LEMP
LEMP is an open-source web application stack consisting of Linux, 
Nginx, MySQL, and 
PHP, Perl, or Python.
According to our data, LEMP is the most popular tech stack on the web.
It has 40.6% of the tech stack market share and is detected on 12.3% of all websites.
- 🏠 Website
LAMP📊 Rankings and Market Share
- Tech Stack
- Rank: 1
- Market share: 40.6%
🏆 LEMP Awards
- 🥇 Most popular in the United States in the Tech Stack category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Japan in the Tech Stack category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Russia in the Tech Stack category.
- 🥇 Most popular in the United Kingdom in the Tech Stack category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Spain in the Tech Stack category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Italy in the Tech Stack category.
- 🥇 Most popular in the Netherlands in the Tech Stack category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Australia in the Tech Stack category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Ukraine in the Tech Stack category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Greece in the Tech Stack category.
⚡ Sites Using LEMP
We have data on 415,449 websites that use the LEMP tech stack. Here is a list of some of the top ranked ones.
The highest rated site using LEMP is 
bitly.com.
| # | Website | Rank | Country | Language |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bitly.com |
#17 | American English | |
| 2 |  tumblr.com |
#78 | United States | American English |
| 3 |  wordpress.com |
#83 | United States | English |
| 4 | #140 | United States | American English | |
| 5 | #420 | Venezuela | Spanish | |
| 6 |  code.jquery.com |
United States | American English | |
| 7 | #556 | United States | American English | |
| 8 | #842 | English | ||
| 9 | #901 | France | Persian | |
| 10 | #929 | France | Persian | |
| 11 | #980 | Lithuania | Malayalam | |
| 12 | #1,013 | United States | American English | |
| 13 | #1,064 | United States | American English | |
| 14 | #1,093 | United States | American English | |
| 15 | #1,101 | United States | American English | |
| 16 |  viber.com |
#1,179 | American English | |
| 17 | #1,199 | Brazil | Brazilian Portuguese | |
| 18 | #1,215 | American English | ||
| 19 | #1,230 | India | English | |
| 20 | #1,258 | United States | American English |
📈 Usage Statistics
Most of the sites that use LEMP:
- are located in the United States
- have content in English
- use the .com domain extension
- fall into the Business category.
Most of the sites using LEMP are from the United States, Japan, and Germany.
- United States 18.7%
- Japan 12.7%
- Germany 6.7%
- Russia 6.6%
- United Kingdom 5.2%
- Spain 4.7%
- Italy 4.2%
- Netherlands 3.9%
- France 3.1%
- Other 34.2%
Most LEMP users speak English, Japanese, or Russian.
- English 44.9%
- Japanese 11.3%
- Russian 7.6%
- German 6.6%
- Spanish 5.4%
- Italian 3.5%
- Dutch 3.3%
- French 2.8%
- Portuguese 1.8%
- Other 12.8%
The LEMP tech stack is especially popular on .com and .org top-level domains.
- .com 41.8%
- .org 6.5%
- .ru 4.9%
- .de 4.2%
- .net 2.9%
- .jp 2.6%
- .nl 2.5%
- .it 2.4%
- .co.uk 2%
- Other 30.2%
The primary market segments for websites utilizing LEMP include business, marketing and merchandising, and blogs and wiki.
- Business 19%
- Marketing/Merchandising 12%
- Blogs/Wiki 8.8%
- Online Shopping 7.3%
- Education/Reference 6.2%
- Internet Services 4.5%
- Entertainment 4.2%
- Travel 3.8%
- Health 3.7%
- Other 30.5%
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💬 Frequently Asked Questions
Which country uses LEMP the most?
The majority of LEMP users are from the United States.
Who uses LEMP?
According to our data, LEMP is used on thousands of sites, including such established ones as bitly.com, tumblr.com, and wordpress.com.
Is LEMP used on government websites?
Yes, for example, it is used by nasa.gov. Overall, we found LEMP on 147 government sites in the United States.
Do academic institutions use LEMP?
Yes, quite a few! The most prominent of these are harvard.edu and
stanford.edu. In total, we know of 637 academic websites in the United States that use LEMP.
How does LEMP compare to the competition?
LEMP is the most popular tech stack on the market, outranking all others.
🗃️ 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 3,371,595 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.