I love statistics. They can be used to say just about whatever one desires. The goal of the post seems to be to show relevance and traction gains in the market

I love statistics. They can be used to say just about whatever one desires. The goal of the post seems to be to show relevance and traction gains in the market. The charts from netcraft that discuss all domains are pointless for that, because domains are a dime a dozen. What we should pay attention to are the numbers across the busiest sites. First, is a million sites a good measure? Netcraft has identified just over 180 million websites, so the million busiest sites seems a pretty good assessment. To be useful, we need to see how nginx fares in the market of websites where these decisions count. So, the busiest million sites is a good measure for that. Of the four servers identified (Google App Engine is a toy, shouldn't be on this list), nginx is the only one that actually made quantifiable gains in the two months compared. Both Apache and Microsoft/IIS took steps back. In this consideration, nginx sits at 8% share, which is essentially "statistically relevant". But even then, it's only one month of data. A longer term view is more relevant. Back in April (http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2011/04/06/april-2011-web-server-survey.html http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2011/04/06/april-2011-web-...), nginx was measured in the same context at 6.5% of these same sites; half a year later, nginx sits at 8%. Here's the summary: nginx is making relevant market share gains in the web server space, and is taking share from both Microsoft/IIS and Apache.