⚡ Web Server Modules in South Africa

Web server modules are software components that extend the functionality of a web server by providing features such as authentication, caching, load balancing, URL rewriting, and security enhancements.

South Africa is an African country with a population of over 60 million people.

According to our data, web server modules are used on 0.9% of websites from South Africa.

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

The following chart shows the top web server modules in South Africa in 2026, based on market share.

The most popular is OpenSSL with a substantial share of 63%, followed by PageSpeed with 32.7% and mod_fcgid with 10.5%.

OpenSSL 63%
PageSpeed 32.7%
mod_fcgid 10.5%
mod_aclr2 4.3%
mod_perl 1.2%
mod_jk 1.2%
mod_bwlimited 1.2%
mod_python 0.6%

🚀 Highlights

Here is a list of the top modules that are more popular in South Africa than worldwide.
Differences between global and country rankings are shown in parentheses.

5. mod_perl ^(-3)
6. mod_jk ^(-3)
8. mod_python ^(-3)

✨ Best Web Server Modules

Below is a more detailed list of 8 web server modules used on sites from South Africa, ranked by their market share.

Rank	Name	Market share
1	OpenSSL Newark, Delaware, United States An open-source software library that provides strong encryption using the SSL and TLS protocols.	63%
2	PageSpeed Mountain View, California, United States An open-source web server module for rewriting web pages to reduce latency and bandwidth, available for Apache and Nginx.	32.7%
3	mod_fcgid Wilmington, Delaware, United States A FastCGI module for the Apache HTTP Server. FreeOpen source	10.5%
4	mod_aclr2 Lafayette, Colorado, United States An Apache web server module that automates serving static content with NGINX as a reverse proxy. FreeOpen source	4.3%
5	mod_perl Wilmington, Delaware, United States A module for the Apache web server that embeds a Perl interpreter into the server. FreeOpen source	1.2%
6	mod_jk Wilmington, Delaware, United States A module designed to forward requests from Apache to the Tomcat web server to run Java-based web applications. FreeOpen source	1.2%
7	mod_bwlimited Houston, Texas, United States A CPanel module that allows limiting and monitoring of bandwidth and connection speed.	1.2%
8	mod_python Wilmington, Delaware, United States An Apache web server module that embeds the Python interpreter within the server, allowing Python code to run many times faster than traditional CGI by executing inside persistent Apache processes. FreeOpen source	0.6%

👉 See Also

🌎 Web Server Modules in other countries

Data is based on the analysis of 17,795 websites from South Africa.
Statistics were last calculated on March 21, 2026.
For details, see our methodology and disclaimer.