⚡ Web Servers

Web servers are specialized computer programs that process requests from users' browsers to websites on the Internet and deliver web content by serving files such as HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and media assets.

According to our statistics, web servers are detected on 72.9% of all websites.
96.5% of these sites use only one web server, 3.4% use two, and 0.1% use three or more simultaneously.

⭐ Most Popular in 2025

The following chart shows the leading web servers in 2025, based on market share.

The most popular is Nginx with an impressive share of 41.8%, followed by Apache with 34.6% and LiteSpeed Web Server with 15.5%.

🚀 Country Highlights

Here is a list of servers that are especially popular in certain countries.
Differences between global and country rankings are shown in parentheses.

✨ Best Web Servers

Below is a more detailed list of the top 25 of the 40 web servers we detect, ranked by their market share.

RankNameMarket share
1 NginxSeattle, Washington, United States

A lightweight, high-performance open-source HTTP server and reverse proxy.

2 ApacheWilmington, Delaware, United States

A cross-platform open-source web server that has been available since 1995.

3 LiteSpeed Web ServerNewtown Square, Pennsylvania, United States

A high-performance, high-scalability web server that can be used as a drop-in replacement for Apache.

4 Microsoft IISRedmond, Washington, United States

An extensible web server developed by Microsoft for Windows systems.

5 OpenRestyMillbrae, California, United States

An Nginx distribution which includes the LuaJIT interpreter for Lua scripts.

6 TomcatWilmington, Delaware, United States

An open source Java application server that implements Java Servlet and Jakarta Server Pages specifications.

7 CaddyVienna, Austria

An extensible multi-platform web server with automatic HTTPS, written in Go.

8 TengineHangzhou, China

An open source web server based on Nginx and developed by the Chinese e-commerce company Alibaba.

9 PepyakaTel Aviv, Israel

A web server supposedly based on Nginx and used by the Wix website building platform.

10 Google Servlet EngineMountain View, California, United States

A fast, lightweight engine for running Java servlets, developed and used by Google.

11 Phusion PassengerApeldoorn, Netherlands

A fast and robust web server and application server for Ruby, Python and Node.js.

12 Google Front EndMountain View, California, United States

A reverse-proxy frontend service provided by Google Cloud.

13 Google Host ServerMountain View, California, United States

A proprietary web server software used by Google for its web infrastructure.

14 KestrelRedmond, Washington, United States

An open source, cross-platform web server for ASP.NET Core.

15 CowboyFrance

A small, fast, and modern HTTP server for Erlang that supports Websocket, HTTP/2, and REST.

16 GunicornCreil, France

A Python WSGI HTTP server for UNIX, a pre-fork worker model ported from Ruby's Unicorn project.

17 Lighttpd

An open source web server optimized for high performance environments and low resource usage.

18 AngieMoscow, Russia

An efficient web server that was forked from Nginx by its former developers.

19 ZopeFishers, Indiana, United States

An open source web application server written in Python.

20 Google Web ServerMountain View, California, United States

A proprietary web server software used by Google for its web infrastructure.

21 Oracle iPlanet Web ServerAustin, Texas, United States
22 HiawathaNetherlands

An open source, cross-platform web server with built-in protection against SQL injections, XSS and CSRF attacks.

23 ResinSan Diego, California, United States

A Java EE-certified application server.

24 WebSphere Application ServerArmonk, New York, United States

A flexible, secure Java server runtime environment designed to accelerate the delivery of enterprise applications.

25 Domino Web ServerNoida, Uttar Pradesh, India

Comes with Domino and allows organizations to serve pages stored in the file system or in a Domino database.

👉 See Also

Data is based on the analysis of 2,564,428 websites.
Statistics were last calculated on .
For details, see our methodology and disclaimer.