July 2018 Web Server Survey

In the July 2018 survey we received responses from 1,663,673,364 sites, 220,573,018 unique domains, and 7,734,417 web-facing computers. This reflects a gain of 33.4 million sites, 2.80 million domains, and 120k web-facing computers.

In the web-facing computer market, nginx experienced the largest increase (+3.24%), contributing more than half of the overall growth and surpassing two million web-facing computers this month. As a result, it was the only major vendor to experience a gain in market share. nginx also experienced the largest growth in terms of active sites (+7.87%), and top million sites (+0.71%), further increasing its market share in those metrics. Although nginx has slightly fewer domains than last month, it is generally seeing long-term growth in all metrics, and has gained around 10 million domains over each of the past three years.

Apache remains ahead in terms of domains, active sites, web-facing computers, and sites within the top million. However, it continues to see both long and short-term losses in many metrics, with steadily decreasing counts of domains (-0.53%), active sites (-1.15%), and top million sites (-0.98%).

Microsoft's server software leads by total number of sites, of which it had 670 million this month (a 40.28% share), but sits behind Apache and nginx in most other metrics. Microsoft retains second place in total number of domains with a 26.02% market share, and experienced the largest increase this month of nearly 1.4 million domains. This has increased the gap between it and third-placed nginx, which has been steadily gaining on Microsoft, now leaving them 3.24 percentage points apart.

The one metric in which all major vendors continue to see ubiquitous long-term growth is web-facing computers. Since July 2017, the total number of web-facing computers has increased by 1.14 million (+17.3%). This rate of growth is more than double that seen in the year before between July 2016 and July 2017. Although there have been overall increases in the number of computers running Apache and Microsoft webservers, both have continued to lose market share to their faster growing competitor, nginx.

Google's .app TLD takes off

.app is one of many new gTLDs from ICANN's New gTLD Program. ICANN appointed control of the .app TLD to Google after it won the rights in a $25 million auction against twelve other applicants in February 2015. Google hopes that the appropriately named .app TLD will appeal to websites providing applications and application-related services.

The .app TLD only opened for public registration fairly recently on the 8^th May 2018. This month's survey found 185k unique domains running websites under the .app TLD. Whilst many of these domains return parking pages, a number of fully-fledged sites, such as cash.app, have already been launched, with the Netcraft survey detecting over 15k active sites.

One of .app's marketed features is its inclusion within browsers' HTTP Strict Transport Security (HSTS) preload lists. The .app TLD is one of only thirteen where an HSTS preload policy has been applied to a whole TLD. This TLD-wide HSTS policy means that modern browsers will only access .app websites over a secure HTTPS connection, protecting users from trivial man-in-the-middle attacks.

Developer	June 2018	Percent	July 2018	Percent	Change
Microsoft	601,258,605	36.88%	670,209,364	40.28%	3.41
Apache	361,165,378	22.15%	366,023,119	22.00%	-0.15
nginx	336,529,382	20.64%	287,045,450	17.25%	-3.39
Google	22,946,307	1.41%	23,347,290	1.40%	-0.00

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Posted by Netcraft on 19th July, 2018 in Web Server Survey

Most Reliable Hosting Company Sites in June 2018

Rank	Performance Graph	OS	Outage hh:mm:ss	Failed Req%	DNS	Connect	First byte	Total
1	www.choopa.com	Linux	0:00:00	0.000	0.312	0.009	0.237	0.238
2	Bigstep	Linux	0:00:00	0.004	0.251	0.074	0.150	0.150
3	Hyve Managed Hosting	Linux	0:00:00	0.004	0.185	0.077	0.155	0.155
4	CWCS	Linux	0:00:00	0.004	0.300	0.085	0.163	0.163
5	www.dinahosting.com	Linux	0:00:00	0.004	0.309	0.090	0.182	0.182
6	GoDaddy.com Inc	Linux	0:00:00	0.009	0.528	0.005	0.020	0.020
7	www.viawest.com	Linux	0:00:00	0.009	0.488	0.009	0.266	0.266
8	EveryCity	SmartOS	0:00:00	0.009	0.239	0.072	0.378	0.378
9	Swishmail	FreeBSD	0:00:00	0.009	0.255	0.086	0.171	0.172
10	One.com	Linux	0:00:00	0.013	0.359	0.058	0.175	0.175

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The most reliable hosting company website in June 2018 belonged to choopa.com, it was the only site to respond to all of Netcraft's requests. Choopa.com offers cloud hosting, dedicated hosting and colocation in its own primary facility in Piscataway, New Jersey as well as smaller facilities in Los Angeles, Amsterdam, and Tokyo. The website has achieved an uptime of 100% over the past 21 months, and a 99.98% uptime since Netcraft began monitoring the website in December 2009.

The next four hosting company websites only failed to respond to a single request each during June. The lower average connect time for BigStep's website, taking an average of 74ms, grants it second place above Hyve Managed Hosting, CWCS and dinahosting.com. Bigstep offers "bare metal" cloud hosting from datacentres in the UK, USA and Romania. The service claims to provide the flexibility of cloud hosting but without the associated overhead and performance reductions of virtualization.

Third placed Hyve Managed Hosting's website has appeared in the top ten 11 times in the past 12 months, the most of any monitored website. Netcraft has never observed an outage for www.hyve.com, giving it a 100% uptime record since Netcraft began monitoring it in June 2016.

Eight of the top ten most reliable hosting company websites used the Linux operating system in June. FreeBSD and SmartOS both make a single appearance to complete the top ten.

Netcraft measures and makes available the response times of around thirty leading hosting providers' sites. The performance measurements are made at fifteen minute intervals from separate points around the internet, and averages are calculated over the immediately preceding 24 hour period.

From a customer's point of view, the percentage of failed requests is more pertinent than outages on hosting companies' own sites, as this gives a pointer to reliability of routing, and this is why we choose to rank our table by fewest failed requests, rather than shortest periods of outage. In the event the number of failed requests are equal then sites are ranked by average connection times.

Information on the measurement process and current measurements is available.

Posted by Netcraft on 4th July, 2018 in Hosting, Performance

June 2018 Web Server Survey

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 3^rd 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

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Posted by Netcraft on 13th June, 2018 in Web Server Survey

Most Reliable Hosting Company Sites in May 2018

Rank	Performance Graph	OS	Outage hh:mm:ss	Failed Req%	DNS	Connect	First byte	Total
1	Netcetera	Linux	0:00:00	0.000	0.221	0.089	0.178	0.178
2	One.com	Linux	0:00:00	0.004	0.376	0.060	0.176	0.176
3	ServerStack	Linux	0:00:00	0.004	0.275	0.094	0.187	0.187
4	Pair Networks	FreeBSD	0:00:00	0.004	0.414	0.094	0.188	0.188
5	www.viawest.com	Linux	0:00:00	0.008	0.503	0.009	0.261	0.262
6	Rackspace	Linux	0:00:00	0.008	0.788	0.009	0.020	0.021
7	www.choopa.com	Linux	0:00:00	0.013	0.328	0.009	0.226	0.226
8	EveryCity	SmartOS	0:00:00	0.013	0.252	0.075	0.346	0.347
9	vXtream Ltd	Linux	0:00:00	0.013	0.260	0.077	0.154	0.154
10	Webair	Linux	0:00:00	0.013	0.367	0.083	0.164	0.165

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Netcetera had the most reliable hosting company website in May 2018, being the only site to successfully respond to all of Netcraft's requests. Netcetera provides carbon-neutral hosting solutions from its data centre in the Isle of Man, and has managed to maintain a 99.98% uptime over the last 10 years.

There were three hosting company websites with only one failed request in May. Out of these, One.com had the fastest average connection time of 60ms, granting it second place. Founded in 2002, the company was established in Denmark, and offers a variety of internet services including a no-code website builder, 1-click WordPress installations, domain registrations, email hosting, and Office 365. Third place was very close, with ServerStack claiming the position with an average connection time of 93.5ms—just half a millisecond faster than Pair Networks in fourth place. ServerStack has maintained an impressive 99.98% uptime since Netcraft started monitoring its website 5 years ago.

ViaWest, Rackspace, and Choopa all had very fast average connection times of around 9ms, but only achieved 5^th, 6^th, and 7^th place respectively due to each having failed to respond to two or three requests.

Both EveryCity and vXtream's websites have managed to achieve a top ten position in every month of 2018 so far.

Linux was the operating system of choice on 8 out of the top 10 most reliable hosting company sites in May, with FreeBSD and SmartOS each making a single appearance.

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Posted by Netcraft on 6th June, 2018 in Hosting, Performance

May 2018 Web Server Survey

In the May 2018 survey we received responses from 1,584,940,345 sites, 217,875,435 unique domains, and 7,452,628 web-facing computers. This reflects a loss of 198 million sites, but a gain of 3.36 million domains and 65,600 web-facing computers.

nginx saw moderate growth this month, gaining 1.17 million unique domains. This has increased its market share of domains by 0.19 percentage points, even though it lost 44.2 million sites.

The nginx ecosystem has continued to evolve over the past month, with some notable software releases:

nginx 1.14.0 was released on the 17 April, which adds HTTP/2 server push support to the nginx stable stream (the recommended release stream for production web servers). HTTP/2 server push can improve the performance of some websites by pre-emptively pushing assets to browser clients, avoiding the need for the client to explicitly make additional GET requests for assets on a page such as images, stylesheets & JavaScript.
The first production-ready release of NGINX Unit 1.0 was released on the 12 April, ending the product's beta period. NGINX Unit is a web application server that can serve sandboxed Go, Perl, PHP, Python and Ruby applications on the same server. It is unique in allowing dynamic reloading & remote configuration via a REST API rather than individual configuration files. A bugfix release, NGINX Unit 1.1, was subsequently made available on 26 April.
MySQL monitoring support was added to NGINX Amplify on 23 April. This commercial SaaS monitoring product from NGINX Inc. could increase the appeal of transitioning MySQL & PHP applications from Apache-based stacks to nginx-based ones.

Despite losing 59.7 million sites this month, Apache still powers sites on the largest number of unique domains. Apache is also running on 36% of the world's top 1 million websites – 12 percentage points ahead of its closest competitor, nginx.

There was also a 21% reduction of the number websites running Microsoft web server software this month, with the majority of these losses (77%) coming from hosting provider Raksmart, which lost 107 million of these sites. Despite this, the hosting provider gained 49,600 domains that point to Microsoft web servers. Many of the lost websites featured automatically generated content, and so were not counted as Active Sites.

Developer	April 2018	Percent	May 2018	Percent	Change
Microsoft	658,800,756	36.94%	518,826,524	32.73%	-4.21
Apache	456,169,336	25.58%	396,463,723	25.01%	-0.57
nginx	403,381,961	22.62%	359,163,599	22.66%	0.04
Google	22,460,562	1.26%	22,427,752	1.42%	0.16

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Posted by Netcraft on 29th May, 2018 in Web Server Survey

Most Reliable Hosting Company Sites in April 2018

Rank	Performance Graph	OS	Outage hh:mm:ss	Failed Req%	DNS	Connect	First byte	Total
1	GoDaddy.com Inc	Linux	0:00:00	0.000	0.515	0.005	0.028	0.028
2	Swishmail	FreeBSD	0:00:00	0.000	0.247	0.085	0.170	0.171
3	Rackspace	Linux	0:00:00	0.004	0.744	0.007	0.020	0.020
4	New York Internet (NYI)	FreeBSD	0:00:00	0.004	0.571	0.062	0.128	0.128
5	XILO Communications Ltd.	Linux	0:00:00	0.004	0.316	0.073	0.145	0.145
6	EveryCity	SmartOS	0:00:00	0.004	0.234	0.073	0.336	0.336
7	Hyve Managed Hosting	Linux	0:00:00	0.004	0.182	0.076	0.151	0.151
8	vXtream Ltd	Linux	0:00:00	0.004	0.239	0.077	0.154	0.154
9	CWCS	Linux	0:00:00	0.004	0.311	0.107	0.198	0.198
10	Pair Networks	FreeBSD	0:00:00	0.009	0.368	0.097	0.192	0.192

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GoDaddy had the most reliable hosting company website in April 2018, with zero failed requests, and also with the fastest average connection time of 5ms. GoDaddy provides a wide range of hosting and domain registration services, including its website builder software which is designed to give small businesses a web presence.

Second place hosting company Swishmail was the only other hosting company website to successfully respond to all requests in April. Swishmail has had one of the top 10 most reliable hosting company websites for the past 3 months in a row. Swishmail offers both managed email & web hosting plans using FreeBSD servers running Qmail SMTP & Apache web-server software.

The next 7 top hosting company websites all had the same number of failed requests; however Rackspace maintained its place in the top 3 for another month with its faster average connection time. Rackspace provides a range of managed dedicated & cloud hosting solutions from datacentres located on 4 continents. Through its multi-cloud solution, Rackspace also provides management services for customers using other cloud platforms such as OpenStack, Azure, or AWS.

New York Internet (NYI) made the top 10 again in April. The hosting company clinched 4^th place with a slower average connection time than rival Rackspace. NYI offers bare metal, cloud and colocation services in its US datacentres.

All of the 3 hosting company websites served by FreeBSD web servers that Netcraft monitors made the top 10 in April. The remaining 7 hosting company websites in the top 10 were served by web-servers running on either Linux or SmartOS operating systems.

Information on the measurement process and current measurements is available.

Posted by Netcraft on 7th May, 2018 in Hosting, Performance

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