⚡ Web Servers in New Zealand

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.

New Zealand is an Oceanian country with a population of over 5.1 million people.

According to our statistics, web servers are detected on 66.3% of websites from New Zealand.

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

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

The most popular is Nginx with an impressive share of 50%, followed by Apache with 29.1% and LiteSpeed Web Server with 11.2%.

Nginx 50%
Apache 29.1%
LiteSpeed Web Server 11.2%
Microsoft IIS 6.4%
Tomcat 3.8%
OpenResty 1.1%
Caddy 0.5%
Phusion Passenger 0.4%
Pepyaka 0.4%
H2O 0.3%
Lighttpd 0.2%
Kestrel 0.1%
Gunicorn 0.1%
WebSphere Application Server 0.09%
Google Host Server 0.08%

🚀 Highlights

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

5. Tomcat ^(-1)
8. Phusion Passenger ^(-4)
9. Pepyaka ^(-5)
10. H2O ^(-20)
11. Lighttpd ^(-5)
13. Gunicorn ^(-2)
14. WebSphere Application Server ^(-10)
19. Oracle WebLogic Server ^(-7)
20. Google Web Server ^(-1)

✨ Best Web Servers

Below is a more detailed list of 20 web servers used on sites from New Zealand, 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	50%
2	Apache Wilmington, Delaware, United States A cross-platform open-source web server that has been available since 1995. FreeOpen source	29.1%
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	11.2%
4	Microsoft IIS Redmond, Washington, United States An extensible web server developed by Microsoft for Windows systems. Free$$$	6.4%
5	Tomcat Wilmington, Delaware, United States An open-source Java application server that implements Java Servlet and Jakarta Server Pages specifications. FreeOpen source	3.8%
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	1.1%
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	0.5%
8	Phusion Passenger Apeldoorn, Netherlands A fast and robust web server and application server for Ruby, Python and Node.js. FreeOpen source$43.32+/month	0.4%
9	Pepyaka Tel Aviv, Israel A web server supposedly based on Nginx and used by the Wix website building platform.	0.4%
10	H2O Tokyo, Japan An optimized, open-source HTTP server that supports HTTP/1.x, HTTP/2, and HTTP/3. FreeOpen source	0.3%
11	Lighttpd Germany An open-source web server optimized for high performance environments and low resource usage. FreeOpen source	0.2%
12	Kestrel Redmond, Washington, United States An open-source, cross-platform web server for ASP.NET Core. FreeOpen source	0.1%
13	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%
14	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	0.09%
15	Google Host Server Mountain View, California, United States A proprietary web server software used by Google for its web infrastructure.	0.08%
16	Google Front End Mountain View, California, United States A reverse-proxy frontend service provided by Google Cloud.	0.08%
17	Google Servlet Engine Mountain View, California, United States A fast, lightweight engine for running Java servlets, developed and used by Google.	0.05%
18	Cowboy France A small, fast, and modern HTTP server for Erlang that supports Websocket, HTTP/2, and REST. FreeOpen source	0.03%
19	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	0.02%
20	Google Web Server Mountain View, California, United States A proprietary web server software used by Google for its web infrastructure.	0.01%

👉 See Also

🌎 Web Servers in other countries

Data is based on the analysis of 13,907 websites from New Zealand.
Statistics were last calculated on March 21, 2026.
For details, see our methodology and disclaimer.