In the May 2023 survey, we received responses from 1,109,384,426 sites across 271,534,718 domains and 12,037,194 computers with Internet access. This reflects a loss of 6.0 million sites, 976,941 domains and 52,213 computers with Internet access.
Microsoft saw the most significant change across all three metrics; lost 495,099 (-1.88%) sites, 210,670 domains (-2.93%) and 12,303 computers (-1.02%). Microsoft now represents 2.33% of sites and 2.57% of domains viewed by Netcraft, a decrease of 0.03 pp and 0.07 pp respectively.
LiteSpeed gained 202,283 domains (+2.16%) this month, which coincided with an increase in its total number of websites, up to 388,293 (+0.69%). For its part, OpenResty also grew by 325,880 (+0.38%) sites, but lost 349,276 domains (-0.91%).
nginx experienced a large loss of 5.7 million sites (-1.94%), 1.0 million domains (-1.36%), and 33,970 computers (-0.72%). By contrast, Cloudflare gained 1.1 million sites (+1.03%) and 203,491 domains (+0.79%). Despite this, nginx has a higher share (25.86% of sites compared to 9.51% for Cloudflare); however, Cloudflare still has the lead within the top 1 million sites.
In the top million sites, Cloudflare retained its top position, gaining 0.38 percentage points on its leading market share of 22.07%. Both nginx and Apache experienced losses, with their market shares declining 0.12 percentage points to 21.18% and 0.04 percentage points to 21.16% respectively, along with OpenResty losing 0 .02 percentage points to 1.00%. Meanwhile, LiteSpeed, Google, and Microsoft all saw small increases in their respective market shares, with Microsoft gaining 0.06pp, LiteSpeed gaining 0.05pp, and Google gaining just 0.003pp.
Regarding the number of web-facing computers, nginx, Apache, and Microsoft experienced declines of 0.11 pp, 0.22 pp, and 0.06 pp in their respective market shares. nginx still has the largest market share of 38.77% (4.6 million), with Apache in second with a 26.80% share (3.2 million computers) and Microsoft in third with a share of 9.99% (1.2 million computers).
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Developer Apr 2023 Percent May 2023 Percent change nginx 292,527,297 26.23% 286,842,351 25.86% -0.37 Apache 230,706,481 20.68% 230,153,373 20.75% 0.06 Cloudflare 113,441 .4 71 10.17% 114,615,294 10.33% 0.16 OpenResty 86,755,371 7.78% 87,081,251 7.85% 0.07
Developer Apr 2023 Percent May 2023 Percent Change Apache 41,803,177 20.79% 41,721,325 20.74% -0.05 nginx 38,330,465 19.07% 39,239,562 19.51% 0.44 Cloudflare 22 74 4 158 11 0.31% 22,946,279 11.41% 0.09 Google 20,281,694 10.09% 19,496,037 9.69% -0.40
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Developer Apr 2023 Percent May 2023 Percent Change Cloudflare 216,881 21.69% 220,683 22.07% 0.38 nginx 213,027 21.30% 211,823 21.18% -0.12 Apache 212,011 21.20% 211 564 21 0.16% -0.04 Microsoft 51,202 5.12% 51,808 5.18% 0.06
Developer Apr 2023 Percentage May 2023 Percent Change nginx 4,700,189 38.88% 4,666,219 38.77% -0.11 Apache 3,266,881 27.02% 3,225,842 26.80% -0.22 Microsoft 1,207,872 9.99% 1.1 95,569 9.93% -0.06
Developer Apr 2023 Percent May 2023 Percent Change nginx 74,249,254 27.25% 73,241,823 26.97% -0.27 Apache 59,541,413 21.85% 59,327,929 21.85% -0.00 OpenResty 38.44 2 .134 1 4.11% 38,092,858 14.03% -0.08 Cloudflare 25,626,994 9.40% 25,830,485 9.51% 0.11