The latest release of the April 2022 Web Server Survey Report!

Netcraft's April 2022 global Web server survey report has been released. This report can help people understand the number of global websites and server market share.

For this survey, Netcraft received responses from 1,160,964,134 sites, involving 271,960,629 unique domains and 11,974,636 Web-facing computers. This reflects a loss of 8.66 million sites and 217,000 domains, but an increase of 97,400 computers.

Among the top ten vendors, nginx acquired the largest number of domains and computers this month, maintaining its lead in both metrics. The net growth of its 537,000 domains brings its total number of domains to 73.8 million and increases its market share in this metric to 27.1%. Combined with the net loss of 573,000 domains powered by Apache , this ultimately resulted in nginx's market share lead over Apache expanding from 3.63 percentage points to 4.04 percentage points. [Recommended: Nginx Tutorial]

The number of Web-oriented computers running nginx increased by 80,200 units ( 1.78%), and its market share That pushed up to 38.3%, while Apache dropped to 29.0%. nginx also continues to have the largest website market share (31.1%) despite losing more than half a million for the month.

Out of the top 1 million websites, Cloudflare had the biggest gain with 3,350 websites as it continues its march towards the lead. Apache still leads the top 1 million with 229,000 sites, but lost 1,700 sites this month; nginx leads the list with 218,000 sites after losing 2,250 sites Ranked second. Cloudflare Now has 199,000 sites, and if it maintains this growth rate, it is expected to surpass nginx and Apache by the end of this year. Across all sites, Cloudflare lost 38,400 sites but gained 115,000 domains. [Recommended: Apache Usage Tutorial]

OpenResty is the main provider with the most websites this month, with its total number increasing by 1.47 million to 93 million ( 1.61%), it also gained 6,890 Web-facing computers.

While most top providers lost active sites this month, Pepyaka saw a significant increase of 1.22 million active sites ( 27.6%). This server is primarily used by the Wix web development platform, which switched from using nginx in 2018. It is currently the 8th most used web server by active websites and the 11th most used website. The similarity in version numbers since 2018 suggests that Pepyaka may be based on the mainline version of nginx.

Looking further down, GHS gained 1.08 million ( 36.7%) sites and 554,000 ( 35.5%) domains . GHS (Google Hosting Server) is one of Google's proprietary web servers available to websites registered through Google domains. It is also used to redirect traffic from googlepages.com sites created using Google Page Creator. When the site creation service shut down in 2009, existing pages were migrated to Google Sites, which hosts user content in subdirectories under the sites.google.com hostname.

The following is the detailed data:

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## This article is a translation. The original English address is: https://news.netcraft.com/archives/2022/04/27/april-2022-web-server-survey.html