The popular ones

Why these ones, and who chose them

An editorial shortcut and not a ranking: a list of names written by hand, so that a reader who came looking for one of them finds it without reading the whole table. Being absent from it means nothing about a technology — the full list below has every one the census can publish in this category, these included.

The names most people arrive with.

TechnologyAWCSMonth by month
Nginx
Nginx scores 16.7%16.7%
Nginx: 5 months, up▲ +1.3

Every one of them, best first

How to read these figures

The colour says what a bar IS, not how it scores: the accent is the one this page is about, grey is everything it is compared with, and the hollow bar is the web overall — the ruler, not a rival. Whether a figure is above or below the rest of the web is in the number and in the arrow beside it.

Every figure here comes from a sample, not from counting every site — so it carries a margin: how much it could move if we had happened to sample different pages. A figure measured on a thousand pages has a wide margin; one measured on a hundred thousand has a narrow one. It matters for one thing: two figures that differ by less than the wider of their margins are not one above the other, they are tied. That is why nothing here has a position number.

Every technology in this category the census can publish a figure for, including the ones above. A technology is here when it has all four dimensions and enough sample to publish; a technology that belongs to two categories is in both.

TechnologyAWCSMonth by month
Envoy

Envoy

Sample
n=1,522
Coverage
90.0%
Margin
±1.36
The web overall
21.0%

Two figures closer together than ±1.36 are tied, not ranked.

Envoy scores 17.2%17.2%
Envoy: 5 months, no significant change= +1.2
Nginx

Nginx

Sample
n=38,197
Coverage
96.5%
Margin
±0.27
The web overall
21.0%

Two figures closer together than ±0.27 are tied, not ranked.

Nginx scores 16.7%16.7%
Nginx: 5 months, up▲ +1.3