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Nginx is now the most popular web server, overtaking Apache

Posted by Matthias Gelbmann on 4 May 2021 in News, Nginx, Web Servers

Summary:

For the first time since we started our surveys in 2009, Apache has lost the first spot as the most popular web server to Nginx.

Nginx had a market share of 3.7% back in 2009, Apache had over 73% and Microsoft-IIS had around 20%. The web server field today is considerably more diverse. We now monitor 98 web server technologies. Nginx is leading with just over one third of the market, at 33.8%. Apache is basically head-to-head at the moment, but declining. The gap between Apache and Nginx was still 6.6% one year ago.
 


The Cloudflare Server at rank 3 is particularly interesting in that context, as it is derived from Nginx. So are two more web server in the top 15, namely Tengine and ArvanNginx. If we combine all these Nginx-based technologies, they occupy a very impressive 52.4% of the market.

Nginx has dominated the high-traffic part of the market for a long time. It became the most used web server among the top 1000 sites in 2013, and that hasn't changed since then. Nginx is now used by 47.1% of the top 1000 sites and by 44.6% of the top 10k sites, clearly ahead of the competition.
 


Nginx is gaining market share at the moment mostly from Apache and Microsoft-IIS, but at the same time it is losing sites to Cloudflare Server and to LiteSpeed.

Originally developed in Russia, that is still their strongest market. 79.1% of Russian sites rely on Nginx, and that goes up to 88.3% for example on the .москва domain for the city of Moscow. Nginx is now also the leading web server also in China, Iran, Greece, Finland, Norway and New Zealand. It is still behind Apache in most of Western Europe, Africa, India, Japan and the Americas.

We see Nginx often used together with other web servers. One popular combination, for example, is to use it as front end server with Node.js. 53.3% of the sites that use Node.js also use Nginx. Only 7.3% of Node.js sites also use Apache, by comparison.

Congratulations to Nginx to reaching this milestone. With so many websites and companies relying on its performance and stability, it certainly has become a very significant part of the internet infrastructure.

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Please note, that all trends and figures mentioned in that article are valid at the time of writing. Our statistics are updated frequently, and these trends and figures are likely to change over time.

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