August 2009 Web Server Survey
31st August, 2009
In the August 2009 survey we received responses from 225,950,957 hostnames — 13.7M less than in July.
Much of the drop this month is due to the expiry of a large number of sites at The Planet, including 5 million sites in the .pl top-level domain all on one IP address, which were believed to be part of a linkfarm.
Lighttpd Sites
Lighttpd had a significant gain this month, rising to over two million sites, just under 1% of the survey. Lighttpd is a webserver designed for high performance environments. It has a small memory footprint, a large feature set and is licensed under a revised BSD license. Originally written by Jan Kneschke, Lighttpd is now maintained by a small team of developers, and now hosts a large number of popular and high traffic sites, including mininova.org and the controversial Pirate Bay.
Total Sites Across All Domains August 1995 - August 2009
Market Share for Top Servers Across All Domains August 1995 - August 2009
Top Developers
| Developer | July 2009 | Percent | August 2009 | Percent | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apache | 113,019,868 | 47.17% | 104,611,555 | 46.30% | -0.87 |
| Microsoft | 55,918,254 | 23.34% | 49,579,507 | 21.94% | -1.39 |
| qq.com | 30,447,369 | 12.71% | 30,278,988 | 13.40% | 0.69 |
| 14,226,904 | 5.94% | 14,213,976 | 6.29% | 0.35 | |
| nginx | 10,174,573 | 4.25% | 11,502,109 | 5.09% | 0.84 |
| lighttpd | 1,326,240 | 0.55% | 2,025,521 | 0.90% | 0.34 |
Active Sites
| Developer | July 2009 | Percent | August 2009 | Percent | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apache | 39,371,318 | 51.12% | 40,079,539 | 54.32% | 3.19 |
| Microsoft | 18,476,487 | 23.99% | 14,793,614 | 20.05% | -3.94 |
| 10,862,216 | 14.10% | 10,718,972 | 14.53% | 0.42 | |
| nginx | 3,496,153 | 4.54% | 3,851,569 | 5.22% | 0.68 |
| lighttpd | 235,718 | 0.31% | 249,729 | 0.34% | 0.03 |
Totals for Active Servers Across All Domains
June 2000 - August 2009
Market Share for Top Servers Across the Million Busiest Sites
| Developer | July 2009 | Percent | August 2009 | Percent | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apache | 663,253 | 66.82% | 664,295 | 66.90% | 0.09 |
| Microsoft | 181,188 | 18.25% | 180,160 | 18.14% | -0.11 |
| nginx | 34,098 | 3.43% | 35,479 | 3.57% | 0.14 |
| 19,092 | 1.92% | 19,875 | 2.00% | 0.08 |