⚡ 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 76% of websites from Ghana.

Statistics based on 839 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 30.4% and Nginx with 28.1%.

Apache 42.5%
LiteSpeed Web Server 30.4%
Nginx 28.1%
Microsoft IIS 3.4%
Phusion Passenger 1.1%
Tomcat 0.5%
OpenResty 0.3%
Oracle iPlanet Web Server 0.3%
Google Web Server 0.2%
Kestrel 0.2%
Gunicorn 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)
5. Phusion Passenger ^(-7)
8. Oracle iPlanet Web Server ^(-11)
9. Google Web Server ^(-9)
11. Gunicorn ^(-3)

✨ Best Web Servers

Below is a more detailed list of 11 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	30.4%
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	28.1%
4	Microsoft IIS Redmond, Washington, United States An extensible web server developed by Microsoft for Windows systems. Free$$$	3.4%
5	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	1.1%
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	0.5%
7	OpenResty Millbrae, California, United States An Nginx distribution that bundles the LuaJIT interpreter to run Lua scripts directly inside the web server. FreeOpen source	0.3%
8	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	0.3%
9	Google Web Server Mountain View, California, United States A proprietary web server software used by Google for its web infrastructure.	0.2%
10	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	0.2%
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%

👉 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 839 websites from Ghana.
We currently track the presence of 40 web servers across the web.
Of these, 11 were detected on websites from Ghana.
Statistics were last calculated on September 15, 2026.
For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.