🆚 Caddy vs. Tomcat
- 📈 Tomcat is three times more popular than Caddy.
- 🌎 Tomcat is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia.
- 🌍 Caddy is more popular in Germany, the Netherlands, and Sweden.
Caddy
TomcatType
About
Caddy is an open-source multi-platform web server written in 
Go with built-in support for automatic HTTPS and modern web protocols.
It supports automatic TLS management with providers such as Let's Encrypt and ZeroSSL, includes a built-in reverse proxy with load balancing, offers configuration through the human-readable Caddyfile or a 
JSON-based REST API, and features a modular architecture that can be extended with plugins.
Apache Tomcat is an open-source 
Java application server that implements the 
Jakarta Servlet, 
Jakarta Server Pages, Jakarta Expression Language, and Jakarta 
WebSocket specifications.
It provides a servlet container and JSP engine for running Java web applications, supports 
HTTP/2 and virtual threads, implements a curated subset of Jakarta EE for lightweight deployment, and offers TLS certificate reload without downtime.
Headquarters
tomcat.apache.orgPricing
Categories
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
Market share
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
Awards
- ⭐ 4th most popular in Germany in the Web Servers category.
- ⭐ 5th most popular in Austria in the Web Servers category.
- ⭐ 5th most popular in Romania in the Web Servers category.
- ⭐ 5th most popular in Belgium in the Web Servers category.
- ⭐ 5th most popular in Bulgaria in the Web Servers category.
- ⭐ 4th most popular in the United States in the Web Servers category.
- ⭐ 4th most popular in New Zealand in the Web Servers category.
- ⭐ 5th most popular in the United Kingdom in the Web Servers category.
- ⭐ 5th most popular in Australia in the Web Servers category.
- ⭐ 5th most popular in Canada in the Web Servers category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
Compare alternatives
Technologies with similar characteristics.
🗃️ 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 3,814,833 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.