In the February 2024 survey we received responses from 1,086,916,398 sites across 271,141,726 domains and 12,489,253 web-facing computers. This reflects an increase of 7.8 million sites, 694,270 domains, and 151,543 web-facing computers.
OpenResty made the largest gain of 4.7 million sites (+4.79%) this month. It now accounts for 9.49% (+0.37pp) of sites seen by Netcraft. Cloudflare saw the next largest gain of 1.9 million sites (+1.58%).
nginx experienced the largest loss of 4.4 million sites (-1.75%) this month, reducing its market share to 22.6% (-0.57pp). LiteSpeed suffered the next largest loss, down by 515,685 sites (-1.03%).
Vendor news
- nginx core developer Maxim Dounin announced freenginx, a fork of the nginx project, due to disagreements with nginx owner F5 over how the open-source nginx project was run.
- nginx 1.25.4 was released on February 14th, containing fixes for two denial of service vulnerabilities in nginx’s QUIC module. Dounin disagreed with F5’s decision to assign CVEs for these issues.
- AWS began charging for public IPv4 addresses in February, after announcing the change last year. On January 25th, Amazon also announced new instance bundles for Amazon Lightsail, allowing IPv6-only Lightsail instances to be created quickly.
- Apache Tomcat versions 8.5.99, 9.0.86, 10.1.19 and 11.0.0-M17 were released on February 19th, adding CSRF protection improvements.
- lighttpd version 1.4.74 was released on February 19th.
- Amazon announced new AWS Local Zones in