⚡ 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 66.4% of websites from the United Kingdom.

Statistics based on 183K+ analyzed websites. About this data

⭐ 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 40.6%, followed by Apache with 28.5% and LiteSpeed Web Server with 22.1%.

Nginx 40.6%
Apache 28.5%
LiteSpeed Web Server 22.1%
Microsoft IIS 5.9%
Tomcat 2.1%
OpenResty 1.4%
Caddy 0.5%
Kestrel 0.3%
Google Servlet Engine 0.2%
Google Host Server 0.2%
Gunicorn 0.2%
Phusion Passenger 0.1%
Lighttpd 0.04%
Cowboy 0.02%
Domino Web Server 0.02%

🚀 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)
11. Gunicorn ^(-3)
13. Lighttpd ^(-4)
15. Domino Web Server ^(-8)
17. Oracle WebLogic Server ^(-5)
18. Jetty ^(-7)
21. OpenBSD httpd ^(-6)
24. WEBrick ^(-10)

✨ Best Web Servers

Below is a more detailed list of the top 25 of the 34 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 designed for handling large volumes of concurrent connections with low memory usage. FreeOpen source$3,500+/year	40.6%
2	Apache Wilmington, Delaware, United States A cross-platform open-source web server that has been available since 1995. FreeOpen source	28.5%
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	22.1%
4	Microsoft IIS Redmond, Washington, United States An extensible web server developed by Microsoft for Windows systems. Free$$$	5.9%
5	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	2.1%
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	1.4%
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	0.5%
8	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	0.3%
9	Google Servlet Engine Mountain View, California, United States A fast, lightweight engine for running Java servlets, developed and used by Google.	0.2%
10	Google Host Server Mountain View, California, United States A proprietary web server software used by Google for its web infrastructure.	0.2%
11	Gunicorn Creil, France A Python WSGI HTTP server for UNIX, a pre-fork worker model ported from Ruby's Unicorn project. FreeOpen source	0.2%
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	0.1%
13	Lighttpd Germany An open-source web server optimized for high performance environments and low resource usage. FreeOpen source	0.04%
14	Cowboy France A small, fast, and modern HTTP server for Erlang that supports WebSocket, HTTP/2, and REST. FreeOpen source	0.02%
15	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%
16	Zope Fishers, Indiana, United States An open-source web application server and web framework written in Python. FreeOpen source	0.01%
17	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	0.01%
18	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%
19	Tengine Hangzhou, China An open-source web server based on Nginx and developed by the Chinese e-commerce company Alibaba. FreeOpen source	0.007%
20	Angie Moscow, Russia An efficient web server that was forked from Nginx by its former developers. FreeOpen source$$$	0.007%
21	OpenBSD httpd Edmonton, Alberta, Canada A lightweight web server included with the OpenBSD operating system. Free	0.004%
22	Google Web Server Mountain View, California, United States A proprietary web server software used by Google for its web infrastructure.	0.003%
23	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%
24	WEBrick An HTTP server toolkit that can be configured as an HTTPS server, a proxy server, and a virtual host server. FreeOpen source	0.002%
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	0.002%

👉 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 183,840 websites from the United Kingdom.
We currently track the presence of 40 web servers across the web.
Of these, 34 were detected on websites from the United Kingdom.
Statistics were last calculated on September 18, 2026.
For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.