in its number of sites and domains this month. It lost 8.5 million sites (-2.75%) and 490,000 domains (-0.66%). However, nginx still holds its strong lead as the most widely used web server software, with a market share of 26.51% sites. Apache has the second largest number of sites, with a market share of 21.40%.
LiteSpeed continues its strong growth — this month it gained 720,000 sites (+1.28%) and 110,000 domains (+1.32%). This brings its market share of sites from 4.97% to 5.01% (+0.04pp).
Following its web-wide trend, Cloudflare has also seen growth in the top million sites. Since October, it gained 1,733 of the top million sites, with its market share increasing from 20.83% to 21.00% (+0.17pp). Meanwhile, both Apache and nginx have lost market share in the top million sites, with Apache down from 21.72% to 21.66% (-0.06pp) and nginx down from 21.36% to 21.21% (-0.15pp).
Vendor news
- nginx 1.23.2 was released on 19th October 2022. This version fixes memory corruption and disclosure vulnerabilities in
ngx_http_mp4_module. - njs 0.7.8, the scripting language used to extend nginx, was released on 25th October 2022, adding many language features and bug fixes.
- Apache Tomcat versions 8.5.83, 9.0.68, 10.0.27, and 10.1.1 were released on 3rd October 2022. Most of the changes are bugfixes.
- Cloudflare announced early access for Privacy Gateway, a proxy allowing HTTP traffic to be securely encapsulated. It is based on the Oblivious HTTP IETF draft.
- AWS announced two new Local Zones: Hamburg, Germany and Warsaw, Poland. These are the first locations in Europe, and add to the now 20 generally available Local Zones.
| Developer | October 2022 | Percent | November 2022 | Percent | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| nginx | 309,403,564 | 27.37% | 300,890,891 | 26.51% | -0.86 |
| Apache | 245,852,856 | 21.75% | 242,899,324 | 21.40% | -0.35 |
| Cloudflare | 93,074,821 | 8.23% | 101,367,889 | 8.93% | 0.70 |
| OpenResty | 91,587,837 | 8.10% | 91,612,799 | 8.07% | -0.03 |
| Developer | October 2022 | Percent | November 2022 | Percent | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apache | 42,720,717 | 21.49% | 42,803,960 | 21.56% | 0.07 |
| nginx | 39,104,158 | 19.67% | 38,955,039 | 19.62% | -0.05 |
| Cloudflare | 21,458,649 | 10.80% | 21,187,445 | 10.67% | -0.12 |
| 19,845,216 | 9.98% | 19,829,899 | 9.99% | 0.00 |
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| Developer | October 2022 | Percent | November 2022 | Percent | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apache | 217,191 | 21.72% | 216,640 | 21.66% | -0.06 |
| nginx | 213,569 | 21.36% | 212,059 | 21.21% | -0.15 |
| Cloudflare | 208,251 | 20.83% | 209,984 | 21.00% | 0.17 |
| Microsoft | 54,812 | 5.48% | 54,285 | 5.43% | -0.05 |
| Developer | October 2022 | Percent | November 2022 | Percent | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| nginx | 4,786,026 | 38.91% | 4,806,069 | 39.05% | 0.14 |
| Apache | 3,407,908 | 27.71% | 3,389,582 | 27.54% | -0.16 |
| Microsoft | 1,293,490 | 10.52% | 1,264,268 | 10.27% | -0.24 |
| Developer | October 2022 | Percent | November 2022 | Percent | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| nginx | 74,662,305 | 27.46% | 74,170,647 | 27.30% | -0.16 |
| Apache | 59,540,179 | 21.90% | 59,273,640 | 21.82% | -0.08 |
| OpenResty | 39,765,218 | 14.63% | 39,633,742 | 14.59% | -0.04 |
| Cloudflare | 25,154,284 | 9.25% | 25,641,553 | 9.44% | 0.19 |