In the February 2025 survey we received responses from 1,180,650,484 sites across 274,656,941 domains and 13,480,350 web-facing computers. This reflects an increase of 19.2 million sites, 1.3 million domains, and 56,361 web-facing computers.
nginx made the largest gain of 12.5 million sites (+5.51%), now accounting for 20.3% (+0.74pp) of sites seen by Netcraft. Cloudflare experienced the next largest gain of 3.9 million sites (+2.68%).
OpenResty suffered the largest loss this month, reducing its market share to 2.99%. Apache experienced the next largest loss of 4.5 million sites.
Vendor news
- Apache httpd 2.4.63 was released on January 23rd, primarily containing bug fixes.
- F5 announced that the nginx documentation was open-sourced on January 28th, hosted in a new GitHub repository. F5 also launched the new NGINX Community Forum on February 4th.
- nginx 1.27.4 was released on February 5th, fixing a vulnerability that allowed SSL client certificate validation to be bypassed in certain conditions. It also adds support for caching SSL certificates loaded dynamically based on a variable like the server name.
- Apache Tomcat versions 9.0.100, 10.1.36, and 11.0.4 were released on February 17th and 18th.
- LiteSpeed 6.3.2 was released on February 18th, fixing hash collision vulnerability in its QUIC implementation. The release also contains a range of features and bug fixes, including improvements to LiteSpeed’s anti-denial of service attack support.
| Developer | January 2025 | Percent | February 2025 | Percent | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| nginx | 227,636,798 | 19.60% | 240,182,690 | 20.34% | 0.74 |
| Apache | 196,934,678 | 16.96% | 192,401,922 | 16.30% | -0.66 |
| Cloudflare | 146,502,560 | 12.61% | 150,432,756 | 12.74% | 0.13 |
| 61,978,277 | 5.34% | 62,745,061 | 5.31% | -0.02 |
| Developer | January 2025 | Percent | February 2025 | Percent | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| nginx | 36,827,229 | 18.89% | 36,179,069 | 18.38% | -0.51 |
| Cloudflare | 32,122,224 | 16.48% | 34,245,606 | 17.40% | 0.92 |
| Apache | 33,614,146 | 17.24% | 32,549,711 | 16.54% | -0.70 |
| 18,317,836 | 9.40% | 18,744,996 | 9.52% | 0.13 |
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| Developer | January 2025 | Percent | February 2025 | Percent | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cloudflare | 237,838 | 23.78% | 229,874 | 22.99% | -0.80 |
| nginx | 198,786 | 19.88% | 201,058 | 20.11% | 0.23 |
| Apache | 177,682 | 17.77% | 178,287 | 17.83% | 0.06 |
| Microsoft | 41,646 | 4.16% | 41,612 | 4.16% | -0.00 |
| Developer | January 2025 | Percent | February 2025 | Percent | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| nginx | 5,307,532 | 39.54% | 5,319,894 | 39.46% | -0.07 |
| Apache | 3,088,215 | 23.01% | 3,079,017 | 22.84% | -0.16 |
| Microsoft | 1,166,024 | 8.69% | 1,166,631 | 8.65% | -0.03 |
| Developer | January 2025 | Percent | February 2025 | Percent | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apache | 53,044,316 | 19.41% | 51,860,896 | 18.88% | -0.52 |
| nginx | 50,176,503 | 18.36% | 50,684,106 | 18.45% | 0.10 |
| Cloudflare | 27,715,054 | 10.14% | 28,694,732 | 10.45% | 0.31 |
| LiteSpeed | 11,135,629 | 4.07% | 11,146,952 | 4.06% | -0.02 |