January 2009 Web Server Survey

In the January 2009 survey we received responses from 185,497,213 sites, reflecting an uncharacteristic monthly loss of 1.23 million sites.

Apache's market share grew by more than 1 percentage point this month, extending its lead over Microsoft IIS, which has fallen to less than a third of the market. In total, Apache gained 1.27 million sites this month.

Microsoft showed the largest loss this month, after more than 2 million blogging sites running on Microsoft-IIS websites expired from the survey.

GFE, which is primarily used by Google's Blogger service to publish blogs under the blogspot.com domain, lost nearly 600 thousand sites, while nginx continues to grow and increases its market share to 1.87%.

Further down the field, the number of sites hosted on httpd and WebserverX both increased by more than 20%. Both web servers take a relatively small share of the market, however, with httpd growing to 236 thousand sites and WebserverX growing to 154 thousand.

 

Total Sites Across All Domains August 1995 - January 2009

 

Market Share for Top Servers Across All Domains August 1995 - January 2009

 

Top Developers

Developer	Dec-08	Share	Jan-09	Share	Change
Apache	95,678,052	51.24%	96,947,298	52.26%	1.02%
Microsoft	63,126,940	33.81%	61,038,371	32.91%	-0.90%
Google	10,455,103	5.60%	9,868,819	5.32%	-0.28%
nginx	3,354,329	1.80%	3,462,551	1.87%	0.07%
lighttpd	3,046,333	1.63%	2,989,416	1.61%	-0.02%

Active Sites

Developer	Dec-08	Share	Jan-09	Share	Change
Apache	35,125,901	48.38%	36,062,915	50.33%	1.95%
Microsoft	24,111,817	33.21%	22,645,049	31.61%	-1.60%
Google	7,874,043	10.84%	7,302,578	10.19%	-0.65%
nginx	1,978,479	2.72%	2,040,413	2.85%	0.12%
YTS	842,539	1.16%	864,975	1.21%	0.05%

Totals for Active Servers Across All Domains
June 2000 - January 2009

A more detailed list of servers is given here .