⚡ Web Servers in Australia

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.

Australia is an Oceanian country with a population of over 27 million people.

According to our statistics, web servers are detected on 72.9% of websites from Australia.

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

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

The most popular is LiteSpeed Web Server with an impressive share of 36.5%, followed by Nginx with 34.6% and Apache with 23.8%.

LiteSpeed Web Server 36.5%
Nginx 34.6%
Apache 23.8%
Microsoft IIS 4.5%
Tomcat 2.2%
OpenResty 0.9%
Pepyaka 0.3%
Caddy 0.3%
Kestrel 0.1%
Phusion Passenger 0.08%
Google Front End 0.06%
Gunicorn 0.05%
Oracle iPlanet Web Server 0.05%
Lighttpd 0.05%
Google Servlet Engine 0.04%

🚀 Highlights

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

1. LiteSpeed Web Server ^(-2)
5. Tomcat ^(-1)
7. Pepyaka ^(-7)
9. Kestrel ^(-2)
10. Phusion Passenger ^(-2)
11. Google Front End ^(-2)
12. Gunicorn ^(-3)
13. Oracle iPlanet Web Server ^(-6)
14. Lighttpd ^(-2)
16. Cowboy ^(-2)

✨ Best Web Servers

Below is a more detailed list of the top 25 of the 30 web servers used on sites from Australia, ranked by their market share.

Rank	Name	Market share
1	LiteSpeed Web Server Newtown Square, Pennsylvania, United States A high-performance, high-scalability web server that can be used as a drop-in replacement for Apache. FreeOpen source$10+/month	36.5%
2	Nginx Seattle, Washington, United States A lightweight, high-performance open-source HTTP server and reverse proxy. FreeOpen source$3,500+/year	34.6%
3	Apache Wilmington, Delaware, United States A cross-platform open-source web server that has been available since 1995. FreeOpen source	23.8%
4	Microsoft IIS Redmond, Washington, United States An extensible web server developed by Microsoft for Windows systems. Free$$$	4.5%
5	Tomcat Wilmington, Delaware, United States An open-source Java application server that implements Java Servlet and Jakarta Server Pages specifications. FreeOpen source	2.2%
6	OpenResty Millbrae, California, United States An Nginx distribution that bundles the LuaJIT interpreter to run Lua scripts directly inside the web server. FreeOpen source	0.9%
7	Pepyaka Tel Aviv, Israel A web server supposedly based on Nginx and used by the Wix website building platform.	0.3%
8	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	0.3%
9	Kestrel Redmond, Washington, United States An open-source, cross-platform web server for ASP.NET Core. FreeOpen source	0.1%
10	Phusion Passenger Apeldoorn, Netherlands A fast and robust web server and application server for Ruby, Python and Node.js. FreeOpen source$43.32+/month	0.08%
11	Google Front End Mountain View, California, United States A reverse-proxy frontend service provided by Google Cloud.	0.06%
12	Gunicorn Creil, France A Python WSGI HTTP server for UNIX, a pre-fork worker model ported from Ruby's Unicorn project. FreeOpen source	0.05%
13	Oracle iPlanet Web Server Austin, Texas, United States A web server designed for medium and large business applications. Free	0.05%
14	Lighttpd Germany An open-source web server optimized for high performance environments and low resource usage. FreeOpen source	0.05%
15	Google Servlet Engine Mountain View, California, United States A fast, lightweight engine for running Java servlets, developed and used by Google.	0.04%
16	Cowboy France A small, fast, and modern HTTP server for Erlang that supports Websocket, HTTP/2, and REST. FreeOpen source	0.03%
17	Google Host Server Mountain View, California, United States A proprietary web server software used by Google for its web infrastructure.	0.03%
18	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	0.02%
19	Hiawatha Netherlands An open-source, cross-platform web server with built-in protection against SQL injections, XSS and CSRF attacks. FreeOpen source	0.01%
20	Zope Fishers, Indiana, United States An open-source web application server written in Python. FreeOpen source	0.01%
21	OpenBSD httpd Edmonton, Alberta, Canada A lightweight web server included with the OpenBSD operating system. Free	0.009%
22	Tengine Hangzhou, China An open-source web server based on Nginx and developed by the Chinese e-commerce company Alibaba. FreeOpen source	0.007%
23	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.	0.006%
24	Google Web Server Mountain View, California, United States A proprietary web server software used by Google for its web infrastructure.	0.006%
25	Static File Front End Mountain View, California, United States A proprietary web server software used by Google for its web infrastructure.	0.006%

👉 See Also

🌎 Web Servers in other countries

Data is based on the analysis of 73,682 websites from Australia.
Statistics were last calculated on March 21, 2026.
For details, see our methodology and disclaimer.