Yaws

Yaws (Yet another web server) is a high perfomance HTTP server written in Erlang.

Statistics based on 3.3M+ analyzed websites. About this data

📊 Rankings and Market Share

We have data on 5 websites that use the Yaws web server.

The highest rated site using Yaws is camcontacts.com.

#	Website	Rank	Country	Language
1	camcontacts.com	#37,925	United States	English
2	hyber.org		Netherlands	Swedish
3	fu-mathe-team.de		Germany	German
4	codimi.de		Germany	English
5	psb24-meisterallerklassen.de		Germany	English

Most of the sites that use Yaws:

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Most of the sites using Yaws are from Germany, the Netherlands, and the United States.

Most Yaws users speak English, German, or Swedish.

The Yaws web server is especially popular on .de, .com, and .org top-level domains.

The most popular version of Yaws is 1.90, used by 50% of sites where versions were detected.

These are some of the best Yaws alternatives.

Rank	Name
1	Nginx Seattle, Washington, United States A lightweight, high-performance open-source HTTP server and reverse proxy. FreeOpen source$3,500+/year
2	Apache Wilmington, Delaware, United States A cross-platform open-source web server that has been available since 1995. FreeOpen source
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
4	Microsoft IIS Redmond, Washington, United States An extensible web server developed by Microsoft for Windows systems. Free$$$
18	Cowboy France A small, fast, and modern HTTP server for Erlang that supports WebSocket, HTTP/2, and REST. FreeOpen source

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The majority of Yaws users are from Germany.

According to our data, Yaws is used on at least 5 sites, including hyber.org, fu-mathe-team.de, and codimi.de.

Alternatives and possible competitors to Yaws may include Cowboy, Nginx, and Apache.

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 3,375,483 websites.
Statistics were last calculated on May 5, 2026.
For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.