🆚 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 3.5M+ analyzed websites. About this data

Lighttpd

Nginx

Type

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 designed for handling large volumes of concurrent connections with low memory usage.

It supports serving static files, reverse proxying, load balancing for HTTP, TCP, and UDP traffic, SSL/TLS termination with SNI, HTTP/2 and HTTP/3, WebSocket proxying, response compression, and zero-downtime configuration reloads.

Headquarters

Germany

Seattle, Washington, United States

Website

lighttpd.net #2,985,840

nginx.org #37,555

Pricing

Free ✔️ Open source

Free version ✔️ Open source

NGINX Plus Enterprise Edition $3,500+/year

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The Nginx web server is 800 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.
⭐ 7th most popular in Argentina in the Web Servers category.
🔥 11st most popular in Germany in the Web Servers category.
🔥 12nd most popular in the Netherlands in the Web Servers category.
🔥 12nd most popular in the Czech Republic 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 Web Servers 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

General News

Software/Hardware

Non-Profit/Advocacy/NGO

Public Information

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

Name

Rank

#3,706

#15,800

#19,068

#25,252

#29,260

Name

Rank

#17

#18

#21

#38