⚡ Web Servers in Ghana

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.

Ghana is a West African country with a population of over 34 million people.

According to our statistics, web servers are detected on 78.1% of websites from Ghana.

Statistics based on 686 analyzed websites. About this data

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

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

The most popular is Apache with an impressive share of 42.5%, followed by LiteSpeed Web Server with 29.9% and Nginx with 27.6%.

Apache 42.5%
LiteSpeed Web Server 29.9%
Nginx 27.6%
Microsoft IIS 4.1%
OpenResty 0.7%
Phusion Passenger 0.6%
Google Web Server 0.4%
Oracle iPlanet Web Server 0.4%
Google Front End 0.2%
Gunicorn 0.2%
Tomcat 0.2%
Pepyaka 0.2%

🚀 Highlights

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

1. Apache ^(-1)
2. LiteSpeed Web Server ^(-1)
6. Phusion Passenger ^(-6)
7. Google Web Server ^(-14)
8. Oracle iPlanet Web Server ^(-11)
9. Google Front End ^(-4)
10. Gunicorn ^(-5)
12. Pepyaka ^(-2)

✨ Best Web Servers

Below is a more detailed list of 12 web servers used on sites from Ghana, 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	42.5%
2	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	29.9%
3	Nginx Seattle, Washington, United States A lightweight, high-performance open-source HTTP server and reverse proxy. FreeOpen source$3,500+/year	27.6%
4	Microsoft IIS Redmond, Washington, United States An extensible web server developed by Microsoft for Windows systems. Free$$$	4.1%
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	0.7%
6	Phusion Passenger Apeldoorn, Netherlands A fast and robust web server and application server for Ruby, Python and Node.js. FreeOpen source$43.32+/month	0.6%
7	Google Web Server Mountain View, California, United States A proprietary web server software used by Google for its web infrastructure.	0.4%
8	Oracle iPlanet Web Server Austin, Texas, United States A web server designed for medium and large business applications. Free	0.4%
9	Google Front End Mountain View, California, United States A reverse-proxy frontend service provided by Google Cloud.	0.2%
10	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%
11	Tomcat Wilmington, Delaware, United States An open-source Java application server that implements Java Servlet and Jakarta Server Pages specifications. FreeOpen source	0.2%
12	Pepyaka Tel Aviv, Israel A web server supposedly based on Nginx and used by the Wix website building platform.	0.2%

👉 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 686 websites from Ghana.
We currently track the presence of 41 web servers across the web.
Of these, 12 were detected on websites from Ghana.
Statistics were last calculated on April 5, 2026.
For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.