⚡ Web Servers in France

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.

France is a Western European country with a population of around 69 million people.

According to our statistics, web servers are detected on 64.8% of websites from France.

Statistics based on 112K+ analyzed websites. About this data

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

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

The most popular is Apache with an impressive share of 47%, followed by Nginx with 39.9% and LiteSpeed Web Server with 10.7%.

Apache 47%
Nginx 39.9%
LiteSpeed Web Server 10.7%
Microsoft IIS 2.2%
OpenResty 1.1%
Caddy 0.6%
Tomcat 0.2%
Google Servlet Engine 0.2%
Phusion Passenger 0.2%
Google Front End 0.2%
Pepyaka 0.1%
Gunicorn 0.1%
Google Host Server 0.08%
Zope 0.07%
Lighttpd 0.06%

🚀 Highlights

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

1. Apache ^(-1)
6. Caddy ^(-1)
9. Phusion Passenger ^(-4)
10. Google Front End ^(-2)
11. Pepyaka ^(-3)
12. Gunicorn ^(-3)
14. Zope ^(-6)
15. Lighttpd ^(-1)
17. Cowboy ^(-1)
19. Domino Web Server ^(-7)

✨ Best Web Servers

Below is a more detailed list of the top 25 of the 30 web servers used on sites from France, ranked by their market share.

Rank	Name	Market share
1	Apache Wilmington, Delaware, United States A cross-platform open-source web server that has been available since 1995. FreeOpen source	47%
2	Nginx Seattle, Washington, United States A lightweight, high-performance open-source HTTP server and reverse proxy. FreeOpen source$3,500+/year	39.9%
3	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	10.7%
4	Microsoft IIS Redmond, Washington, United States An extensible web server developed by Microsoft for Windows systems. Free$$$	2.2%
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	1.1%
6	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	0.6%
7	Tomcat Wilmington, Delaware, United States An open-source Java application server that implements Java Servlet and Jakarta Server Pages specifications. FreeOpen source	0.2%
8	Google Servlet Engine Mountain View, California, United States A fast, lightweight engine for running Java servlets, developed and used by Google.	0.2%
9	Phusion Passenger Apeldoorn, Netherlands A fast and robust web server and application server for Ruby, Python and Node.js. FreeOpen source$43.32+/month	0.2%
10	Google Front End Mountain View, California, United States A reverse-proxy frontend service provided by Google Cloud.	0.2%
11	Pepyaka Tel Aviv, Israel A web server supposedly based on Nginx and used by the Wix website building platform.	0.1%
12	Gunicorn Creil, France A Python WSGI HTTP server for UNIX, a pre-fork worker model ported from Ruby's Unicorn project. FreeOpen source	0.1%
13	Google Host Server Mountain View, California, United States A proprietary web server software used by Google for its web infrastructure.	0.08%
14	Zope Fishers, Indiana, United States An open-source web application server and web framework written in Python. FreeOpen source	0.07%
15	Lighttpd Germany An open-source web server optimized for high performance environments and low resource usage. FreeOpen source	0.06%
16	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	0.05%
17	Cowboy France A small, fast, and modern HTTP server for Erlang that supports WebSocket, HTTP/2, and REST. FreeOpen source	0.02%
18	Tengine Hangzhou, China An open-source web server based on Nginx and developed by the Chinese e-commerce company Alibaba. FreeOpen source	0.02%
19	Domino Web Server Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India Comes with Domino and allows organizations to serve pages stored in the file system or in a Domino database.	0.02%
20	Angie Moscow, Russia An efficient web server that was forked from Nginx by its former developers. FreeOpen source$$$	0.01%
21	Hiawatha Netherlands An open-source, cross-platform web server with built-in protection against SQL injections, XSS and CSRF attacks. FreeOpen source	0.01%
22	Jetty Brussels, Belgium A scalable and memory efficient Java web server and servlet container that supports HTTP/1,2,3 and WebSocket protocols. FreeOpen source	0.01%
23	HHVM Menlo Park, California, United States An open-source virtual machine designed to execute programs written in the Hack programming language, originally developed for Facebook and still used by Meta.	0.004%
24	OpenBSD httpd Edmonton, Alberta, Canada A lightweight web server included with the OpenBSD operating system. Free	0.004%
25	WebSphere Application Server Armonk, New York, United States A flexible, secure Java server runtime environment designed to accelerate the delivery of enterprise applications. Free$759+/month	0.003%

👉 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 112,653 websites from France.
We currently track the presence of 41 web servers across the web.
Of these, 30 were detected on websites from France.
Statistics were last calculated on April 11, 2026.
For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.