April 2009 Web Server Survey

In the April 2009 survey we received responses from 231,510,169 sites. This represents an increase of over 6 million sites when compared with last month, with Google and nginx accounting for almost all of the changes. Apache remains in the lead, as it has since 1996, with a total of over 106 million sites, followed by Microsoft-IIS with over 67 million and QQ with almost 29 million.

Some interesting language specific servers which can be seen in this month's survey include the Ruby application server Mongrel , with just over 41 thousand sites, and the python based Zope with almost 46 thousand. The Pike and C based Caudium has almost 14 thousand sites, the Erlang based Yaws has about 70, and a newcomer, Salvia , which is a lightweight web server framework written in Haskell , has one.

Following on from last month's mention of fake server headers, where we saw the venerable ZX_Spectrum/1997 (Sinclair_BASIC) , this month we have hi , appearing as the server banner for twitter , which is currently the 432nd most popular site amongst our toolbar community.

 

Total Sites Across All Domains August 1995 - April 2009

 

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

 

Developer	March 2009	Percent	April 2009	Percent	Change
Apache	104,178,852	46.35%	106,368,727	45.95%	-0.41
Microsoft	66,229,250	29.47%	67,767,928	29.27%	-0.20
qq.com	28,905,129	12.86%	28,905,133	12.49%	-0.38
Google	5,403,930	2.40%	7,229,033	3.12%	0.72
nginx	3,838,784	1.71%	6,100,424	2.64%	0.93

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

Developer	March 2009	Percent	April 2009	Percent	Change
Apache	36,243,694	48.89%	37,268,162	46.52%	-2.38
Microsoft	27,854,444	37.57%	30,116,432	37.59%	0.02
Google	4,050,030	5.46%	6,131,966	7.65%	2.19
nginx	2,303,451	3.11%	2,602,109	3.25%	0.14
qq.com	46,048	0.06%	0	0.00%	-0.06

For more information on active servers, see Active Sites .

Market Share for Top Servers Across the Million Busiest Sites
September 2008 - April 2009

Developer	March 2009	Percent	April 2009	Percent	Change
Apache	666,485	67.90%	663,649	67.56%	-0.34
Microsoft	186,827	19.03%	185,763	18.91%	-0.12
nginx	30,642	3.12%	31,064	3.16%	0.04
Google	15,594	1.59%	16,088	1.64%	0.05

For more information, see Million Busiest Websites.