🆚 Lighttpd vs. LiteSpeed Web Server

📈 LiteSpeed Web Server is much more popular than Lighttpd.
🌍 LiteSpeed Web Server is more popular in all countries.
⭐ Lighttpd is particularly popular in Russia.

Statistics based on 3.3M+ analyzed websites. About this data

Lighttpd

LiteSpeed Web Server

Type

Web server

About

Lighttpd (pronounced /lighty/) is an open-source web server optimized for high performance environments and low resource usage.

LiteSpeed Web Server is 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.

It uses an event-driven architecture to handle thousands of concurrent connections with low resource usage, supports HTTP/2, HTTP/3, and QUIC, includes built-in server-level caching through LSCache, and provides security features such as anti-DDoS protection and ModSecurity compatibility.

Headquarters

Germany

Newtown Square, Pennsylvania, United States

Website

lighttpd.net #2,985,840

litespeedtech.com #144,796

Pricing

Free ✔️Open source

Free version ✔️OpenLiteSpeed, open source

Free Starter
(1 domain, up to 2GB RAM)Free ✔️

Site Owner
(5 domains, up to 8GB RAM)$10/month

Site Owner Plus
(5 domains, unlimited RAM)$16/month

Web Host Lite–Elite$26-$92/month

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

LiteSpeed Web Server technology is 279 times more popular than Lighttpd.

Total websites

Market share

Web Servers

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

LiteSpeed Web Server is more popular than Lighttpd in all countries.

United States

United Kingdom

Australia

India

Poland

Indonesia

Brazil

Netherlands

Turkey

Vietnam

Awards

⭐ 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.

🥇 Most popular in Australia in the Web Servers category.
🥇 Most popular in Indonesia in the Web Servers category.
🥇 Most popular in Turkey in the Web Servers category.
🥇 Most popular in Vietnam in the Web Servers category.
🥇 Most popular in Romania in the Web Servers category.

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

LiteSpeed Web Server is more popular than Lighttpd in all market segments.

Business

Blogs/Wiki

Marketing/Merchandising

Online Shopping

Internet Services

Education/Reference

Entertainment

Travel

General News

Health

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

Name

Rank

#529

#3,706

#15,800

#19,068

#25,252

Name

Rank

#234

#686

#792

#835

#858