⚡ Web Servers in China

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.

China is an East Asian country with a population of around 1.4 billion people.

According to our statistics, web servers are detected on 73.9% of websites from China.

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

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

The most popular is Nginx, which dominates the market with an overwhelming 62% share.
It is followed by Microsoft IIS with 14% and Apache with 8.6%.

Nginx 62%
Microsoft IIS 14%
Apache 8.6%
Tengine 7.9%
OpenResty 7.7%
LiteSpeed Web Server 1.4%
Caddy 0.2%
Tomcat 0.2%
Kestrel 0.08%
Google Servlet Engine 0.02%
Google Front End 0.01%
Gunicorn 0.01%
Phusion Passenger 0.01%
Google Host Server 0.01%
Resin 0.01%

🚀 Highlights

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

2. Microsoft IIS ^(-2)
4. Tengine ^(-5)
9. Kestrel ^(-2)
11. Google Front End ^(-2)
12. Gunicorn ^(-3)
15. Resin ^(-7)
17. Static File Front End ^(-6)
18. Tornado ^(-14)
19. Google Web Server ^(-2)
22. GlassFish ^(-9)

✨ Best Web Servers

Below is a more detailed list of 24 web servers used on sites from China, 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	62%
2	Microsoft IIS Redmond, Washington, United States An extensible web server developed by Microsoft for Windows systems. Free$$$	14%
3	Apache Wilmington, Delaware, United States A cross-platform open-source web server that has been available since 1995. FreeOpen source	8.6%
4	Tengine Hangzhou, China An open-source web server based on Nginx and developed by the Chinese e-commerce company Alibaba. FreeOpen source	7.9%
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	7.7%
6	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	1.4%
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	0.2%
8	Tomcat Wilmington, Delaware, United States An open-source Java application server that implements Java Servlet and Jakarta Server Pages specifications. FreeOpen source	0.2%
9	Kestrel Redmond, Washington, United States An open-source, cross-platform web server for ASP.NET Core. FreeOpen source	0.08%
10	Google Servlet Engine Mountain View, California, United States A fast, lightweight engine for running Java servlets, developed and used by Google.	0.02%
11	Google Front End Mountain View, California, United States A reverse-proxy frontend service provided by Google Cloud.	0.01%
12	Gunicorn Creil, France A Python WSGI HTTP server for UNIX, a pre-fork worker model ported from Ruby's Unicorn project. FreeOpen source	0.01%
13	Phusion Passenger Apeldoorn, Netherlands A fast and robust web server and application server for Ruby, Python and Node.js. FreeOpen source$43.32+/month	0.01%
14	Google Host Server Mountain View, California, United States A proprietary web server software used by Google for its web infrastructure.	0.01%
15	Resin San Diego, California, United States A Java EE-certified application server. Free$849+/year	0.01%
16	Lighttpd Germany An open-source web server optimized for high performance environments and low resource usage. FreeOpen source	0.01%
17	Static File Front End Mountain View, California, United States A proprietary web server software used by Google for its web infrastructure.	0.008%
18	Tornado A scalable, non-blocking web server and web application framework written in Python.	0.007%
19	Google Web Server Mountain View, California, United States A proprietary web server software used by Google for its web infrastructure.	0.007%
20	Angie Moscow, Russia An efficient web server that was forked from Nginx by its former developers. FreeOpen source$$$	0.007%
21	Oracle iPlanet Web Server Austin, Texas, United States A web server designed for medium and large business applications. Free	0.003%
22	GlassFish Brussels, Belgium A complete application server that implements the Jakarta EE specification. FreeOpen source	0.003%
23	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	0.002%
24	Pepyaka Tel Aviv, Israel A web server supposedly based on Nginx and used by the Wix website building platform.	0.002%

👉 See Also

🌎 Web Servers in other countries

Data is based on the analysis of 82,655 websites from China.
Statistics were last calculated on March 21, 2026.
For details, see our methodology and disclaimer.