⚡ Web Servers in Tanzania

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.

Tanzania is an East African country with a population of over 67 million people.

According to our statistics, web servers are detected on 85.4% of websites from Tanzania.

Statistics based on 740 analyzed websites. About this data

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

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

The most popular is Apache, which dominates the market with a substantial 62.8% share.
It is followed by LiteSpeed Web Server with 21.8% and Nginx with 17.6%.

Apache 62.8%
LiteSpeed Web Server 21.8%
Nginx 17.6%
Microsoft IIS 1.9%
Google Web Server 0.5%
Google Servlet Engine 0.5%
Google Host Server 0.5%
Phusion Passenger 0.3%
Caddy 0.3%
Google Front End 0.2%
OpenResty 0.2%

🚀 Highlights

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

1. Apache ^(-1)
2. LiteSpeed Web Server ^(-1)
5. Google Web Server ^(-16)
6. Google Servlet Engine ^(-2)
7. Google Host Server ^(-3)
8. Phusion Passenger ^(-4)
10. Google Front End ^(-3)

✨ Best Web Servers

Below is a more detailed list of 11 web servers used on sites from Tanzania, 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	62.8%
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	21.8%
3	Nginx Seattle, Washington, United States A lightweight, high-performance open-source HTTP server and reverse proxy. FreeOpen source$3,500+/year	17.6%
4	Microsoft IIS Redmond, Washington, United States An extensible web server developed by Microsoft for Windows systems. Free$$$	1.9%
5	Google Web Server Mountain View, California, United States A proprietary web server software used by Google for its web infrastructure.	0.5%
6	Google Servlet Engine Mountain View, California, United States A fast, lightweight engine for running Java servlets, developed and used by Google.	0.5%
7	Google Host Server Mountain View, California, United States A proprietary web server software used by Google for its web infrastructure.	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	0.3%
9	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%
10	Google Front End Mountain View, California, United States A reverse-proxy frontend service provided by Google Cloud.	0.2%
11	OpenResty Millbrae, California, United States An Nginx distribution that bundles the LuaJIT interpreter to run Lua scripts directly inside the web server. FreeOpen source	0.2%

👉 See Also

🌎 Web Servers in other countries
- Angola
- Egypt
- Ghana

🗃️ 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 740 websites from Tanzania.
We currently track the presence of 41 web servers across the web.
Of these, 11 were detected on websites from Tanzania.
Statistics were last calculated on April 5, 2026.
For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.