⚡ 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 71.6% of websites from Ireland.

Statistics based on 13K+ analyzed websites. About this data

⭐ 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 39.5%, followed by Apache with 38% and LiteSpeed Web Server with 12.3%.

Nginx 39.5%
Apache 38%
LiteSpeed Web Server 12.3%
Microsoft IIS 8.2%
Tomcat 1.8%
OpenResty 0.9%
Caddy 0.4%
Kestrel 0.3%
Static File Front End 0.2%
Phusion Passenger 0.2%
Pepyaka 0.2%
Gunicorn 0.1%
Google Web Server 0.1%
Lighttpd 0.08%
Google Front End 0.06%

🚀 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. Phusion Passenger ^(-3)
11. Pepyaka ^(-3)
12. Gunicorn ^(-3)
13. Google Web Server ^(-8)
14. Lighttpd ^(-2)
16. Domino Web Server ^(-10)
23. Jetty ^(-5)

✨ Best Web Servers

Below is a more detailed list of 23 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	39.5%
2	Apache Wilmington, Delaware, United States A cross-platform open-source web server that has been available since 1995. FreeOpen source	38%
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	12.3%
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 that can serve HTTP requests on Windows, Linux, and macOS. 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	Phusion Passenger Apeldoorn, Netherlands A fast and robust web server and application server for Ruby, Python and Node.js. FreeOpen source$43.32+/month	0.2%
11	Pepyaka Tel Aviv, Israel A web server supposedly based on Nginx and used by the Wix website building platform.	0.2%
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	0.08%
15	Google Front End Mountain View, California, United States A reverse-proxy frontend service provided by Google Cloud.	0.06%
16	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.	0.06%
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	0.03%
20	Oracle iPlanet Web Server Austin, Texas, United States A web server designed for medium and large business applications. Free	0.02%
21	Zope Fishers, Indiana, United States An open-source web application server and web framework written in Python. FreeOpen source	0.01%
22	Tengine Hangzhou, China An open-source web server based on Nginx and developed by the Chinese e-commerce company Alibaba. FreeOpen source	0.01%
23	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	0.01%

👉 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 13,844 websites from Ireland.
We currently track the presence of 41 web servers across the web.
Of these, 23 were detected on websites from Ireland.
Statistics were last calculated on May 4, 2026.
For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.