🆚 Lighttpd vs. Tomcat
- 📈 Tomcat is much more popular than Lighttpd.
- 🌎 Tomcat is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia.
- 🌍 Lighttpd is more popular in Russia, Argentina, and Latvia.
Statistics based on 3.3M+ analyzed websites. About this data
Lighttpd
TomcatType
Web server
Web server
About
Lighttpd (pronounced /lighty/) is an open-source web server optimized for high performance environments and low resource usage.
Apache Tomcat is an open-source 
Java application server that implements Java Servlet and Jakarta Server Pages specifications.
Headquarters
Germany
Wilmington, Delaware, United States
tomcat.apache.orgPricing
Free ✔️Open source
Free ✔️Open source
Categories
Web Servers › Rank #16
Web Servers › Rank #6
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
The Tomcat web server is 23 times more popular than Lighttpd.
Total websites
Market share
Web Servers
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
Tomcat is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia, while Lighttpd is more popular in Russia, Argentina, and Latvia.
United States
United Kingdom
Australia
Canada
Russia
Indonesia
Netherlands
Germany
New Zealand
Korea
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.
- ⭐ 5th most popular in the United States 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 Indonesia in the Web Servers category.
- ⭐ 5th most popular in New Zealand in the Web Servers category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
Tomcat is more popular than Lighttpd in all market segments.
Business
Marketing/Merchandising
Education/Reference
Entertainment
Blogs/Wiki
Non-Profit/Advocacy/NGO
Online Shopping
Restaurants
Health
Internet Services
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
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GlassFish🗃️ 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.