⚡ Web Servers in Ethiopia

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.

Ethiopia is an East African country with a population of over 127 million people.

According to our statistics, web servers are detected on 80.6% of websites from Ethiopia.

Statistics based on 325 analyzed websites. About this data

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

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

The most popular is LiteSpeed Web Server with an impressive share of 44.3%, followed by Apache with 31.3% and Nginx with 22.5%.

LiteSpeed Web Server 44.3%
Apache 31.3%
Nginx 22.5%
Microsoft IIS 4.2%
OpenResty 0.4%
Tomcat 0.4%

🚀 Highlights

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

1. LiteSpeed Web Server ^(-2)

✨ Best Web Servers

Below is a more detailed list of 6 web servers used on sites from Ethiopia, ranked by their market share.

Rank	Name	Market share
1	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	44.3%
2	Apache Wilmington, Delaware, United States A cross-platform open-source web server that has been available since 1995. FreeOpen source	31.3%
3	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	22.5%
4	Microsoft IIS Redmond, Washington, United States An extensible web server developed by Microsoft for Windows systems. Free$$$	4.2%
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	0.4%
6	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	0.4%

👉 See Also

🌎 Web Servers in other countries
- Egypt
- Ghana
- Kenya

🗃️ 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 325 websites from Ethiopia.
We currently track the presence of 40 web servers across the web.
Of these, 6 were detected on websites from Ethiopia.
Statistics were last calculated on September 15, 2026.
For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.