⚡ Web Servers in Hong Kong

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.

Hong Kong is an East Asian special administrative region of China with a population of around 7.5 million people.

According to our statistics, web servers are detected on 83% of websites from Hong Kong.

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

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

The most popular is Nginx, which dominates the market with an overwhelming 70.2% share.
It is followed by Apache with 18.5% and Microsoft IIS with 5.4%.

Nginx 70.2%
Apache 18.5%
Microsoft IIS 5.4%
LiteSpeed Web Server 3.1%
OpenResty 3%
Tengine 0.8%
Tomcat 0.3%
Caddy 0.2%
Pepyaka 0.1%
Google Front End 0.07%
Phusion Passenger 0.03%
Google Web Server 0.02%
Angie 0.02%
Kestrel 0.02%
WebSphere Application Server 0.02%

🚀 Highlights

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

3. Microsoft IIS ^(-1)
6. Tengine ^(-3)
9. Pepyaka ^(-5)
10. Google Front End ^(-3)
11. Phusion Passenger ^(-1)
12. Google Web Server ^(-9)
13. Angie ^(-4)
15. WebSphere Application Server ^(-9)
18. Static File Front End ^(-5)
19. Oracle WebLogic Server ^(-7)

✨ Best Web Servers

Below is a more detailed list of 21 web servers used on sites from Hong Kong, 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	70.2%
2	Apache Wilmington, Delaware, United States A cross-platform open-source web server that has been available since 1995. FreeOpen source	18.5%
3	Microsoft IIS Redmond, Washington, United States An extensible web server developed by Microsoft for Windows systems. Free$$$	5.4%
4	LiteSpeed Web Server Newtown Square, Pennsylvania, United States A high-performance, high-scalability web server that can be used as a drop-in replacement for Apache. FreeOpen source$10+/month	3.1%
5	OpenResty Millbrae, California, United States An Nginx distribution that bundles the LuaJIT interpreter to run Lua scripts directly inside the web server. FreeOpen source	3%
6	Tengine Hangzhou, China An open-source web server based on Nginx and developed by the Chinese e-commerce company Alibaba. FreeOpen source	0.8%
7	Tomcat Wilmington, Delaware, United States An open-source Java application server that implements Java Servlet and Jakarta Server Pages specifications. FreeOpen source	0.3%
8	Caddy Vienna, Austria An open-source multi-platform web server written in Go with built-in support for automatic HTTPS and modern web protocols. FreeOpen source	0.2%
9	Pepyaka Tel Aviv, Israel A web server supposedly based on Nginx and used by the Wix website building platform.	0.1%
10	Google Front End Mountain View, California, United States A reverse-proxy frontend service provided by Google Cloud.	0.07%
11	Phusion Passenger Apeldoorn, Netherlands A fast and robust web server and application server for Ruby, Python and Node.js. FreeOpen source$43.32+/month	0.03%
12	Google Web Server Mountain View, California, United States A proprietary web server software used by Google for its web infrastructure.	0.02%
13	Angie Moscow, Russia An efficient web server that was forked from Nginx by its former developers. FreeOpen source$$$	0.02%
14	Kestrel Redmond, Washington, United States An open-source, cross-platform web server for ASP.NET Core. FreeOpen source	0.02%
15	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	0.02%
16	Gunicorn Creil, France A Python WSGI HTTP server for UNIX, a pre-fork worker model ported from Ruby's Unicorn project. FreeOpen source	0.01%
17	Google Host Server Mountain View, California, United States A proprietary web server software used by Google for its web infrastructure.	0.01%
18	Static File Front End Mountain View, California, United States A proprietary web server software used by Google for its web infrastructure.	0.01%
19	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	0.007%
20	Google Servlet Engine Mountain View, California, United States A fast, lightweight engine for running Java servlets, developed and used by Google.	0.007%
21	Hiawatha Netherlands An open-source, cross-platform web server with built-in protection against SQL injections, XSS and CSRF attacks. FreeOpen source	0.007%

👉 See Also

🌎 Web Servers in other countries

Data is based on the analysis of 17,964 websites from Hong Kong.
Statistics were last calculated on March 21, 2026.
For details, see our methodology and disclaimer.