Nginx Nginx replaces Apache in Top 1000 sites

According to w3techs.com web server survey http://w3techs.com/technologies/cross/web_server/ranking, Nginx has replaced Apache in Top 1000 web sites - Nginx 38.8% vs Apache 33.7%

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Nginx is just a whisker away from also overtaking Apache for Top 10000 sites too at Nginx 39.1% vs Apache 39.2%.

Although still along way for total site usage http://w3techs.com/technologies/overview/web_server/all but it's on the rise according to historical trends http://w3techs.com/technologies/history_overview/web_server

 

Yeah other interesting web server stats

http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2014/05/07/may-2014-web-server-survey.html

and

http://trends.builtwith.com/web-server

 

Indeed alot of the times spikes or drops in usage for web servers is determined by the larger web hosts i.e. Godaddy, Microsoft Azure etc