In the October 2023 survey we received responses from 1,093,294,946 sites across 267,962,271 domains and 12,371,536 web-facing computers. This reflects an increase of 8.3 million sites, 13.2 million domains, and 96,682 web-facing computers.

The largest gains this month came from Apache, which gained 19.6 million sites (+8.51%), OpenResty, which gained 5.7 million domains (+14.9%), and nginx, which gained 49,104 web-facing computers (+1.01%).

The largest losses came from LiteSpeed, which lost 1.4 million sites (-2.53%), and Google, which lost 345,532 domains (-9.96%). No major vendor saw losses in web-facing computers this month.

Skyrock.com social network closure

The social network Skyrock.com closed on 21st August. It was rebranded from Skyblog.com in 2007 and became popular in France. The closure caused a loss of 8.2 million active sites this month.

Vendor news

• Apache Tomcat versions 8.5.95, 9.0.82, 10.1.15, and 11.0.0-M13 were released this month, fixing regressions in the previous version that broke the Tomcat JBDC connection pool and HTTP compression.
• Lighttpd version 1.4.72 was released on October 6th.
• Windows Server 2012/R2 reached end of support on October 10th.
• Google shared an update on its progress on the already announced new regions in Greece, Mexico, Aotearoa New Zealand, Norway, Saudi Arabia, and Sweden.
• AWS announced the general availability of Amazon Bedrock, a managed generative AI service.

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