🆚 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 and Argentina.

Statistics based on 3.7M+ analyzed websites. About this data

Lighttpd

Tomcat

Type

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 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

Germany

Wilmington, Delaware, United States

Website

lighttpd.net #2,985,840

tomcat.apache.org

Pricing

Free ✔️ Open source

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The Tomcat web server is 37 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 and Argentina.

United States

United Kingdom

Australia

Canada

New Zealand

Germany

Netherlands

Korea

Norway

Switzerland

Awards

⭐ 7th most popular in Russia in the Web Servers category.
🔥 12nd most popular in Germany in the Web Servers category.
🔥 12nd most popular in the Netherlands in the Web Servers category.
🔥 14th most popular in the United Kingdom 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 Canada 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

Non-Profit/Advocacy/NGO

Blogs/Wiki

Restaurants

Online Shopping

Sports

Travel

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

Name

Rank

#3,706

#15,800

#25,252

#29,260

#29,650

Name

Rank

#1,553

#2,574

#2,788

#3,344

#3,510