⚡ Web Servers in Belgium

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.

Belgium is a Western European country with a population of over 12 million people.

According to our statistics, web servers are detected on 75.4% of websites from Belgium.

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

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

The most popular is Nginx with an impressive share of 51.4%, followed by Apache with 37.6% and LiteSpeed Web Server with 5.7%.

Nginx 51.4%
Apache 37.6%
LiteSpeed Web Server 5.7%
Microsoft IIS 4.6%
Caddy 1.1%
Tomcat 0.6%
OpenResty 0.6%
Zope 0.4%
Pepyaka 0.2%
Gunicorn 0.2%
Google Front End 0.1%
Kestrel 0.1%
Google Servlet Engine 0.1%
Phusion Passenger 0.1%
Cowboy 0.07%

🚀 Highlights

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

5. Caddy ^(-2)
8. Zope ^(-12)
9. Pepyaka ^(-5)
10. Gunicorn ^(-5)
11. Google Front End ^(-2)
15. Cowboy ^(-3)
18. Domino Web Server ^(-7)
19. WebSphere Application Server ^(-5)
20. Oracle Application Server ^(-14)
22. Hiawatha ^(-5)

✨ Best Web Servers

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

Rank	Name	Market share
1	Nginx Seattle, Washington, United States A lightweight, high-performance open-source HTTP server and reverse proxy. FreeOpen source$3,500+/year	51.4%
2	Apache Wilmington, Delaware, United States A cross-platform open-source web server that has been available since 1995. FreeOpen source	37.6%
3	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	5.7%
4	Microsoft IIS Redmond, Washington, United States An extensible web server developed by Microsoft for Windows systems. Free$$$	4.6%
5	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	1.1%
6	Tomcat Wilmington, Delaware, United States An open-source Java application server that implements Java Servlet and Jakarta Server Pages specifications. FreeOpen source	0.6%
7	OpenResty Millbrae, California, United States An Nginx distribution that bundles the LuaJIT interpreter to run Lua scripts directly inside the web server. FreeOpen source	0.6%
8	Zope Fishers, Indiana, United States An open-source web application server written in Python. FreeOpen source	0.4%
9	Pepyaka Tel Aviv, Israel A web server supposedly based on Nginx and used by the Wix website building platform.	0.2%
10	Gunicorn Creil, France A Python WSGI HTTP server for UNIX, a pre-fork worker model ported from Ruby's Unicorn project. FreeOpen source	0.2%
11	Google Front End Mountain View, California, United States A reverse-proxy frontend service provided by Google Cloud.	0.1%
12	Kestrel Redmond, Washington, United States An open-source, cross-platform web server for ASP.NET Core. FreeOpen source	0.1%
13	Google Servlet Engine Mountain View, California, United States A fast, lightweight engine for running Java servlets, developed and used by Google.	0.1%
14	Phusion Passenger Apeldoorn, Netherlands A fast and robust web server and application server for Ruby, Python and Node.js. FreeOpen source$43.32+/month	0.1%
15	Cowboy France A small, fast, and modern HTTP server for Erlang that supports Websocket, HTTP/2, and REST. FreeOpen source	0.07%
16	Lighttpd Germany An open-source web server optimized for high performance environments and low resource usage. FreeOpen source	0.04%
17	Google Host Server Mountain View, California, United States A proprietary web server software used by Google for its web infrastructure.	0.04%
18	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.	0.01%
19	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	0.01%
20	Oracle Application Server Austin, Texas, United States A completely standards-based application server that provides a comprehensive and fully integrated platform for running Web sites, J2EE applications, and Web services. $$$	0.01%
21	Oracle iPlanet Web Server Austin, Texas, United States A web server designed for medium and large business applications. Free	0.01%
22	Hiawatha Netherlands An open-source, cross-platform web server with built-in protection against SQL injections, XSS and CSRF attacks. FreeOpen source	0.01%
23	Google Web Server Mountain View, California, United States A proprietary web server software used by Google for its web infrastructure.	0.01%
24	Oracle WebLogic Server Austin, Texas, United States 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	0.01%
25	Angie Moscow, Russia An efficient web server that was forked from Nginx by its former developers. FreeOpen source$$$	0.01%

👉 See Also

🌎 Web Servers in other countries

Data is based on the analysis of 26,837 websites from Belgium.
Statistics were last calculated on March 20, 2026.
For details, see our methodology and disclaimer.