⚡ 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.

According to our statistics, web servers are detected on 77.3% of websites from China.

⭐ Most Popular in 2025

The following chart shows the top web servers in China in 2025, based on market share.

The most popular is Nginx, which dominates the market with an overwhelming 72.1% share.
It is followed by Microsoft IIS with 11.7% and OpenResty with 6.8%.

🚀 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.

✨ Best Web Servers

Below is a more detailed list of all web servers used on sites from China, ranked by their market share.

RankNameMarket share
1 NginxSeattle, Washington, United States

A lightweight, high-performance open-source HTTP server and reverse proxy.
2 Microsoft IISRedmond, Washington, United States

An extensible web server developed by Microsoft for Windows systems.
3 OpenRestyMillbrae, California, United States

An Nginx distribution which includes the LuaJIT interpreter for Lua scripts.
4 ApacheWilmington, Delaware, United States

A cross-platform open-source web server that has been available since 1995.
5 TengineHangzhou, China

An open source web server based on Nginx and developed by the Chinese e-commerce company Alibaba.
6 LiteSpeed Web ServerNewtown Square, Pennsylvania, United States

A high-performance, high-scalability web server that can be used as a drop-in replacement for Apache.
7 TomcatWilmington, Delaware, United States

An open source Java application server that implements Java Servlet and Jakarta Server Pages specifications.
8 CaddyVienna, Austria

An extensible multi-platform web server with automatic HTTPS, written in Go.
9 KestrelRedmond, Washington, United States

An open source, cross-platform web server for ASP.NET Core.
10 ResinSan Diego, California, United States

A Java EE-certified application server.
11 Phusion PassengerApeldoorn, Netherlands

A fast and robust web server and application server for Ruby, Python and Node.js.
12 Google Front EndMountain View, California, United States

A reverse-proxy frontend service provided by Google Cloud.
13 Google Servlet EngineMountain View, California, United States

A fast, lightweight engine for running Java servlets, developed and used by Google.
14 Lighttpd

An open source web server optimized for high performance environments and low resource usage.
15 PepyakaTel Aviv, Israel

A web server supposedly based on Nginx and used by the Wix website building platform.
16 Google Host ServerMountain View, California, United States

A proprietary web server software used by Google for its web infrastructure.
17 Tornado

A scalable, non-blocking web server and web application framework written in Python.
18 Google Web ServerMountain View, California, United States

A proprietary web server software used by Google for its web infrastructure.
19 GunicornCreil, France

A Python WSGI HTTP server for UNIX, a pre-fork worker model ported from Ruby's Unicorn project.
20 Static File Front EndMountain View, California, United States

A proprietary web server software used by Google for its web infrastructure.
21 GlassFishBrussels, Belgium

A complete application server that implements the Jakarta EE specification.
22 CowboyFrance

A small, fast, and modern HTTP server for Erlang that supports Websocket, HTTP/2, and REST.
23 Oracle iPlanet Web ServerAustin, Texas, United States
24 Oracle HTTP ServerAustin, Texas, United States

👉 See Also

Data is based on the analysis of 158,490 websites from China.
Statistics were last calculated on .
For details, see our methodology and disclaimer.