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May 2009 Web Server Survey

In the May 2009 survey we received responses from 235,890,526 sites, an increase of 4.3 million on last month. Apache remains firmly in the lead, having gained 3.3 million sites, and Microsoft-IIS remains second, having lost almost 0.9 million (mostly due to less activity seen at accounts on Microsoft's own Live Spaces service). QQ.com, the popular IM service in China, remains third with 29M sites. Google takes fourth place, after gaining approximately 1.5 million sites, and remains ahead of nginx which gained 200,000.
Global Distribution of nginx Sites
The Russian nginx web server web server nginx has been steadily increasing in popularity for several years. The chart below shows the geographical distribution of sites using nginx and in particular illustrates that China now has the most nginx sites, with almost 2.5 million and that the US is close behind with almost 2.4 million. nginx was written by Igor Sysoev and is well known for its rich feature set and low resource consumption.
Total Sites Across All Domains August 1995 - May 2009
Total Sites Across All Domains, August 1995 - May 2009
Market Share for Top Servers Across All Domains August 1995 - May 2009
Graph of market share for top servers across all domains, August 1995 - May 2009
Top Developers
Developer April 2009 Percent May 2009 Percent Change
Apache 106,368,727 45.95% 109,672,897 46.49% 0.55
Microsoft 67,767,928 29.27% 66,871,466 28.35% -0.92
qq.com 28,905,133 12.49% 28,905,135 12.25% -0.23
Google 7,229,033 3.12% 8,678,011 3.68% 0.56
nginx 6,100,424 2.64% 6,342,250 2.69% 0.05
Active Sites
Developer April 2009 Percent May 2009 Percent Change
Apache 37,268,162 46.52% 38,170,144 46.89% 0.38
Microsoft 30,116,432 37.59% 29,049,223 35.69% -1.90
Google 6,131,966 7.65% 7,326,606 9.00% 1.35
nginx 2,602,109 3.25% 2,725,496 3.35% 0.10
qq.com 0 0.00% 46,046 0.06% 0.06
Totals for Active Servers Across All Domains June 2000 - May 2009
Market Share for Top Servers Across the Million Busiest Sites September 2008 - May 2009
Developer April 2009 Percent May 2009 Percent Change
Apache 663,649 67.56% 665,472 67.75% 0.19
Microsoft 185,763 18.91% 184,672 18.80% -0.11
nginx 31,064 3.16% 31,958 3.25% 0.09
Google 16,088 1.64% 17,058 1.74% 0.10

Posted by Netcraft on 27th May, 2009 in Web Server Survey