February 26, 2026
18 min read
We recomputed web-server market share and per-server quality across 3.17 million sites with a detected Server header in LLMSE's 3.4M-URL index. Apache leads at 29.2%, nginx follows at 26.3%, and Cloudflare is third at 19.6% — the big three still hold ~75%. But quality tracks the platform, not the protocol: modern deploy platforms (Vercel, Netlify) pass SEO ~5x more often than the legacy stack, website builders win accessibility, LiteSpeed is the WordPress server, and Cloudflare carries 7x the gambling traffic of Apache or nginx. Your server predicts your quality because it proxies who built the site.
February 25, 2026
15 min read
We recomputed the Herfindahl-Hirschman Index across three infrastructure layers — web servers, DNS, and email — from 3.17M server headers, 1.66M nameserver records, and 1.05M mail records in LLMSE's index. Only the web-server layer (HHI 2,013) clears the antitrust 'concentrated' line, and that is a software artifact: Apache and nginx are open source. DNS has fallen to a competitive HHI of 947 and email is only moderately concentrated at 1,549. No single provider crosses the DOJ 30% structural-presumption threshold in any layer.
February 25, 2026
16 min read
We mapped the real technology stack across 3.4 million classified sites. Among 3.17M server-tagged sites Apache leads at 29.2%, nginx is second at 26.3%, and Cloudflare — once billed as the new #1 — sits third at 19.6%. WordPress still takes roughly 87% of the self-hosted CMS market, and Astro has overtaken standalone React by deployment count. The server race is a three-way split, not a Cloudflare takeover.
February 24, 2026
16 min read
We mapped the MX records of 1,051,461 domains with an identified mail provider across LLMSE's index. Google Workspace (28.4%) and Microsoft 365 (26.0%) still form a duopoly, but it has loosened to 54.4% as the crawl broadened. IONOS is now the third-largest provider, bundled hosting email has grown to a quarter of all domains, and ProtonMail has overtaken Fastmail as the privacy leader.
February 24, 2026
15 min read
We mapped the DNS provider for 1.66 million domains by their delegated nameservers. Cloudflare leads at 28.3% — still 3.2x the next provider (GoDaddy, 8.9%), but well below the 40% we reported in early 2026. As LLMSE's index more than doubled, DNS de-concentrated across every tier: the top two providers now hold 37% (was 51%), the top ten 58% (was 73%). DNS remains markedly more fragmented than business email, and the long tail is overwhelmingly European and Asia-Pacific hosting and registrar brands.