⚡ Web Servers in Canada

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.

Canada is a North American country with a population of over 40 million people.

According to our statistics, web servers are detected on 69.4% of websites from Canada.

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

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

The most popular is Nginx with an impressive share of 39.5%, followed by Apache with 35.7% and LiteSpeed Web Server with 18%.

Nginx 39.5%
Apache 35.7%
LiteSpeed Web Server 18%
Microsoft IIS 5.7%
OpenResty 1.6%
Tomcat 1.3%
Caddy 0.4%
Phusion Passenger 0.3%
Pepyaka 0.2%
Kestrel 0.1%
Google Servlet Engine 0.08%
Google Front End 0.06%
Google Host Server 0.06%
Resin 0.04%
Lighttpd 0.03%

🚀 Highlights

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

8. Phusion Passenger ^(-4)
9. Pepyaka ^(-5)
10. Kestrel ^(-1)
12. Google Front End ^(-1)
14. Resin ^(-8)
15. Lighttpd ^(-1)
16. WebSphere Application Server ^(-8)
19. Hiawatha ^(-8)
20. OpenBSD httpd ^(-9)
21. Oracle WebLogic Server ^(-5)

✨ Best Web Servers

Below is a more detailed list of the top 25 of the 32 web servers used on sites from Canada, 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	39.5%
2	Apache Wilmington, Delaware, United States A cross-platform open-source web server that has been available since 1995. FreeOpen source	35.7%
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	18%
4	Microsoft IIS Redmond, Washington, United States An extensible web server developed by Microsoft for Windows systems. Free$$$	5.7%
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	1.6%
6	Tomcat Wilmington, Delaware, United States An open-source Java application server that implements Java Servlet and Jakarta Server Pages specifications. FreeOpen source	1.3%
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	0.4%
8	Phusion Passenger Apeldoorn, Netherlands A fast and robust web server and application server for Ruby, Python and Node.js. FreeOpen source$43.32+/month	0.3%
9	Pepyaka Tel Aviv, Israel A web server supposedly based on Nginx and used by the Wix website building platform.	0.2%
10	Kestrel Redmond, Washington, United States An open-source, cross-platform web server for ASP.NET Core. FreeOpen source	0.1%
11	Google Servlet Engine Mountain View, California, United States A fast, lightweight engine for running Java servlets, developed and used by Google.	0.08%
12	Google Front End Mountain View, California, United States A reverse-proxy frontend service provided by Google Cloud.	0.06%
13	Google Host Server Mountain View, California, United States A proprietary web server software used by Google for its web infrastructure.	0.06%
14	Resin San Diego, California, United States A Java EE-certified application server. Free$849+/year	0.04%
15	Lighttpd Germany An open-source web server optimized for high performance environments and low resource usage. FreeOpen source	0.03%
16	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	0.03%
17	Gunicorn Creil, France A Python WSGI HTTP server for UNIX, a pre-fork worker model ported from Ruby's Unicorn project. FreeOpen source	0.03%
18	Cowboy France A small, fast, and modern HTTP server for Erlang that supports Websocket, HTTP/2, and REST. FreeOpen source	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	0.02%
20	OpenBSD httpd Edmonton, Alberta, Canada A lightweight web server included with the OpenBSD operating system. Free	0.02%
21	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	0.02%
22	Angie Moscow, Russia An efficient web server that was forked from Nginx by its former developers. FreeOpen source$$$	0.01%
23	Oracle iPlanet Web Server Austin, Texas, United States A web server designed for medium and large business applications. Free	0.01%
24	Tengine Hangzhou, China An open-source web server based on Nginx and developed by the Chinese e-commerce company Alibaba. FreeOpen source	0.009%
25	Thin Montreal, Quebec, Canada A fast and simple Ruby web server. FreeOpen source	0.006%

👉 See Also

🌎 Web Servers in other countries

Data is based on the analysis of 66,600 websites from Canada.
Statistics were last calculated on March 21, 2026.
For details, see our methodology and disclaimer.