In the December 2022 survey we received responses from 1,125,374,532 sites across 271,238,722 domains and 12,234,425 web-facing computers. This reflects a loss of 9.7 million sites, 450,421 domains, and 72,200 web-facing computers.

Cloudflare continues its growth, gaining 1.5 million sites (+1.44%) and 309,670 domains (+1.21%). Cloudflare now accounts for 9.14% of sites and 9.57% of domains seen by Netcraft, up by 0.21pp and 0.13pp respectively.

Apache lost 7.4 million sites (-3.03%) and 15,439 web-facing computers (-0.46%). However, it saw a modest gain of 52,986 domains (+0.09%). nginx also saw significant loss of 5.5 million sites (-1.84%), 1.3 million domains (-1.77%), and 82,128 web-facing computers (-1.71%).

The largest percentage growth this month comes from LiteSpeed, with it gaining 1.1 million sites (+2.01%) and 170,873 domains (+2.03%). OpenResty also saw a significant growth of 1.1 million sites (+1.20%) but lost 135,748 domains (-0.34%).

In the top million busiest sites, Cloudflare continues its upward trend - gaining 809 of the top million sites, which increases its market share by 0.08pp to 21.08%. The gap between Cloudflare and the leader Apache, which lost 784 sites and 0.08pp market share, is down to just 0.51pp. In second place, nginx gained a modest 428 sites and 0.04pp market share.

Vendor news

• njs 0.7.9, the scripting language used to extend nginx, was released on 17th November 2022 with various bugfixes.
• Apache Tomcat versions 9.0.69 and 10.1.2 were released on 14th November 2022. Version 8.5.84 was released on 21st November 2022. All of these releases mostly contain bugfixes.
• AWS announced the new Europe (Zurich), Europe (Spain), and Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) Regions, bringing the total number of AWS Regions to 30. It also announced new Local Zones and various new features at AWS re:Invent 2022.

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