🆚 Lighttpd vs. Nginx
- 📈 Nginx is much more popular than Lighttpd.
- 🌍 Nginx is more popular in all countries.
- ⭐ Lighttpd is particularly popular in Russia.
Statistics based on 3.3M+ analyzed websites. About this data
Lighttpd
NginxType
Web server
Web server
About
Lighttpd (pronounced /lighty/) is an open-source web server optimized for high performance environments and low resource usage.
Nginx is a lightweight, high-performance open-source HTTP server and reverse proxy.
It supports serving static files, HTTP/2 and HTTP/3, SSL/TLS termination with SNI, proxying and load balancing for HTTP, TCP and UDP traffic, and caching of FastCGI/uwsgi/memcached responses.
Headquarters
Germany
Seattle, Washington, United States
Pricing
Free ✔️Open source
Free version ✔️Open source
NGINX Plus Enterprise Edition$3,500+/year
Categories
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
The Nginx web server is 763 times more popular than Lighttpd.
Total websites
Market share
Web Servers
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
Nginx is more popular than Lighttpd in all countries.
United States
Japan
Germany
Russia
United Kingdom
China
Netherlands
France
Spain
Italy
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 the United States in the Caching category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Japan in the Web Servers category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Japan in the Caching category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Germany in the Caching category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Russia in the Caching category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
Nginx is more popular than Lighttpd in all market segments.
Business
Online Shopping
Education/Reference
Blogs/Wiki
Internet Services
Entertainment
Travel
General News
Software/Hardware
Non-Profit/Advocacy/NGO
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
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F5, Inc. 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.