Nginx is now the most popular web server, overtaking Apache

GS3 · Post by **GS3** » Wed May 05, 2021 6:58 pm

https://w3techs.com/blog/entry/nginx_is ... ing_apache

Nginx had a market share of 3.7% back in 2009, Apache had over 73% and Microsoft-IIS had around 20%. The web server field today is considerably more diverse. We now monitor 98 web server technologies. Nginx is leading with just over one third of the market, at 33.8%. Apache is basically head-to-head at the moment, but declining. The gap between Apache and Nginx was still 6.6% one year ago.

The Cloudflare Server at rank 3 is particularly interesting in that context, as it is derived from Nginx. So are two more web server in the top 15, namely Tengine and ArvanNginx. If we combine all these Nginx-based technologies, they occupy a very impressive 52.4% of the market.

Nginx has dominated the high-traffic part of the market for a long time. It became the most used web server among the top 1000 sites in 2013, and that hasn't changed since then. Nginx is now used by 47.1% of the top 1000 sites and by 44.6% of the top 10k sites, clearly ahead of the competition.