⚡ Web Servers in the United Kingdom

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.

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (UK) is a Western European country with a population of over 67 million people.

According to our statistics, web servers are detected on 67.7% of websites from the United Kingdom.

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

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

The most popular is Nginx with an impressive share of 37.3%, followed by Apache with 31.5% and LiteSpeed Web Server with 22.3%.

Nginx 37.3%
Apache 31.5%
LiteSpeed Web Server 22.3%
Microsoft IIS 6.7%
Tomcat 1.5%
OpenResty 1.3%
Caddy 0.4%
Kestrel 0.2%
Pepyaka 0.2%
Google Servlet Engine 0.2%
Phusion Passenger 0.2%
Gunicorn 0.1%
Google Host Server 0.1%
Google Front End 0.07%
Lighttpd 0.05%

🚀 Highlights

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

5. Tomcat ^(-1)
8. Kestrel ^(-3)
9. Pepyaka ^(-5)
11. Phusion Passenger ^(-1)
12. Gunicorn ^(-3)
15. Lighttpd ^(-1)
16. Cowboy ^(-2)
17. Domino Web Server ^(-8)
18. Oracle WebLogic Server ^(-8)
22. Jetty ^(-6)

✨ Best Web Servers

Below is a more detailed list of the top 25 of the 35 web servers used on sites from the United Kingdom, 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	37.3%
2	Apache Wilmington, Delaware, United States A cross-platform open-source web server that has been available since 1995. FreeOpen source	31.5%
3	LiteSpeed Web Server Newtown Square, Pennsylvania, United States A high-performance, high-scalability web server that can be used as a drop-in replacement for Apache. FreeOpen source$10+/month	22.3%
4	Microsoft IIS Redmond, Washington, United States An extensible web server developed by Microsoft for Windows systems. Free$$$	6.7%
5	Tomcat Wilmington, Delaware, United States An open-source Java application server that implements Java Servlet and Jakarta Server Pages specifications. FreeOpen source	1.5%
6	OpenResty Millbrae, California, United States An Nginx distribution that bundles the LuaJIT interpreter to run Lua scripts directly inside the web server. FreeOpen source	1.3%
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	0.4%
8	Kestrel Redmond, Washington, United States An open-source, cross-platform web server for ASP.NET Core. FreeOpen source	0.2%
9	Pepyaka Tel Aviv, Israel A web server supposedly based on Nginx and used by the Wix website building platform.	0.2%
10	Google Servlet Engine Mountain View, California, United States A fast, lightweight engine for running Java servlets, developed and used by Google.	0.2%
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	0.2%
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.	0.1%
14	Google Front End Mountain View, California, United States A reverse-proxy frontend service provided by Google Cloud.	0.07%
15	Lighttpd Germany An open-source web server optimized for high performance environments and low resource usage. FreeOpen source	0.05%
16	Cowboy France A small, fast, and modern HTTP server for Erlang that supports Websocket, HTTP/2, and REST. FreeOpen source	0.03%
17	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%
18	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	0.01%
19	Tengine Hangzhou, China An open-source web server based on Nginx and developed by the Chinese e-commerce company Alibaba. FreeOpen source	0.01%
20	Oracle iPlanet Web Server Austin, Texas, United States A web server designed for medium and large business applications. Free	0.009%
21	Zope Fishers, Indiana, United States An open-source web application server written in Python. FreeOpen source	0.008%
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	0.008%
23	Hiawatha Netherlands An open-source, cross-platform web server with built-in protection against SQL injections, XSS and CSRF attacks. FreeOpen source	0.007%
24	Angie Moscow, Russia An efficient web server that was forked from Nginx by its former developers. FreeOpen source$$$	0.004%
25	GlassFish Brussels, Belgium A complete application server that implements the Jakarta EE specification. FreeOpen source	0.004%

👉 See Also

🌎 Web Servers in other countries

Data is based on the analysis of 157,370 websites from the United Kingdom.
Statistics were last calculated on March 21, 2026.
For details, see our methodology and disclaimer.