Web Hosting Statistics 2026: Market Share, Web Servers and CDNs
Shopify hosted 5.3% of all websites in October 2026, according to W3Techs. Hostinger was close behind with 5.2%, then Amazon with 4.4% and Wix with 4.2%. No host has a big share of the whole web. Among the most visited sites, Amazon leads by far, hosting 23.5% of the top 1,000.
Key statistics
- Shopify hosted 5.3% of all websites in October 2026, the largest share of any web hosting provider, according to W3Techs.
- Hostinger hosted 5.2% of all websites in October 2026, according to W3Techs.
- Amazon hosted 23.5% of the top 1,000 websites in October 2026, according to W3Techs.
- Cloudflare had 18.10% web server market share across all websites in September 2026, the largest of any vendor, according to Netcraft.
- Cloudflare was used by 28.0% of all websites and had 86.0% of the reverse proxy market in October 2026, according to W3Techs.
Web hosting market share by provider
W3Techs maps each website in its survey to the company that hosts it. Brands owned by the same group are counted together.
The hosting market is very spread out. The four largest providers together host 19.1% of all websites. W3Techs tracks 1,419 providers in its market reports.
Three of the five largest "hosts" are really site builders or shops. Shopify, Wix and Squarespace host the sites their customers build on their platforms. Hostinger is the largest traditional hosting company in the data. It overtook Amazon for second place in February 2026.
Shopify and Wix show up the same way in CMS data. See our WordPress statistics for how site builders compare with WordPress.
Source: W3Techs, October 2026.
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Shopify hosted 5.3% of all websites in October 2026, the largest share of any web hosting provider, according to W3Techs.
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Hostinger hosted 5.2% of all websites in October 2026, according to W3Techs.
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Amazon hosted 4.4% of all websites in October 2026, according to W3Techs.
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Wix hosted 4.2% of all websites in October 2026, according to W3Techs.
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Squarespace hosted 2.4% of all websites in October 2026, according to W3Techs.
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Shopify, Hostinger, Amazon and Wix together hosted 19.1% of all websites in October 2026, calculated by StatisticsGlobal from W3Techs data.
How we calculated it: 5.3% (Shopify) + 5.2% (Hostinger) + 4.4% (Amazon) + 4.2% (Wix) = 19.1%. Each site has one hosting provider in W3Techs data.
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Hostinger overtook Amazon to become the 2nd largest web hosting provider by websites hosted in February 2026, according to W3Techs.
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W3Techs tracked 1,419 web hosting providers in its market reports in October 2026, according to W3Techs.
| Provider | Type | Share of all websites |
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| Shopify | E-commerce platform | 5.3% |
| Hostinger | Shared and cloud hosting | 5.2% |
| Amazon | Cloud infrastructure | 4.4% |
| Wix | Website builder | 4.2% |
| Squarespace | Website builder | 2.4% |
Largest web hosting companies by websites hosted
The ranking changes a lot when you look only at popular websites. W3Techs splits its data by traffic rank, from the top 1,000 sites to the top 1 million.
Amazon is the host of the busiest sites. Its share rises at every step up the ranking, from 4.4% of all sites to 23.5% of the top 1,000. That is 5.3 times its share of the whole web.
Hostinger shows the opposite pattern. It hosts 5.2% of all sites but almost none of the top 1,000. Wix is similar. Its share of all sites is 14 times its share of the top 1 million. Budget hosts and site builders serve many small sites, while large sites run on cloud infrastructure.
For revenue and market share among cloud providers, see our cloud market share page.
Source: W3Techs, 25 October 2026.
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Amazon hosted 23.5% of the top 1,000 websites in October 2026, according to W3Techs.
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Amazon hosted 11.3% of the top 1 million websites in October 2026, according to W3Techs.
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Shopify hosted 8.3% of the top 1 million websites in October 2026, according to W3Techs.
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Hostinger hosted 2.8% of the top 1 million websites and 0.0% of the top 1,000 in October 2026, according to W3Techs.
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Wix hosted 0.3% of the top 1 million websites in October 2026, according to W3Techs.
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Amazon's share of the top 1,000 websites was 5.3 times its share of all websites in October 2026, calculated by StatisticsGlobal from W3Techs data.
How we calculated it: 23.5% (share of top 1,000 sites) / 4.4% (share of all sites) = 5.34.
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Wix's share of all websites was 14 times its share of the top 1 million websites in October 2026, calculated by StatisticsGlobal from W3Techs data.
How we calculated it: 4.2% (share of all sites) / 0.3% (share of top 1 million sites) = 14.0.
| Provider | All websites | Top 1 million | Top 100,000 | Top 10,000 | Top 1,000 |
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| Amazon | 4.4% | 11.3% | 17.4% | 21.8% | 23.5% |
| Shopify | 5.3% | 8.3% | 3.7% | 1.5% | 2.0% |
| Hostinger | 5.2% | 2.8% | 1.3% | 0.4% | 0.0% |
Web server market share
Netcraft and W3Techs both measure web server software, but they count differently. Netcraft counts every site its survey finds, active or not. W3Techs counts only sites in its sample whose server it can identify.
Cloudflare is now the most common web server in both surveys. In Netcraft's count it moved past nginx during 2026. W3Techs says Cloudflare Server overtook Nginx in its data on 22 September 2026.
nginx lost the most ground. Its share of all sites in Netcraft's survey fell from 24.93% to 15.33% in a year. OpenResty, which is built on nginx, gained 2.87 points over the same year. nginx is still the most common server on web-facing computers, at 44.00%.
The two sources disagree on size. W3Techs puts Cloudflare Server on 32.9% of sites, 14.8 points above Netcraft's 18.10%. Netcraft counts every site its survey finds, including many inactive ones. W3Techs looks only at sites in popularity lists and reports the share of sites with a known server.
- nginx
- Cloudflare
- Apache
Source: Netcraft Web Server Surveys for September 2025, January 2026, July 2026 and September 2026.
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Netcraft found 1,470,435,351 websites in its September 2026 web server survey, according to Netcraft.
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Netcraft counted 323,147,961 domains and 15,463,120 web-facing computers in September 2026, according to Netcraft.
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The number of websites in Netcraft's survey grew 9.9% between September 2025 and September 2026, calculated by StatisticsGlobal from Netcraft data.
How we calculated it: 1,470,435,351 sites (September 2026) / 1,337,528,194 sites (September 2025) - 1 = 9.94%.
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Cloudflare had 18.10% web server market share across all websites in September 2026, the largest of any vendor, according to Netcraft.
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nginx had 15.33% web server market share across all websites in September 2026, according to Netcraft.
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Apache had 11.56% web server market share across all websites in September 2026, according to Netcraft.
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OpenResty had 9.02% web server market share across all websites in September 2026, according to Netcraft.
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nginx's share of all websites fell 9.60 percentage points between September 2025 and September 2026, calculated by StatisticsGlobal from Netcraft data.
How we calculated it: 15.33% (September 2026) - 24.93% (September 2025) = -9.60 points.
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Cloudflare's share of all websites rose 3.19 percentage points between September 2025 and September 2026, calculated by StatisticsGlobal from Netcraft data.
How we calculated it: 18.10% (September 2026) - 14.91% (September 2025) = +3.19 points.
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OpenResty's share of all websites rose 2.87 percentage points between September 2025 and September 2026, calculated by StatisticsGlobal from Netcraft data.
How we calculated it: 9.02% (September 2026) - 6.15% (September 2025) = +2.87 points.
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Apache's share of all websites fell 1.57 percentage points between September 2025 and September 2026, calculated by StatisticsGlobal from Netcraft data.
How we calculated it: 11.56% (September 2026) - 13.13% (September 2025) = -1.57 points.
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nginx ran on 44.00% of web-facing computers in September 2026, up from 41.69% in September 2025, according to Netcraft.
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Cloudflare Server ran 32.9% of websites whose web server W3Techs could identify in October 2026, according to W3Techs.
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Nginx ran 30.1% of websites whose web server W3Techs could identify in October 2026, according to W3Techs.
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Apache ran 21.2% of websites whose web server W3Techs could identify in October 2026, according to W3Techs.
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LiteSpeed ran 13.8% of websites whose web server W3Techs could identify in October 2026, according to W3Techs.
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Cloudflare's web server share was 14.8 points higher in W3Techs data than in Netcraft data in autumn 2026, calculated by StatisticsGlobal from W3Techs and Netcraft data.
How we calculated it: 32.9% (W3Techs, sites with a known server, 27 October 2026) - 18.10% (Netcraft, all sites, September 2026) = 14.8 points.
| Web server | September 2025 | September 2026 | Change (points) |
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| Cloudflare | 14.91% | 18.10% | +3.19 |
| nginx | 24.93% | 15.33% | -9.60 |
| Apache | 13.13% | 11.56% | -1.57 |
| OpenResty | 6.15% | 9.02% | +2.87 |
Which web servers each host runs
Hosting providers tend to standardise on one server stack. W3Techs shows the mix for each large host.
Site builders run almost everything behind Cloudflare. Cloudflare Server handles 99.8% of Shopify sites and 98.7% of Wix sites.
Some large European hosts still lean on Apache. It runs 75.6% of United Internet sites and 61.7% of OVH sites. SiteGround is almost all Nginx.
Hostinger stands out. Only 20.9% of its sites run any of the three biggest servers. W3Techs does not list the rest in this table, but LiteSpeed is the next most common server overall, at 13.8%.
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Cloudflare Server ran 99.8% of Shopify-hosted websites with a known web server in October 2026, according to W3Techs.
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Apache ran 75.6% of websites hosted by United Internet with a known web server in October 2026, according to W3Techs.
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Nginx ran 91.4% of websites hosted by SiteGround with a known web server in October 2026, according to W3Techs.
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Only 20.9% of Hostinger-hosted websites with a known web server ran Cloudflare Server, Nginx or Apache in October 2026, calculated by StatisticsGlobal from W3Techs data.
How we calculated it: 12.4% (Cloudflare Server) + 6.9% (Nginx) + 1.6% (Apache) = 20.9%. A site can use more than one server, so this is an upper bound.
| Hosting provider | Cloudflare Server | Nginx | Apache |
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| All websites | 32.9% | 30.1% | 21.2% |
| Shopify | 99.8% | 1.1% | 0.6% |
| Wix | 98.7% | 0.6% | 0.4% |
| United Internet | 2.2% | 17.2% | 75.6% |
| GoDaddy Group | 29.4% | 12.0% | 56.1% |
| OVH | 1.7% | 28.2% | 61.7% |
| SiteGround | 9.5% | 91.4% | 0.3% |
| Hostinger | 12.4% | 6.9% | 1.6% |
CDN usage statistics
The HTTP Archive Web Almanac measures how often pages and files are delivered through a content delivery network (CDN). The 2025 edition was published in January 2026.
Most of the web's main pages still come straight from the origin server. CDNs served 35% of mobile HTML requests in 2025, up 2 points on 2024. Popular sites use CDNs far more. The top 1,000 sites are 2.0 times as likely to use one as the top 10 million.
CDNs move to new protocols faster than origin servers. 29% of CDN-served HTML used HTTP/3, while origin servers served almost none. HTTP/1.1 nearly disappeared from CDN-served HTML, falling from 16% to 2% in a year.
Speed is a big part of the case. Median TLS negotiation on desktop took 57 ms from a CDN and 177 ms from an origin server, 3.1 times faster.
Source: HTTP Archive, Web Almanac 2025.
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CDNs served 35% of mobile HTML requests in 2025, up from 33% in 2024, according to HTTP Archive.
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71% of the top 1,000 websites used a CDN on mobile in 2025, according to HTTP Archive.
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49% of the top 1 million websites and 35% of the top 10 million used a CDN on mobile in 2025, according to HTTP Archive.
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The top 1,000 websites were 2.0 times as likely to use a CDN as the top 10 million in 2025, calculated by StatisticsGlobal from HTTP Archive data.
How we calculated it: 71% (top 1,000 sites) / 35% (top 10 million sites) = 2.03, mobile CDN adoption by CrUX rank.
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CDNs served 71% of third-party mobile requests in 2025, down from 75% in 2024, according to HTTP Archive.
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29% of HTML served by CDNs on mobile used HTTP/3 in 2025, compared with 0% of HTML served from origin servers, according to HTTP Archive.
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HTTP/1.1 carried 2% of CDN-served HTML on mobile in 2025, down from 16% in 2024, according to HTTP Archive.
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Zstandard was used for 12% of compressed CDN responses on mobile in 2025, up from 3% in 2024, according to HTTP Archive.
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Median TLS negotiation on desktop was 3.1 times faster from CDNs than from origin servers in 2025, calculated by StatisticsGlobal from HTTP Archive data.
How we calculated it: 177 ms (origin median) / 57 ms (CDN median) = 3.11, desktop.
| Site popularity (CrUX rank) | Share using a CDN |
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| Top 1,000 | 71% |
| Top 10,000 | 70% |
| Top 100,000 | 62% |
| Top 1 million | 49% |
| Top 10 million | 35% |
Cloudflare market share
Cloudflare is not a hosting company in W3Techs data. It is counted as a reverse proxy, which sits in front of the host. Netcraft counts it as a web server, because Cloudflare's servers answer the request.
Cloudflare dominates the layer in front of websites. It is used by 28.0% of all sites and has 86.0% of the reverse proxy market in W3Techs data, 16.2 times Amazon CloudFront's share. HTTP Archive finds the same lead for page delivery. Cloudflare served 58% of CDN-served mobile HTML in 2025.
Its lead is larger among busy sites. In Netcraft's September 2026 survey, Cloudflare had 29.10% of the top million sites, 1.6 times its share of all sites, and up 5.69 points in a year.
Hosts and proxies are linked. Shopify alone hosts 19.1% of the sites that use Cloudflare, and Amazon hosts 71.8% of the sites that use its own CloudFront.
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Cloudflare was used by 28.0% of all websites and had 86.0% of the reverse proxy market in October 2026, according to W3Techs.
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67.4% of websites used none of the reverse proxy services W3Techs monitors in October 2026, according to W3Techs.
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Amazon CloudFront was used by 1.7% of all websites and had 5.3% of the reverse proxy market in October 2026, according to W3Techs.
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Cloudflare's reverse proxy market share was 16.2 times Amazon CloudFront's in October 2026, calculated by StatisticsGlobal from W3Techs data.
How we calculated it: 86.0% (Cloudflare) / 5.3% (Amazon CloudFront) = 16.23.
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Cloudflare delivered 58% of CDN-served mobile HTML requests in 2025, followed by Google with 21%, according to HTTP Archive.
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Cloudflare had 29.10% web server market share among the top million busiest websites in September 2026, according to Netcraft.
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Cloudflare had 25.57% web server market share among active websites in September 2026, according to Netcraft.
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Cloudflare's share of the top million websites was 1.6 times its share of all websites in September 2026, calculated by StatisticsGlobal from Netcraft data.
How we calculated it: 29.10% (top million) / 18.10% (all sites) = 1.61.
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Cloudflare's share of the top million websites rose 5.69 percentage points between September 2025 and September 2026, calculated by StatisticsGlobal from Netcraft data.
How we calculated it: 29.10% (September 2026) - 23.41% (September 2025) = +5.69 points.
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Shopify hosted 19.1% of websites that use Cloudflare as a reverse proxy in October 2026, according to W3Techs.
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Amazon hosted 71.8% of websites that use Amazon CloudFront in October 2026, according to W3Techs.
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Cloudflare was the reverse proxy for 92.9% of Vercel-hosted websites with a known reverse proxy in October 2026, according to W3Techs.
| Service | Share of all websites | Reverse proxy market share |
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| Cloudflare | 28.0% | 86.0% |
| Amazon CloudFront | 1.7% | 5.3% |
| Fastly | 0.9% | 2.9% |
| DDoS-Guard | 0.7% | 2.2% |
| Akamai | 0.6% | 1.9% |
| None of the monitored services | 67.4% | n/a |
How W3Techs, Netcraft and HTTP Archive measure web hosting
W3Techs surveys a sample of websites drawn from popularity lists. It says the sample has well over 20 million sites and uses Chrome UX Report and Tranco rankings. It identifies hosts partly with data from ipinfo.io and groups brands owned by one company. Subdomains are not counted as separate sites. Figures change daily.
Netcraft surveys the whole internet each month and counts every hostname that answers. That includes many inactive sites, which is why it finds about 1.47 billion. Its "active sites" and "top million" views narrow this down. Monthly shares can swing hard. Google lost 19.1 million sites in Netcraft's September 2026 survey alone.
HTTP Archive crawls millions of home pages on desktop and mobile and records every request. Its CDN figures are shares of requests or of sites, by type. The Web Almanac is published once a year, so its data is older than the other two sources.
None of the three sources publishes hosting revenue. Treat every number here as a share of websites, not a share of money spent. Snapshots of the W3Techs and Netcraft figures we used are in the CSV downloads linked from each statistic.
Frequently asked questions
What is the largest web hosting provider?
Shopify hosted 5.3% of all websites in October 2026, the largest share of any web hosting provider, according to W3Techs. Hostinger was second with 5.2%.
Which host do the most popular websites use?
Amazon hosted 23.5% of the top 1,000 websites in October 2026, according to W3Techs. Its share of all websites was 4.4%.
What is the most used web server in 2026?
Cloudflare had 18.10% web server market share across all websites in September 2026, the largest of any vendor, according to Netcraft. W3Techs also ranks Cloudflare Server first, at 32.9% of sites with a known server.
Is nginx losing market share?
Yes in Netcraft's count. nginx's share of all websites fell 9.60 percentage points between September 2025 and September 2026, calculated by StatisticsGlobal from Netcraft data. It still runs 44.00% of web-facing computers.
How many websites are there?
Netcraft found 1,470,435,351 websites in its September 2026 web server survey. That was 9.9% more than in September 2025, calculated by StatisticsGlobal from Netcraft data.
What share of websites use Cloudflare?
Cloudflare was used by 28.0% of all websites and had 86.0% of the reverse proxy market in October 2026, according to W3Techs.
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Changes to this page
- : Page published with W3Techs data for October 2026, Netcraft data to September 2026 and HTTP Archive data for 2025.