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January 2012 Web Server Survey

Time: 06:54 EST/11:54 GMT | News Source: ActiveWin.com | Posted By: Robert Stein

In the January 2012 survey we received responses from 582,716,657 sites, a growth of 4.9% or 27.2M sites on last month. All major web server vendors have continued to gain hostnames this month with Apache, once again, achieving the largest increase of just under 16M hostnames. Despite this, Apache's market share fell by 0.3%, negating the increase experienced last month. Although Microsoft gained 1.8M sites it recorded a further drop in market share, extending a trend that dates back as far as June 2010. Conversely, nginx was the only major web server vendor to gain market share this month and set a new all-time high of 9.63%. Furthermore, it saw the second largest absolute growth with an addition of 6.9M hostnames.