⚡ 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 73.8% of websites from China.

Statistics based on 83K+ analyzed websites. About this data

⭐ 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 61.9% share.
It is followed by Microsoft IIS with 14% and Apache with 8.6%.

Nginx 61.9%
Microsoft IIS 14%
Apache 8.6%
Tengine 7.9%
OpenResty 7.7%
LiteSpeed Web Server 1.4%
Caddy 0.2%
Tomcat 0.2%
Kestrel 0.09%
Google Servlet Engine 0.02%
Phusion Passenger 0.02%
Google Host Server 0.01%
Gunicorn 0.01%
Google Front End 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. Phusion Passenger ^(-2)
13. Gunicorn ^(-2)
15. Resin ^(-7)
16. Static File Front End ^(-7)
18. Tornado ^(-14)
19. Google Web Server ^(-2)
22. GlassFish ^(-9)

✨ Best Web Servers

Below is a more detailed list of the top 25 of the 25 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	61.9%
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 commercial web server that can operate as a drop-in replacement for Apache, using the same configuration files and control panel integrations. 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 that can serve HTTP requests on Windows, Linux, and macOS. FreeOpen source	0.09%
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	Phusion Passenger Apeldoorn, Netherlands A fast and robust web server and application server for Ruby, Python and Node.js. FreeOpen source$43.32+/month	0.02%
12	Google Host Server Mountain View, California, United States A proprietary web server software used by Google for its web infrastructure.	0.01%
13	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%
14	Google Front End Mountain View, California, United States A reverse-proxy frontend service provided by Google Cloud.	0.01%
15	Resin San Diego, California, United States A Java EE-certified application server. Free$849+/year	0.01%
16	Static File Front End Mountain View, California, United States A proprietary web server software used by Google for its web infrastructure.	0.01%
17	Lighttpd Germany An open-source web server optimized for high performance environments and low resource usage. FreeOpen source	0.01%
18	Tornado A scalable, non-blocking web server and web application framework written in Python.	0.006%
19	Google Web Server Mountain View, California, United States A proprietary web server software used by Google for its web infrastructure.	0.006%
20	Angie Moscow, Russia An efficient web server that was forked from Nginx by its former developers. FreeOpen source$$$	0.006%
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	Cowboy France A small, fast, and modern HTTP server for Erlang that supports WebSocket, HTTP/2, and REST. FreeOpen source	0.002%
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	0.002%
25	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

🗃️ About This Data

We evaluate the popularity of technologies based on the number of websites where we detect their usage.
Technologies without a detectable web footprint, and those we do not track, are not reflected in the calculated market share.
This report is based on the analysis of 83,567 websites from China.
We currently track the presence of 41 web servers across the web.
Of these, 25 were detected on websites from China.
Statistics were last calculated on May 6, 2026.
For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.