🆚 Microsoft IIS vs. Zope

Compare technologies based on real-world usage data *

📈 Microsoft IIS is much more popular than Zope.
🌍 Microsoft IIS is more popular in all countries.
⭐ Zope is particularly popular in Germany.

Type

Web server

Web server

About

Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) is an extensible web server developed by Microsoft for Windows systems.

It has a modular architecture with standalone components, supports HTTP, HTTP/2, HTTP/3, HTTPS, FTP, FTPS, SMTP, and NNTP protocols, enables worker process isolation through application pools, and provides native integration with ASP.NET and ASP.NET Core.

Zope is an open-source web application server written in Python.

Headquarters

Redmond, Washington, United States

Fishers, Indiana, United States

Website

iis.net #106,574

zope.dev #1,085,626

Pricing

Free version ✔️IIS Express

Bundled with Windows Server, which is $1,176+

Free ✔️Open source

Categories

Web Servers › Rank #4

Web Servers › Rank #20

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The Microsoft IIS web server is 227 times more popular than Zope.

Total websites

Market share

Web Servers

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

Microsoft IIS is more popular than Zope in all countries.

United States

China

United Kingdom

Italy

Turkey

India

Netherlands

Germany

Canada

Brazil

Awards

🥇 Most popular in Brunei Darussalam in the Web Servers category.
🥈 Second most popular in China in the Web Servers category.
🥈 Second most popular in Turkey in the Web Servers category.
🥈 Second most popular in Cambodia in the Web Servers category.
🥉 Third most popular in Italy in the Web Servers category.

⭐ 8th most popular in Belgium in the Web Servers category.
⭐ 8th most popular in Austria in the Web Servers category.
🔥 12nd most popular in Germany in the Web Servers category.
🔥 12nd most popular in Spain in the Web Servers category.
🔥 12nd most popular in Switzerland in the Web Servers category.

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

Microsoft IIS is more popular than Zope in all market segments.

Business

Education/Reference

Marketing/Merchandising

Online Shopping

Health

Internet Services

Travel

Software/Hardware

Public Information

Sports

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

Name

Rank

#73

#74

stackoverflow.com

#101

#227

#261

Name

Rank

#5,468

#6,300

#6,980

#8,581

#11,114

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Statistics were last calculated on March 21, 2026.
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