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Technologies > Web Servers > Nginx > Reports Overview > Market Report

Nginx Market Report

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This extensive report shows many detailed statistics of the web server market with a specific focus on Nginx.

Our technology market report is a detailed monthly report on the usage of Nginx as web server on websites. The report comes via email as a PDF file and has over 440 pages covering this information:

  • Web Servers Industry Reports
    • Usage Report
      How popular is each of the web servers? Shows percentages of usage for all 104 web servers that we monitor. Also shows how much these figures changed compared to the last month and to the last year.
    • Historical Trend Report
      How did the popularity of the web servers change over time? Shows tables and diagrams of historical trends of usage for all web servers since January 2014. Please note, that we permanently keep adding more web servers to our surveys, therefore not all of them cover the entire time frame.
    • Growth Rate Report
      Which are the fastest growing web servers? Shows the current growth rates in the usage of all web servers both in absolute figures and percentages in the last month and in the last year.
    • New Site Usage Report
      How popular is each of the web servers among new sites? Shows percentages of usage for all web servers among sites that were first visited in the last month, because they have only recently entered the top 10 million sites.
    • Top Site Usage Report
      Which web servers are primarily used by high traffic sites? Shows for each web server the share of top sites among all the sites that use that specific web server.
    • Page Speed Report
      What is the average speed when loading pages of different web servers? Shows for each of the 33 web servers, for which we have at least 100 measurements, the average Time to First Byte (TTFB) and Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) measurements, obtained from Google's Chrome User Experience Report (CrUX).
  • Nginx Reports
    • Historical Trend Report
      How did the popularity of Nginx change from month to month? Shows tables and diagrams of monthly trends of usage for Nginx since September 2010.
    • Version Usage Report
      Which are the most popular versions of Nginx? Shows the distribution of Nginx versions.
    • Cummulative Version Distribution Report
      Which percentage of sites use a newer version of Nginx than some specific version? Shows the cummulative distribution of Nginx versions.
    • Historical Version Trend Report
      How did the distribution of various versions of Nginx change over time? Shows tables and diagrams of monthly trends in the usage of Nginx versions.
    • Trend Analysis Report
      Which market segments contributed most to usage changes? Shows which geographical regions, identified by top level domain and content language, saw popularity gains or declines in the popularity of Nginx in the last 12 months.
    • Page Speed Trends
      How did the average page speed of Nginx sites change over time? Shows the monthly trend of average Time to First Byte (TTFB) and Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) measurements of websites that use Nginx since January 2023.
    • Change Report
      Which percentage of sites switched from another web server to Nginx and vice versa? Shows the percentages of websites that recently changed between Nginx and other web servers. It also shows examples of sites that made a change.
    • Ranking Breakdown Report
      Is the popularity of Nginx higher among high traffic sites? Shows usage of Nginx broken down by popularity ranges of the Alexa ranking, that is among the top 1 million sites, the top 100,000, the top 10,000 and the top 1,000 sites. Also shows the popularity rank of Nginx among all web servers in these ranges and the most popular competing technology.
    • Market Position Report
      Where in the market diagram lies Nginx? Shows the market position of Nginx in terms of popularity and usage by high traffic sites, compared to the most popular web servers.
    • Multiple Web Servers Usage Report
      How frequently are other web servers used together with Nginx, and which ones? Shows statistics on the usage of Nginx together with other web servers (if any). We identify here usage on the same site, not necessarily on the same page.
    • Cross-Technologies Breakdown and Segmentation Reports
      In which markets is Nginx particularly strong and which one is the most popular competing technology in each market? A set of reports evaluating the combined usage of two categories of web technologies. This shows, for example, the usage of Nginx on any top level domain compared to its usage on all websites and the most popular competing technology on each top level domain. Also shows the rank of Nginx among all web servers for each top level domain, compared to its overall rank. Furthermore, this includes the ranking and percentages of all top level domains among all the sites that use Nginx.

      These detailed reports are available not only for top level domains, but also for the usage of Nginx broken down by

      • Content Management Systems
      • Server-side Programming Languages
      • Client-side Programming Languages
      • JavaScript Libraries
      • CSS Frameworks
      • Web Panels
      • Operating Systems
      • Web Hosting Providers
      • Data Center Providers
      • Reverse Proxy Services
      • DNS Server Providers
      • Email Server Providers
      • SSL Certificate Authorities
      • JavaScript Content Delivery Networks
      • Traffic Analysis Tools
      • Advertising Networks
      • Tag Managers
      • Social Widgets
      • Site Elements
      • Structured Data Formats
      • Markup Languages
      • Character Encodings
      • Image File Formats
      • Top Level Domains
      • Server Locations
      • Content Languages
    • Geographical Distribution Report
      How popular is Nginx in each country? Shows a colored world map indicating the usage percentage of Nginx by country.
    • List of the 300 most popular sites using Nginx including their usage of other web servers (if any).
    • List of up to 300 popular sites that started using Nginx in the last month (if there are that many sites in a month), including the web servers they were using before (if any).
    • List of up to 300 popular sites that discontinued using Nginx in the last month (if there are that many sites in a month), including the web servers they are using now (if any).

Please see technologies overview for explanations on the methodologies used in the surveys, and read our disclaimer to learn about possible incompleteness and inaccuracy of our data.

Table of Content

This is a preview of the current report's table of content.

1. About this Survey 3
2. Quick Summary 5
3. Web Servers, Industry Overviews 6
3.1. Usage Overview 6
3.2. Historical Trends 9
3.2.1. Monthly Usage 9
3.2.2. Yearly Usage 12
3.3. Growth Rates 16
3.4. New Site Usage 19
3.5. Top Site Usage 21
3.6. Page Speed 24
4. Nginx, Technology Market Reports 26
4.1. Historical Trends 26
4.2. Trend Analysis 32
4.2.1. Trend Analysis per Top Level Domains 32
4.2.2. Trend Analysis per Content Languages 52
4.3. Versions 55
4.3.1. Distribution 55
4.3.2. Cumulative Distribution 58
4.3.3. Historical Monthly Trends 59
4.3.4. Historical Yearly Trends 61
4.4. Page Speed Trends 64
4.5. Changes 65
4.6. Ranking Breakdown 67
4.7. Market Position 68
4.8. Multiple Web Servers Usage 69
4.9. Breakdown and Segmentation Reports 73
4.9.1. Content Management Systems 73
4.9.2. Server-side Programming Languages 124
4.9.3. Client-side Programming Languages 126
4.9.4. JavaScript Libraries 128
4.9.5. CSS Frameworks 132
4.9.6. Web Panels 134
4.9.7. Operating Systems 136
4.9.8. Web Hosting Providers 138
4.9.9. Data Center Providers 204
4.9.10. Reverse Proxy Services 242
4.9.11. DNS Server Providers 244
4.9.12. Email Server Providers 280
4.9.13. SSL Certificate Authorities 316
4.9.14. JavaScript Content Delivery Networks 320
4.9.15. Traffic Analysis Tools 322
4.9.16. Advertising Networks 330
4.9.17. Tag Managers 336
4.9.18. Social Widgets 338
4.9.19. Site Elements 342
4.9.20. Structured Data Formats 346
4.9.21. Markup Languages 348
4.9.22. Character Encodings 350
4.9.23. Image File Formats 354
4.9.24. Top Level Domains 356
4.9.25. Server Locations 405
4.9.26. Content Languages 418
4.10. Geographical Distribution 427
4.11. Popular Sites using Nginx 428
4.12. Sites using Nginx only recently 434
4.13. Sites that recently stopped using Nginx 440

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