In the April 2024 survey we received responses from 1,092,963,063 sites across 267,934,761 domains and 12,872,291 web-facing computers. This reflects a gain of 2.8 million sites, a loss of 3.9 million domains, and a gain of 244,716 web-facing computers.

OpenResty was the only vendor to gain sites this month. It gained 5.0 million sites (+4.69%), increasing its market share to 10.2% (+0.43pp) of sites seen by Netcraft.

Cloudflare suffered the largest loss of 8.4 million sites (-6.84%) this month, reducing its market share to 10.4% (-0.80pp). Its loss was primarily driven by Freenom exiting the domain name business, resulting in the disappearance of almost all .tk, .cf and .gq sites. nginx experienced the next largest loss of 2.4 million sites (-0.98%).

Vendor news

• Apache 2.4.59 was released on April 4th, containing security and bug fixes. It also contains some new features, including a directive to configure CGI script timeouts, support for configuring the length of time DNS records for upstream proxy servers are cached, and support for passing Basic authentication credentials to upstream proxies.
• Following the announcement of freenginx in February, we saw 133 sites running freenginx in the April survey. freenginx versions 1.25.5 and 1.26.0 were released this month, with the latter being a stable release incorporating new features like HTTP/3 support from the 1.25.x mainline branch.
• nginx versions 1.25.5 and 1.26.0 were also released this month.
• LiteSpeed 6.2.2 was released on April 3rd, containing new features, improvements, and a bug fix.
• lighttpd 1.4.76 was released on April 12th. Its release process has been simplified to avoid similar supply chain attacks to the recent xz backdoor.

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