⚡ Web Servers in Japan

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.

Japan is an East Asian country with a population of around 125 million people.

According to our statistics, web servers are detected on 91.2% of websites from Japan.

Statistics based on 159K+ analyzed websites. About this data

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

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

The most popular is Nginx with a substantial share of 61.6%, followed by Apache with 33.9% and LiteSpeed Web Server with 3.6%.

Nginx 61.6%
Apache 33.9%
LiteSpeed Web Server 3.6%
Microsoft IIS 0.9%
OpenResty 0.6%
Google Front End 0.2%
Pepyaka 0.09%
Caddy 0.09%
Phusion Passenger 0.09%
Tomcat 0.06%
Google Host Server 0.04%
Google Servlet Engine 0.04%
Tengine 0.02%
Cowboy 0.02%
Gunicorn 0.01%

🚀 Highlights

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

6. Google Front End ^(-6)
7. Pepyaka ^(-7)
9. Phusion Passenger ^(-4)
14. Cowboy ^(-4)
16. H2O ^(-14)
18. Zope ^(-2)
19. Hiawatha ^(-8)
20. Resin ^(-2)
21. OpenBSD httpd ^(-8)

✨ Best Web Servers

Below is a more detailed list of the top 25 of the 32 web servers used on sites from Japan, 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	61.6%
2	Apache Wilmington, Delaware, United States A cross-platform open-source web server that has been available since 1995. FreeOpen source	33.9%
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	3.6%
4	Microsoft IIS Redmond, Washington, United States An extensible web server developed by Microsoft for Windows systems. Free$$$	0.9%
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	0.6%
6	Google Front End Mountain View, California, United States A reverse-proxy frontend service provided by Google Cloud.	0.2%
7	Pepyaka Tel Aviv, Israel A web server supposedly based on Nginx and used by the Wix website building platform.	0.09%
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	0.09%
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	0.09%
10	Tomcat Wilmington, Delaware, United States An open-source Java application server that implements Java Servlet and Jakarta Server Pages specifications. FreeOpen source	0.06%
11	Google Host Server Mountain View, California, United States A proprietary web server software used by Google for its web infrastructure.	0.04%
12	Google Servlet Engine Mountain View, California, United States A fast, lightweight engine for running Java servlets, developed and used by Google.	0.04%
13	Tengine Hangzhou, China An open-source web server based on Nginx and developed by the Chinese e-commerce company Alibaba. FreeOpen source	0.02%
14	Cowboy France A small, fast, and modern HTTP server for Erlang that supports WebSocket, HTTP/2, and REST. 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	0.01%
16	H2O Tokyo, Japan An optimized, open-source HTTP server that supports HTTP/1.x, HTTP/2, and HTTP/3. FreeOpen source	0.01%
17	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	0.01%
18	Zope Fishers, Indiana, United States An open-source web application server and web framework written in Python. FreeOpen source	0.004%
19	Hiawatha Netherlands An open-source, cross-platform web server with built-in protection against SQL injections, XSS and CSRF attacks. FreeOpen source	0.004%
20	Resin San Diego, California, United States A Java EE-certified application server. Free$849+/year	0.003%
21	OpenBSD httpd Edmonton, Alberta, Canada A lightweight web server included with the OpenBSD operating system. Free	0.003%
22	Lighttpd Germany An open-source web server optimized for high performance environments and low resource usage. FreeOpen source	0.003%
23	Static File Front End Mountain View, California, United States A proprietary web server software used by Google for its web infrastructure.	0.003%
24	Angie Moscow, Russia An efficient web server that was forked from Nginx by its former developers. 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 159,802 websites from Japan.
We currently track the presence of 41 web servers across the web.
Of these, 32 were detected on websites from Japan.
Statistics were last calculated on April 11, 2026.
For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.