⚡ 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.

They commonly support HTTP and HTTPS protocols, virtual hosting, URL rewriting, load balancing, reverse proxying, and caching, while also integrating language interpreters and application runtimes.

According to our statistics, web servers are detected on 67.9% of all websites.
96.9% of these sites use only one web server, 3.1% use two.

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⭐ Most Popular in 2026

The following chart shows the leading web servers in 2026, based on market share.

The most popular is Nginx with an impressive share of 42.2%, followed by Apache with 33.9% and LiteSpeed Web Server with 15.4%.

🚀 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
Nginx
Seattle, Washington, United States

A lightweight, high-performance open-source HTTP server and reverse proxy designed for handling large volumes of concurrent connections with low memory usage.

FreeOpen source$3,500+/year
2
Apache
Wilmington, Delaware, United States

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

FreeOpen source
3
LiteSpeed Web Server
Newtown Square, Pennsylvania, United States

A high-performance commercial web server that can operate as a drop-in replacement for Apache, using the same configuration files and control panel integrations.

FreeOpen source$10+/month
4
Microsoft IIS
Redmond, Washington, United States

An extensible web server developed by Microsoft for Windows systems.

Free$$$
5
OpenResty
Millbrae, California, United States

An Nginx distribution that bundles the LuaJIT interpreter to run Lua scripts directly inside the web server.

FreeOpen source
6
Tomcat
Wilmington, Delaware, United States

An open-source Java application server that implements the Jakarta Servlet, Jakarta Server Pages, Jakarta Expression Language, and Jakarta WebSocket specifications.

FreeOpen source
7
Caddy
Vienna, Austria

An open-source multi-platform web server written in Go with built-in support for automatic HTTPS and modern web protocols.

FreeOpen source
8
Kestrel
Redmond, Washington, United States

An open-source, cross-platform web server for ASP.NET Core that can serve HTTP requests on Windows, Linux, and macOS.

FreeOpen source
9
Google Servlet Engine
Mountain View, California, United States

A fast, lightweight engine for running Java servlets, developed and used by Google.
10
Tengine
Hangzhou, China

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

FreeOpen source
11
Google Host Server
Mountain View, California, United States

A proprietary web server software used by Google for its web infrastructure.
12
Phusion Passenger
Apeldoorn, Netherlands

Phusion Passenger a fast and robust web server and application server for Ruby, Python and Node.js.

FreeOpen source$44.56+/month
13
Gunicorn
Creil, France

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

FreeOpen source
14
Pepyaka
Tel Aviv, Israel

A web server supposedly based on Nginx and used by the Wix website building platform.
15
Cowboy
France

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

FreeOpen source
16
Angie
Moscow, Russia

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

FreeOpen source$$$
17
Zope
Fishers, Indiana, United States

An open-source web application server and web framework written in Python.

FreeOpen source
18
Lighttpd
Germany

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

FreeOpen source
19
Oracle iPlanet Web Server
Austin, Texas, United States

An enterprise web server designed for medium and large business applications and high-volume Java-based web environments.

Free
20
Google Web Server
Mountain View, California, United States

A proprietary web server software used by Google for its web infrastructure.
21
Static File Front End
Mountain View, California, United States

A proprietary web server software used by Google for its web infrastructure.
22
WebSphere Application Server
Armonk, New York, United States

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

Free$759+/month
23
Oracle WebLogic Server
Austin, Texas, United States

Oracle WebLogic Server an enterprise-grade application server used for developing, deploying, and running applications built on Java EE for on-premises and in the cloud.

$10,000+/processor
24
Domino Web Server
Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India

Comes with Domino and allows organizations to serve pages stored in the file system or in a Domino database.
25
Resin
San Diego, California, United States

A Java EE-certified application server.

Free$849+/year

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