⚡ Web Servers in the United States

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.

The United States of America (USA) is a North American country with a population of over 341 million people.

According to our statistics, web servers are detected on 70.3% of websites from the United States.

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

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

The most popular is Apache with an impressive share of 40.9%, followed by Nginx with 32.6% and LiteSpeed Web Server with 14.9%.

Apache 40.9%
Nginx 32.6%
LiteSpeed Web Server 14.9%
Microsoft IIS 6.8%
Tomcat 4.9%
OpenResty 2%
Google Servlet Engine 0.5%
Caddy 0.5%
Kestrel 0.4%
Pepyaka 0.2%
Phusion Passenger 0.2%
Google Front End 0.1%
Oracle iPlanet Web Server 0.1%
Tengine 0.1%
Gunicorn 0.06%

🚀 Highlights

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

1. Apache ^(-1)
5. Tomcat ^(-1)
7. Google Servlet Engine ^(-1)
9. Kestrel ^(-2)
10. Pepyaka ^(-4)
11. Phusion Passenger ^(-1)
12. Google Front End ^(-1)
13. Oracle iPlanet Web Server ^(-6)
17. Cowboy ^(-1)
18. Static File Front End ^(-5)

✨ Best Web Servers

Below is a more detailed list of the top 25 of the 39 web servers used on sites from the United States, 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	40.9%
2	Nginx Seattle, Washington, United States A lightweight, high-performance open-source HTTP server and reverse proxy. FreeOpen source$3,500+/year	32.6%
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	14.9%
4	Microsoft IIS Redmond, Washington, United States An extensible web server developed by Microsoft for Windows systems. Free$$$	6.8%
5	Tomcat Wilmington, Delaware, United States An open-source Java application server that implements Java Servlet and Jakarta Server Pages specifications. FreeOpen source	4.9%
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	2%
7	Google Servlet Engine Mountain View, California, United States A fast, lightweight engine for running Java servlets, developed and used by Google.	0.5%
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	0.5%
9	Kestrel Redmond, Washington, United States An open-source, cross-platform web server for ASP.NET Core. FreeOpen source	0.4%
10	Pepyaka Tel Aviv, Israel A web server supposedly based on Nginx and used by the Wix website building platform.	0.2%
11	Phusion Passenger Apeldoorn, Netherlands A fast and robust web server and application server for Ruby, Python and Node.js. FreeOpen source$43.32+/month	0.2%
12	Google Front End Mountain View, California, United States A reverse-proxy frontend service provided by Google Cloud.	0.1%
13	Oracle iPlanet Web Server Austin, Texas, United States A web server designed for medium and large business applications. Free	0.1%
14	Tengine Hangzhou, China An open-source web server based on Nginx and developed by the Chinese e-commerce company Alibaba. FreeOpen source	0.1%
15	Gunicorn Creil, France A Python WSGI HTTP server for UNIX, a pre-fork worker model ported from Ruby's Unicorn project. FreeOpen source	0.06%
16	Google Host Server Mountain View, California, United States A proprietary web server software used by Google for its web infrastructure.	0.04%
17	Cowboy France A small, fast, and modern HTTP server for Erlang that supports Websocket, HTTP/2, and REST. FreeOpen source	0.04%
18	Static File Front End Mountain View, California, United States A proprietary web server software used by Google for its web infrastructure.	0.04%
19	Angie Moscow, Russia An efficient web server that was forked from Nginx by its former developers. FreeOpen source$$$	0.03%
20	Google Web Server Mountain View, California, United States A proprietary web server software used by Google for its web infrastructure.	0.03%
21	Lighttpd Germany An open-source web server optimized for high performance environments and low resource usage. FreeOpen source	0.02%
22	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	0.02%
23	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%
24	Hiawatha Netherlands An open-source, cross-platform web server with built-in protection against SQL injections, XSS and CSRF attacks. FreeOpen source	0.01%
25	Resin San Diego, California, United States A Java EE-certified application server. Free$849+/year	0.01%

👉 See Also

🌎 Web Servers in other countries

Data is based on the analysis of 545,779 websites from the United States.
Statistics were last calculated on March 21, 2026.
For details, see our methodology and disclaimer.