June 2022 Web Server Survey

In which June 2022 Poll from which we received responses 1,146,976,964 sites about 273.010.403 unique domains and 12,224,786 computers connected to the Internet. This equates to a loss of 8.75 million sites and 583,000 domains, but a gain of 155,000 computers.

Cloudflare saw strong growth this month, adding 2.99 million websites and 85,000 domains, representing a 4.64% growth in the number of websites. Cloudflare experienced a significant failure on June 21, affecting about half of all requests made to its network. The outage lasted about an hour and a half and affected a significant number of popular websites. 20.2% of the million most visited websites rely on Cloudflare (up 1,400 websites since last month).

The top three vendors by the million most visited websites metric — Apache, nginx, and Cloudflare — all have similar market share, although only Cloudflare gained market share this month. Apache saw the biggest loss, losing 2,190 websites (-0.96%), while Nginx lost 280 websites (-0.13%).

LiteSpeed ​​​​gained a significant number of websites with 2.96 million (+5.89%) and 171,000 (+2.21%) domains added – the second largest increase this month. The number of Internet-connected computers using LiteSpeed ​​also showed strong growth, increasing by 4,460 (+3.4%) to a total of 134,000.

nginx and Apache remain the top two server providers, although both saw similar losses of 6.52 million (-1.84%) and 6.18 million (-2.33%) websites respectively this month. Despite this, nginx added 795,000 (+1.06%) domains and saw continued growth in the number of computers connected to the internet, with 158,000 (+3.44%) computers. Conversely, Apache lost 1.07 million domains (-1.71%) and 25,700 (-0.74%) computers connected to the Internet.

Supplier News

• Apache httpd 2.4.54 was released on June 8, 2022. This release fixes several security issues, including several affecting mod_lua.
• nginx 1.23.0 was released on June 21, 2022. This is the first release in the 1.23.x mainline branch that will include newly developed features and bug fixes. In comparison, the 1.22.x stable branch released last month only gets major bug fixes from the 1.23 major release. The update includes several changes affecting headers, along with several bug fixes.
• njs 0.7.5 was released on June 21st along with nginx 1.23.0. njs is nginx’s JavaScript-based scripting language, and this update includes several small changes affecting headers, along with bug fixes.
• Lighttpd 1.4.65 was released on June 7th, 2022 and brings with it an implementation of WebSockets over HTTP/2. The release also includes an announcement of future planned behavior changes that include using strong, modern TLS cipher suites by default.
• Apple announced support for Private access tokens in upcoming versions of iOS and macOS. This is part of Privacy Passport Standard, a collaboration between Apple, Google, and Cloudflare that can replace CAPTCHAs across the web by providing a secure way for the device to confirm it’s an authentic device.
• Google Cloud recently added five new regional data centers, bringing the total number of available GCP regions to 34. The newly added regions were in Columbus, OH, Madrid, Dallas, TX, Milanand Paris.

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