⚡ Web Servers in Ireland

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.

Ireland is a Western European country with a population of over 5.1 million people.

According to our statistics, web servers are detected on 71.1% of websites from Ireland.

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

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

The most popular is Nginx with an impressive share of 39%, followed by Apache with 37.7% and LiteSpeed Web Server with 13%.

Nginx 39%
Apache 37.7%
LiteSpeed Web Server 13%
Microsoft IIS 8.2%
Tomcat 1.8%
OpenResty 0.9%
Caddy 0.4%
Kestrel 0.3%
Static File Front End 0.2%
Pepyaka 0.2%
Phusion Passenger 0.1%
Gunicorn 0.1%
Google Web Server 0.1%
Lighttpd 0.07%
Domino Web Server 0.07%

🚀 Highlights

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

5. Tomcat ^(-1)
8. Kestrel ^(-3)
9. Static File Front End ^(-14)
10. Pepyaka ^(-4)
11. Phusion Passenger ^(-1)
12. Gunicorn ^(-3)
13. Google Web Server ^(-8)
14. Lighttpd ^(-2)
15. Domino Web Server ^(-10)

✨ Best Web Servers

Below is a more detailed list of 21 web servers used on sites from Ireland, 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	39%
2	Apache Wilmington, Delaware, United States A cross-platform open-source web server that has been available since 1995. FreeOpen source	37.7%
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	13%
4	Microsoft IIS Redmond, Washington, United States An extensible web server developed by Microsoft for Windows systems. Free$$$	8.2%
5	Tomcat Wilmington, Delaware, United States An open-source Java application server that implements Java Servlet and Jakarta Server Pages specifications. FreeOpen source	1.8%
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	0.9%
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	0.3%
9	Static File Front End Mountain View, California, United States A proprietary web server software used by Google for its web infrastructure.	0.2%
10	Pepyaka Tel Aviv, Israel A web server supposedly based on Nginx and used by the Wix website building platform.	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	0.1%
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 Web Server Mountain View, California, United States A proprietary web server software used by Google for its web infrastructure.	0.1%
14	Lighttpd Germany An open-source web server optimized for high performance environments and low resource usage. FreeOpen source	0.07%
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.	0.07%
16	Google Front End Mountain View, California, United States A reverse-proxy frontend service provided by Google Cloud.	0.07%
17	Google Servlet Engine Mountain View, California, United States A fast, lightweight engine for running Java servlets, developed and used by Google.	0.04%
18	Google Host Server Mountain View, California, United States A proprietary web server software used by Google for its web infrastructure.	0.03%
19	Cowboy France A small, fast, and modern HTTP server for Erlang that supports Websocket, HTTP/2, and REST. FreeOpen source	0.02%
20	Tengine Hangzhou, China An open-source web server based on Nginx and developed by the Chinese e-commerce company Alibaba. FreeOpen source	0.01%
21	Zope Fishers, Indiana, United States An open-source web application server written in Python. FreeOpen source	0.01%

👉 See Also

🌎 Web Servers in other countries

Data is based on the analysis of 12,860 websites from Ireland.
Statistics were last calculated on March 21, 2026.
For details, see our methodology and disclaimer.