In the August 2023 study we got reactions from 1,093,748,332 websites throughout 255,459,417 domains and 12,162,471 web-facing computer systems. This shows a loss of 7.5 million websites and 259,924 domains, and a gain of 36,515 web-facing computer systems.
OpenResty had the biggest development this month, getting 2.1 million websites (+2.29%) and 98,319 domains (+0.24%). Its market share now stands at 8.71% of websites and 15.8% of domains seen by Netcraft, up by 0.25 pp and 0.05 pp respectively. Within the leading million websites, OpenResty likewise had the biggest gain of 78 websites, increasing its market share by 0.01 pp to 1.02%.
Microsoft saw the biggest loss this month, losing 3.1 million websites (-9.52%), 123,295 domains (-1.74%) and 10,571 computer systems (-0.89%). Microsoft now represents 2.73% of websites seen by Netcraft, down by 0.27 pp. Cloudflare likewise lost 2.1 million websites (-1.73%) and 874,997 domains (-3.36%) this month. Nevertheless, Cloudflare still holds a considerable market share of 10.8% of websites and 9.86% of domains, down by -0.12 pp and -0.33 pp respectively.
Apache and nginx likewise experienced losses in websites (-1.0 million and -561,031 respectively), however stayed consistent in market share: nginx now represents 23.7% of websites seen by Netcraft, up by 0.11 pp, and Apache’s market share increased by 0.05 pp to 20.9% of websites.
AWS reveals IPv4 rates modification
AWS has actually revealed that in-use public IPv4 addresses will no longer be totally free of charge From February 2024, users of AWS-owned public IPv4 addresses within their VPC will be charged at a flat rate of one half-cent per hour, or approximately $3.75 each month, showing the worth of an IPv4 address within a progressively limited supply.
Netcraft saw simply over 2 million active web-facing IPv4 addresses at Amazon in August. At sale price, these would supply Amazon around $90M in yearly income. While helpful, this is a relatively unrefined quote: a number of these spotted IP addresses will not be chargeable– for instance those utilized by CloudFront or S3– and some chargeable IPv4 addresses will not be openly observable.
The modification will not affect Bring your own IP addresses (BYOIP) owned by consumers. Hilco Streambank reports current auction outcomes at around $30-$ 40 per IPv4 address, which might make BYOIP a more enticing alternative for bigger users. To minimize the effect of the modification upon people and little companies, the AWS Free Tier will consist of 750 hours of public IPv4 address use each month.
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Designer | July 2023 | Percent | August 2023 | Percent | Modification |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
nginx | 259,748,774 | 23.59% | 259,187,743 | 23.70% | 0.11 |
Apache | 229,147,049 | 20.81% | 228,121,898 | 20.86% | 0.05 |
Cloudflare | 120,472,080 | 10.94% | 118,391,275 | 10.82% | -0.12 |
OpenResty | 93,103,726 | 8.45% | 95,236,092 | 8.71% | 0.25 |

Designer | July 2023 | Percent | August 2023 | Percent | Modification |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Apache | 41,065,822 | 20.26% | 40,880,916 | 20.36% | 0.10 |
nginx | 38,440,897 | 18.97% | 37,182,741 | 18.52% | -0.45 |
Cloudflare | 23,794,179 | 11.74% | 23,781,740 | 11.85% | 0.10 |
21,249,494 | 10.49% | 19,790,685 | 9.86% | -0.63 |
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Designer | July 2023 | Percent | August 2023 | Percent | Modification |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Cloudflare | 220,345 | 22.03% | 220,134 | 22.01% | -0.02 |
nginx | 210,615 | 21.06% | 208,602 | 20.86% | -0.20 |
Apache | 208,519 | 20.85% | 206,784 | 20.68% | -0.17 |
Microsoft | 51,624 | 5.16% | 48,900 | 4.89% | -0.27 |

Designer | July 2023 | Percent | August 2023 | Percent | Modification |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
nginx | 4,732,694 | 39.03% | 4,763,036 | 39.16% | 0.13 |
Apache | 3,220,487 | 26.56% | 3,214,582 | 26.43% | -0.13 |
Microsoft | 1,194,138 | 9.85% | 1,183,567 | 9.73% | -0.12 |

Designer | July 2023 | Percent | August 2023 | Percent | Modification |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Apache | 58,750,457 | 22.97% | 58,488,423 | 22.90% | -0.08 |
nginx | 56,120,085 | 21.95% | 56,665,884 | 22.18% | 0.24 |
OpenResty | 40,146,187 | 15.70% | 40,244,506 | 15.75% | 0.05 |
Cloudflare | 26,057,585 | 10.19% | 25,182,588 | 9.86% | -0.33 |