⚡ 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 69.5% of websites from China.

Statistics based on 64K+ 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 58.8% share.
It is followed by OpenResty with 11.3% and Microsoft IIS with 10.5%.

Nginx 58.8%
OpenResty 11.3%
Microsoft IIS 10.5%
Apache 9.9%
Tengine 9.1%
LiteSpeed Web Server 2.2%
Kestrel 0.4%
Caddy 0.3%
Tomcat 0.2%
Google Servlet Engine 0.1%
Google Host Server 0.08%
Phusion Passenger 0.04%
Cowboy 0.04%
Gunicorn 0.03%
Angie 0.03%

🚀 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. OpenResty ^(-3)
3. Microsoft IIS ^(-1)
5. Tengine ^(-6)
7. Kestrel ^(-1)
16. Tornado ^(-14)
17. Google Web Server ^(-1)
18. Static File Front End ^(-3)
20. Resin ^(-4)
21. GlassFish ^(-8)

✨ Best Web Servers

Below is a more detailed list of 23 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 designed for handling large volumes of concurrent connections with low memory usage. FreeOpen source$3,500+/year	58.8%
2	OpenResty Millbrae, California, United States An Nginx distribution that bundles the LuaJIT interpreter to run Lua scripts directly inside the web server. FreeOpen source	11.3%
3	Microsoft IIS Redmond, Washington, United States An extensible web server developed by Microsoft for Windows systems. Free$$$	10.5%
4	Apache Wilmington, Delaware, United States A cross-platform open-source web server that has been available since 1995. FreeOpen source	9.9%
5	Tengine Hangzhou, China An open-source web server based on Nginx and developed by the Chinese e-commerce company Alibaba. FreeOpen source	9.1%
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	2.2%
7	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	0.4%
8	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	0.3%
9	Tomcat Wilmington, Delaware, United States An open-source Java application server that implements the Jakarta Servlet, Jakarta Server Pages, Jakarta Expression Language, and Jakarta WebSocket specifications. FreeOpen source	0.2%
10	Google Servlet Engine Mountain View, California, United States A fast, lightweight engine for running Java servlets, developed and used by Google.	0.1%
11	Google Host Server Mountain View, California, United States A proprietary web server software used by Google for its web infrastructure.	0.08%
12	Phusion Passenger Apeldoorn, Netherlands Phusion Passenger a fast and robust web server and application server for Ruby, Python and Node.js. FreeOpen source$44.56+/month	0.04%
13	Cowboy France A small, fast, and modern HTTP server for Erlang that supports WebSocket, HTTP/2, and REST. FreeOpen source	0.04%
14	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%
15	Angie Moscow, Russia An efficient web server that was forked from Nginx by its former developers. FreeOpen source$$$	0.03%
16	Tornado A scalable, non-blocking web server and web application framework written in Python.	0.02%
17	Google Web Server Mountain View, California, United States A proprietary web server software used by Google for its web infrastructure.	0.02%
18	Static File Front End Mountain View, California, United States A proprietary web server software used by Google for its web infrastructure.	0.01%
19	Lighttpd Germany An open-source web server optimized for high performance environments and low resource usage. FreeOpen source	0.009%
20	Resin San Diego, California, United States A Java EE-certified application server. Free$849+/year	0.009%
21	GlassFish Brussels, Belgium A complete application server that implements the Jakarta EE specification. FreeOpen source	0.004%
22	Oracle iPlanet Web Server Austin, Texas, United States An enterprise web server designed for medium and large business applications and high-volume Java-based web environments. Free	0.002%
23	Oracle WebLogic Server Austin, Texas, United States Oracle WebLogic Server 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%

👉 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 64,975 websites from China.
We currently track the presence of 40 web servers across the web.
Of these, 23 were detected on websites from China.
Statistics were last calculated on September 19, 2026.
For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.