⚡ Web Servers in Sweden

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.

Sweden is a Northern European country with a population of over 10.5 million people.

According to our statistics, web servers are detected on 75% of websites from Sweden.

Statistics based on 30K+ analyzed websites. About this data

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

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

The most popular is Nginx with an impressive share of 34.6%, followed by Apache with 34% and LiteSpeed Web Server with 17.4%.

Nginx 34.6%
Apache 34%
LiteSpeed Web Server 17.4%
Microsoft IIS 9.5%
OpenResty 3.4%
Caddy 1.7%
Tomcat 0.9%
Google Front End 0.6%
Kestrel 0.3%
Phusion Passenger 0.1%
Pepyaka 0.09%
Google Servlet Engine 0.07%
Gunicorn 0.07%
Lighttpd 0.06%
Cowboy 0.04%

🚀 Highlights

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

6. Caddy ^(-1)
8. Google Front End ^(-4)
9. Kestrel ^(-2)
10. Phusion Passenger ^(-3)
11. Pepyaka ^(-3)
13. Gunicorn ^(-2)
14. Lighttpd ^(-2)
15. Cowboy ^(-3)
16. Jetty ^(-12)
17. Hiawatha ^(-10)

✨ Best Web Servers

Below is a more detailed list of the top 25 of the 28 web servers used on sites from Sweden, 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	34.6%
2	Apache Wilmington, Delaware, United States A cross-platform open-source web server that has been available since 1995. FreeOpen source	34%
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	17.4%
4	Microsoft IIS Redmond, Washington, United States An extensible web server developed by Microsoft for Windows systems. Free$$$	9.5%
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	3.4%
6	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	1.7%
7	Tomcat Wilmington, Delaware, United States An open-source Java application server that implements Java Servlet and Jakarta Server Pages specifications. FreeOpen source	0.9%
8	Google Front End Mountain View, California, United States A reverse-proxy frontend service provided by Google Cloud.	0.6%
9	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%
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	0.1%
11	Pepyaka Tel Aviv, Israel A web server supposedly based on Nginx and used by the Wix website building platform.	0.09%
12	Google Servlet Engine Mountain View, California, United States A fast, lightweight engine for running Java servlets, developed and used by Google.	0.07%
13	Gunicorn Creil, France A Python WSGI HTTP server for UNIX, a pre-fork worker model ported from Ruby's Unicorn project. FreeOpen source	0.07%
14	Lighttpd Germany An open-source web server optimized for high performance environments and low resource usage. FreeOpen source	0.06%
15	Cowboy France A small, fast, and modern HTTP server for Erlang that supports WebSocket, HTTP/2, and REST. FreeOpen source	0.04%
16	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	0.03%
17	Hiawatha Netherlands An open-source, cross-platform web server with built-in protection against SQL injections, XSS and CSRF attacks. FreeOpen source	0.02%
18	Google Host Server Mountain View, California, United States A proprietary web server software used by Google for its web infrastructure.	0.02%
19	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	0.01%
20	Resin San Diego, California, United States A Java EE-certified application server. Free$849+/year	0.01%
21	Roxen Linköping, Sweden An open-source web server developed by the Swedish company Roxen AB.	0.01%
22	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.	0.01%
23	Static File Front End Mountain View, California, United States A proprietary web server software used by Google for its web infrastructure.	0.009%
24	Angie Moscow, Russia An efficient web server that was forked from Nginx by its former developers. FreeOpen source$$$	0.004%
25	OpenBSD httpd Edmonton, Alberta, Canada A lightweight web server included with the OpenBSD operating system. Free	0.004%

👉 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 30,835 websites from Sweden.
We currently track the presence of 41 web servers across the web.
Of these, 28 were detected on websites from Sweden.
Statistics were last calculated on May 5, 2026.
For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.