Original Research
State of the Web 2026
Based on analysis of 1,571,287 ranked websites and 1,263,644 domain profiles.
Published April 2026 · Updated monthly · By Statvoo Research
This report presents original data on the current state of the web, drawn from Statvoo's analysis of over 1,571,287 ranked websites. All data is derived from live HTTP responses, DNS records, and server headers collected by our crawling infrastructure. This research is updated monthly and freely available for citation.
Web Technology Market Share
Technologies detected across the top-ranked websites, based on HTTP response headers and server signatures.
| Technology | Sites Detected | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Amazon AWS | 985 | |
| Cloudflare | 787 | |
| Nginx | 687 | |
| Varnish | 312 | |
| Apache | 287 | |
| WordPress | 266 | |
| PHP | 177 | |
| Shopify | 20 | |
| Microsoft IIS | 18 | |
| LiteSpeed | 15 |
Hosting Provider Market Share
Infrastructure providers identified from IP geolocation and server headers across ranked websites.
| Provider | Sites | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Amazon (AWS) | 811 | |
| Cloudflare | 593 | |
| Google Cloud | 182 | |
| Microsoft Azure | 60 | |
| DigitalOcean | 4 |
Top-Level Domain Distribution
Distribution of TLDs among the top 1,571,287 ranked websites.
| TLD | Domains | Share |
|---|---|---|
| .com | 668,972 | |
| .net | 69,951 | |
| .org | 54,078 | |
| .ru | 50,691 | |
| .br | 42,690 | |
| .de | 40,819 | |
| .jp | 36,303 | |
| .uk | 35,982 | |
| .in | 30,720 | |
| .fr | 20,743 | |
| .it | 20,202 | |
| .pl | 17,451 | |
| .io | 14,759 | |
| .nl | 14,182 | |
| .co | 13,333 |
Most Common Search Keywords
The most frequently targeted search keywords across ranked websites.
Higher Education Data
Statistics from 6,528 US universities and colleges tracked by Statvoo.
Key Findings
- Amazon AWS is the most widely detected web technology, found on 985 of 2,581 analyzed sites.
- Amazon (AWS) leads hosting infrastructure with 811 sites.
- .com dominates the TLD landscape with 668,972 of 1,571,287 ranked domains (43%).
- Statvoo tracks 1,263,644 domain profiles and 1,571,287 ranked websites.
- Data is updated daily via automated crawling infrastructure operating since 2013.
Methodology
Data is collected from live HTTP requests to ranked websites. Technology detection is based on server response headers, including the Server, X-Powered-By, and Via headers, as well as CDN-specific headers like CF-Ray (Cloudflare) and X-Amz-Cf-Id (CloudFront). TLD distribution is calculated from the global ranking dataset. All percentages are relative to the detected population, not the total ranked set, since not all sites expose server information in their headers.
If you use data from this report, please cite:
Statvoo Research. "State of the Web 2026." Statvoo, April 2026. https://statvoo.com/research/state-of-the-web-2026
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