We compiled the list of web technologies that saw the largest increase in usage in 2024.

We compiled the list of web technologies that saw the largest increase in usage in 2023.

We compiled the list of web technologies that saw the largest increase in usage in 2021.

Red Hat is the Linux distribution with the highest percentage of high traffic sites in its user base.

After growing by 17.6% in the last year, Ubuntu is now running on one out of eight websites.

One third of all Linux web servers are running on Ubuntu.

Hetzner is the most popular web hosting provider among Linux-based web servers, just ahead of Amazon.

Ubuntu has a Linux distribution market share of 32.1% on web servers, just ahead of Debian, which was market leader since 2011.

We compiled the list of web technologies that saw the largest increase in usage in the last year.

Ubuntu now runs on 10% of all web servers.

We compiled the list of web technologies that saw the largest increase in usage in the last year.

Red Hat is losing more websites to Debian and Ubuntu than to CentOS.

Ubuntu is now used on 9% of all web servers, up from 7.7% one year ago.

Gentoo moves up to become the fifth most popular Linux distribution on web servers, passing Fedora.

Debian has been the most popular Linux distribution on web servers for almost two years when it took over rank #1 from CentOS. Now CentOS lost another rank to Ubuntu, giving Debian-based distributions a solid lead over the Red Hat camp.

25% of all Linux-based web servers run Ubuntu, up from 20% one year ago.

Gentoo has become more popular than SuSE on web servers. It had less than half of SuSE's market share one year ago.

The share of Red Hat among Linux distributions on web servers has dropped to 10%.

Ubuntu is now used on 7% of all web servers, up from 5.5% one year ago.

After a long period of decline, usage of Gentoo for web servers is rising again.

30.1% of all Linux-based websites run one of the established content management systems, but only 9.8% of Windows-based sites.

Most popular Linux distributions running on the servers of the top 1.000 websites:

1. Ubuntu, 2. Debian, 3. CentOS, 4. Red Hat

Changes in the usage of Linux distributions on web servers in the last year:
Debian-based (Debian, Ubuntu): +7.4%
Red Hat-based (Red Hat, CentOS, Fedora, Scientific Linux): -6.0%

Scientific Linux is still a niche system on web servers, but it more than quadrupled in the last year.

Ubuntu is now used on 6% of all web servers, up from 4% one year ago.

Debian has surpassed CentOS to become the most popular Linux distribution on web servers.

73.6% of German websites run on Linux, but only 6.9% of Chinese ones: Usage of Linux by top level domains.

Ubuntu now ahead of Red Hat in Linux usage for web servers. Still behind CentOS and Debian: Usage of Linux distribution

Ubuntu has been a popular Linux distribution on desktop systems for some time. Now it is also increasing its market share on web servers. We have a closer look at the statistics.

CentOS is a well known Linux distribution with a strong focus on server machines rather than on desktop PCs. For the first time, CentOS is now leading the Linux distribution statistics on web servers with almost 30% of all Linux servers.