⚡ Web Servers

Web servers are specialized computer programs that process requests from users' browsers to websites on the Internet and deliver web content by serving files such as HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and media assets.

They commonly support HTTP and HTTPS protocols, virtual hosting, URL rewriting, load balancing, reverse proxying, and caching, while also integrating language interpreters and application runtimes.

According to our statistics, web servers are detected on 69.7% of all websites.
96.5% of these sites use only one web server, 3.4% use two, and 0.1% use three or more simultaneously.

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

The following chart shows the leading web servers in 2026, based on market share.

The most popular is Nginx with an impressive share of 41.5%, followed by Apache with 35.2% and LiteSpeed Web Server with 15.2%.

Nginx 41.5%
Apache 35.2%
LiteSpeed Web Server 15.2%
Microsoft IIS 5%
OpenResty 3%
Tomcat 1.2%
Caddy 0.6%
Google Servlet Engine 0.3%
Tengine 0.3%
Google Host Server 0.2%
Kestrel 0.2%
Phusion Passenger 0.2%
Google Front End 0.2%
Pepyaka 0.2%
Gunicorn 0.07%

You can also drill down by country:

🚀 Country Highlights

Here is a list of servers that are especially popular in certain countries.
Differences between global and country rankings are shown in parentheses.

Apache is #1 in the United States ^(-1)
LiteSpeed Web Server is #1 in Australia ^(-2)
Microsoft IIS is #2 in China ^(-2)
OpenResty is #3 in Korea ^(-2)
Caddy is #4 in Romania ^(-3)
Google Servlet Engine is #4 in Indonesia ^(-4)
Google Front End is #6 in Japan ^(-7)
Lighttpd is #6 in Russia ^(-10)
Gunicorn is #7 in Switzerland ^(-8)
Kestrel is #8 in the United Kingdom ^(-3)

✨ Best Web Servers

Below is a more detailed list of the top 25 of the 41 web servers we detect, ranked by their market share.

Rank	Name	Market share
1	Nginx Seattle, Washington, United States A lightweight, high-performance open-source HTTP server and reverse proxy. FreeOpen source$3,500+/year	41.5%
2	Apache Wilmington, Delaware, United States A cross-platform open-source web server that has been available since 1995. FreeOpen source	35.2%
3	LiteSpeed Web Server Newtown Square, Pennsylvania, United States A high-performance commercial web server that can operate as a drop-in replacement for Apache, using the same configuration files and control panel integrations. FreeOpen source$10+/month	15.2%
4	Microsoft IIS Redmond, Washington, United States An extensible web server developed by Microsoft for Windows systems. Free$$$	5%
5	OpenResty Millbrae, California, United States An Nginx distribution that bundles the LuaJIT interpreter to run Lua scripts directly inside the web server. FreeOpen source	3%
6	Tomcat Wilmington, Delaware, United States An open-source Java application server that implements Java Servlet and Jakarta Server Pages specifications. FreeOpen source	1.2%
7	Caddy Vienna, Austria An open-source multi-platform web server written in Go with built-in support for automatic HTTPS and modern web protocols. FreeOpen source	0.6%
8	Google Servlet Engine Mountain View, California, United States A fast, lightweight engine for running Java servlets, developed and used by Google.	0.3%
9	Tengine Hangzhou, China An open-source web server based on Nginx and developed by the Chinese e-commerce company Alibaba. FreeOpen source	0.3%
10	Google Host Server Mountain View, California, United States A proprietary web server software used by Google for its web infrastructure.	0.2%
11	Kestrel Redmond, Washington, United States An open-source, cross-platform web server for ASP.NET Core that can serve HTTP requests on Windows, Linux, and macOS. FreeOpen source	0.2%
12	Phusion Passenger Apeldoorn, Netherlands A fast and robust web server and application server for Ruby, Python and Node.js. FreeOpen source$43.32+/month	0.2%
13	Google Front End Mountain View, California, United States A reverse-proxy frontend service provided by Google Cloud.	0.2%
14	Pepyaka Tel Aviv, Israel A web server supposedly based on Nginx and used by the Wix website building platform.	0.2%
15	Gunicorn Creil, France A Python WSGI HTTP server for UNIX, a pre-fork worker model ported from Ruby's Unicorn project. FreeOpen source	0.07%
16	Lighttpd Germany An open-source web server optimized for high performance environments and low resource usage. FreeOpen source	0.05%
17	Angie Moscow, Russia An efficient web server that was forked from Nginx by its former developers. FreeOpen source$$$	0.04%
18	Cowboy France A small, fast, and modern HTTP server for Erlang that supports WebSocket, HTTP/2, and REST. FreeOpen source	0.04%
19	Oracle iPlanet Web Server Austin, Texas, United States A web server designed for medium and large business applications. Free	0.03%
20	Zope Fishers, Indiana, United States An open-source web application server and web framework written in Python. FreeOpen source	0.02%
21	Google Web Server Mountain View, California, United States A proprietary web server software used by Google for its web infrastructure.	0.02%
22	Resin San Diego, California, United States A Java EE-certified application server. Free$849+/year	0.02%
23	Static File Front End Mountain View, California, United States A proprietary web server software used by Google for its web infrastructure.	0.01%
24	WebSphere Application Server Armonk, New York, United States A flexible, secure Java server runtime environment designed to accelerate the delivery of enterprise applications. Free$759+/month	0.01%
25	Domino Web Server Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India Comes with Domino and allows organizations to serve pages stored in the file system or in a Domino database.	0.01%

👉 See Also

Data is based on the analysis of 3,325,341 websites.
Statistics were last calculated on March 31, 2026.
For details, see our methodology and disclaimer.