🆚 Apache vs. Lighttpd
- 📈 Apache is much more popular than Lighttpd.
- 🌍 Apache is more popular in all countries.
- ⭐ Lighttpd is particularly popular in Russia.
Statistics based on 3.3M+ analyzed websites. About this data
Apache
LighttpdType
Web server
Web server
About
Apache is a cross-platform open-source web server that has been available since 1995.
It offers a modular architecture with many modules available, supports various scripting languages such as 
PHP, Perl, and Python via CGI/FCGI and custom modules, allows per-directory configuration using .htaccess files, and handles virtual hosting on one instance.
Lighttpd (pronounced /lighty/) is an open-source web server optimized for high performance environments and low resource usage.
Headquarters
Wilmington, Delaware, United States
Germany
Pricing
Free ✔️Open source
Free ✔️Open source
Categories
Web Servers › Rank #2
Web Servers › Rank #16
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
The Apache web server is 647 times more popular than Lighttpd.
Total websites
Market share
Web Servers
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
Apache is more popular than Lighttpd in all countries.
United States
Germany
Japan
France
United Kingdom
Netherlands
Italy
Spain
Brazil
India
Awards
- 🥇 Most popular in the United States in the Web Servers category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Germany in the Web Servers category.
- 🥇 Most popular in France in the Web Servers category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Brazil in the Web Servers category.
- 🥇 Most popular in India in the Web Servers category.
- ⭐ 6th most popular in Russia in the Web Servers category.
- ⭐ 6th most popular in Argentina in the Web Servers category.
- ⭐ 10th most popular in Germany in the Web Servers category.
- 🔥 11st most popular in the Czech Republic in the Web Servers category.
- 🔥 12nd most popular in the Netherlands in the Web Servers category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
Apache is more popular than Lighttpd in all market segments.
Business
Marketing/Merchandising
Education/Reference
Online Shopping
Internet Services
Blogs/Wiki
Entertainment
Travel
Health
Software/Hardware
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
Compare alternatives
Technologies with similar characteristics.
Nginx
OpenResty
Tomcat
Caddy
Tengine
Apache Software Foundation company profile🗃️ About This Data
- We evaluate the popularity of technologies based on the number of websites where we detect their usage.
- Technologies without a detectable web footprint, and those we do not track, are not reflected in the calculated market share.
- This report is based on the analysis of 3,367,747 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.