Nginx Netcraft Web Server Survey December 2016 for Nginx, Apache & IIS

eva2000 · Dec 26, 2016

December 2016 Netcraft Web Server Survey results are comparing adoption and usage rates for web servers such as Nginx, Apache, IIS, Litespeed etc December 2016 Web Server Survey | Netcraft

In the December 2016 survey we received responses from 1,739,031,487 sites and 6,169,471 web-facing computers; this reflects a large increase of 302 million sites, but a small loss of 55,900 computers.

All three of the largest server vendors gained sites this month, with growth concentrated at a handful of lesser-known web hosting providers. These changes have triggered large jumps in market share, with nginx (+3.2 percentage points) and Microsoft (+1.6 p.p.) gaining, and Apache losing (-2.2 p.p.).

The growth in number of sites was not reflected in other metrics this month, however, with small drops being seen in both the total number of web-facing computers (-0.9%) and the number of active sites (-0.8%).

Nginx was the only major web server vendor to experience gains across all metrics this month, including active sites, web-facing computers, and the million busiest sites. It now stands only 390,000 computers (6 percentage points) behind second place Microsoft, having surpassed Microsoft in terms of active sites in January 2012, and the top million busiest sites in May 2013.

Previously the 10th most commonly seen web server in terms of active sites, “Webs.com/1.0”, has vanished this month after the website builder began using the Cloudflare CDN service. Cloudflare uses a customised version of nginx (cloudflare-nginx), that powered over 3.6 million active sites in the December survey.
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The year also saw the notable rise of OpenResty: in January, OpenResty was being used by 760,000 sites, 200,000 active sites, and just 3,100 web-facing computers; but in September, tumblr.com switched from using nginx to OpenResty for millions of Tumblr blogs. The number of sites using OpenResty in December is now nearly 15 million, the number of active sites is 5.8 million, and the number of web-facing computers seen running OpenResty has increased to nearly 8,000. The server is now the 9th most popular by number of web-facing computers.
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FYI, Centmin Mod uses the signature = 'nginx centminmod' so alot of usage trackers would lump it in with nginx so far.

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