⚡ Web Servers in Iceland

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.

Iceland is a Northern European island country with a population of over 380 thousand people.

According to our statistics, web servers are detected on 67.2% of websites from Iceland.

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

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

The most popular is Nginx with an impressive share of 35.1%, followed by LiteSpeed Web Server with 35% and Apache with 24.7%.

🚀 Highlights

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

✨ Best Web Servers

Below is a more detailed list of 19 web servers used on sites from Iceland, ranked by their market share.

RankNameMarket share
1
Nginx
Seattle, Washington, United States

A lightweight, high-performance open-source HTTP server and reverse proxy.

FreeOpen source$3,500+/year
2
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
Apache
Wilmington, Delaware, United States

A cross-platform open-source web server that has been available since 1995.

FreeOpen source
4
Microsoft IIS
Redmond, Washington, United States

An extensible web server developed by Microsoft for Windows systems.

Free$$$
5
Tomcat
Wilmington, Delaware, United States

An open-source Java application server that implements Java Servlet and Jakarta Server Pages specifications.

FreeOpen source
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
7
Kestrel
Redmond, Washington, United States

An open-source, cross-platform web server for ASP.NET Core.

FreeOpen source
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
9
Phusion Passenger
Apeldoorn, Netherlands

A fast and robust web server and application server for Ruby, Python and Node.js.

FreeOpen source$43.32+/month
10
Cowboy
France

A small, fast, and modern HTTP server for Erlang that supports Websocket, HTTP/2, and REST.

FreeOpen source
11
Google Web Server
Mountain View, California, United States

A proprietary web server software used by Google for its web infrastructure.
12
Gunicorn
Creil, France

A Python WSGI HTTP server for UNIX, a pre-fork worker model ported from Ruby's Unicorn project.

FreeOpen source
13
Google Front End
Mountain View, California, United States

A reverse-proxy frontend service provided by Google Cloud.
14
Lighttpd
Germany

An open-source web server optimized for high performance environments and low resource usage.

FreeOpen source
15
Google Servlet Engine
Mountain View, California, United States

A fast, lightweight engine for running Java servlets, developed and used by Google.
16
Pepyaka
Tel Aviv, Israel

A web server supposedly based on Nginx and used by the Wix website building platform.
17
Google Host Server
Mountain View, California, United States

A proprietary web server software used by Google for its web infrastructure.
18
OpenBSD httpd
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

A lightweight web server included with the OpenBSD operating system.

Free
19
Hypercorn
London, United Kingdom

An ASGI and WSGI web server based on the sans-io hyper, h11, h2, and wsproto libraries and inspired by Gunicorn.

FreeOpen source
Data is based on the analysis of 2,774 websites from Iceland.
Statistics were last calculated on .
For details, see our methodology and disclaimer.