⚡ Web Servers in India

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.

India is a South Asian country with a population of over 1.4 billion people.

According to our statistics, web servers are detected on 77.1% of websites from India.

Statistics based on 68K+ analyzed websites. About this data

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

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

The most popular is Apache with an impressive share of 33.7%, followed by LiteSpeed Web Server with 29.6% and Nginx with 28.2%.

Apache 33.7%
LiteSpeed Web Server 29.6%
Nginx 28.2%
Microsoft IIS 8.1%
OpenResty 1.9%
Google Servlet Engine 0.7%
Google Host Server 0.5%
Caddy 0.3%
Google Front End 0.2%
Pepyaka 0.2%
Tomcat 0.2%
Phusion Passenger 0.1%
Kestrel 0.1%
Lighttpd 0.02%
Gunicorn 0.02%

🚀 Highlights

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

1. Apache ^(-1)
2. LiteSpeed Web Server ^(-1)
6. Google Servlet Engine ^(-2)
7. Google Host Server ^(-3)
9. Google Front End ^(-3)
10. Pepyaka ^(-4)
12. Phusion Passenger ^(-1)
14. Lighttpd ^(-2)
16. Hiawatha ^(-11)
17. Oracle HTTP Server ^(-19)

✨ Best Web Servers

Below is a more detailed list of the top 25 of the 27 web servers used on sites from India, 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	33.7%
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	29.6%
3	Nginx Seattle, Washington, United States A lightweight, high-performance open-source HTTP server and reverse proxy. FreeOpen source$3,500+/year	28.2%
4	Microsoft IIS Redmond, Washington, United States An extensible web server developed by Microsoft for Windows systems. Free$$$	8.1%
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	1.9%
6	Google Servlet Engine Mountain View, California, United States A fast, lightweight engine for running Java servlets, developed and used by Google.	0.7%
7	Google Host Server Mountain View, California, United States A proprietary web server software used by Google for its web infrastructure.	0.5%
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	0.3%
9	Google Front End Mountain View, California, United States A reverse-proxy frontend service provided by Google Cloud.	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	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	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%
13	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	0.1%
14	Lighttpd Germany An open-source web server optimized for high performance environments and low resource usage. FreeOpen source	0.02%
15	Gunicorn Creil, France A Python WSGI HTTP server for UNIX, a pre-fork worker model ported from Ruby's Unicorn project. FreeOpen source	0.02%
16	Hiawatha Netherlands An open-source, cross-platform web server with built-in protection against SQL injections, XSS and CSRF attacks. FreeOpen source	0.009%
17	Oracle HTTP Server Austin, Texas, United States A web server component for Oracle Fusion Middleware, based on the open-source Apache HTTP Server.	0.008%
18	Tengine Hangzhou, China An open-source web server based on Nginx and developed by the Chinese e-commerce company Alibaba. FreeOpen source	0.006%
19	Tornado A scalable, non-blocking web server and web application framework written in Python.	0.004%
20	Resin San Diego, California, United States A Java EE-certified application server. Free$849+/year	0.004%
21	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	0.004%
22	Google Web Server Mountain View, California, United States A proprietary web server software used by Google for its web infrastructure.	0.002%
23	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.	0.002%
24	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	0.002%
25	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	0.002%

👉 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 68,559 websites from India.
We currently track the presence of 41 web servers across the web.
Of these, 27 were detected on websites from India.
Statistics were last calculated on April 11, 2026.
For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.