In the March 2023 survey we received responses from 1,116,018,952 sites across 269,281,081 domains and 12,106,182 web-facing computers. This reflects a loss of 11.6 million sites, 1.4 million domains, and 36,610 web-facing computers.
This month, for the first time, nginx overtook Apache within the top million busiest sites. nginx gained 1,447 sites, which increased its market share by 0.14pp to 21.37%, compared to Apache at 21.18% (-0.16pp). This allowed it to regain 2nd place, which it lost when Cloudflare overtook both to claim the top spot in January.
nginx was created by Igor Sysoev, with development starting in Spring 2002, and it first became publicly available in October 2004. It slowly gained popularity over the following years, largely due to its ability to handle a much large number of connections with a lower memory footprint compared to Apache. NGINX, Inc. was founded in 2011 to provide commercial support for nginx while maintaining the open source version. Igor left NGINX, Inc. at the start of 2022 after having worked on nginx for 20 years.
nginx first featured in the Web Server Survey in January 2008. When we started publishing our top million busiest sites metric in April 2009, nginx was already 3rd with a market share of 3.16% behind Microsoft (18.91%) and Apache (67.56%). It overtook Microsoft in May 2013 and remained in 2nd place until January this year. When looking at all the sites in the survey, not just the top million busiest sites, nginx overtook Apache to become the market leader in April 2019. It now has a market share of 25.94%, ahead of Apache (20.58%) and Cloud
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