Subcategory answer

General-purpose HTTP servers

28,322,087

companies run at least one of the 41 technologies in it, 51.9% of 54,527,857 in the index. Landing 12 Sept 2026.

Standalone HTTP servers for hosting and proxying web content, used by operations and developers.

Share of the subcategory by month

Apache HTTP Server 39.1%Nginx 37.4%LiteSpeed 14.0%

Apache HTTP ServerNginxLiteSpeedIISOther

Share of companies running any technology in this subcategory, monthlyof 28,322,087 companies with any of themlanding 12 Sept 2026

Each month is drawn as 100%, so the bands are shares and not counts; a company running two of these technologies is counted in both, and everything past the fourth is folded into Other. The series starts January 2021 because the panel is anchored at 31 Dec 2020

The 345 numbers in this chart

Month	Apache HTTP Server	Nginx	LiteSpeed	IIS	Other
2021-01	38.3%	37.3%	12.3%	4.7%	7.3%
2021-02	38.3%	37.3%	12.3%	4.7%	7.3%
2021-03	38.3%	37.3%	12.3%	4.7%	7.3%
2021-04	38.3%	37.3%	12.3%	4.7%	7.3%
2021-05	38.3%	37.3%	12.3%	4.7%	7.3%
2021-06	38.3%	37.3%	12.3%	4.7%	7.3%
2021-07	38.3%	37.3%	12.3%	4.7%	7.3%
2021-08	38.3%	37.3%	12.3%	4.7%	7.3%
2021-09	38.3%	37.3%	12.3%	4.7%	7.3%
2021-10	38.3%	37.3%	12.3%	4.7%	7.3%
2021-11	38.3%	37.3%	12.3%	4.7%	7.3%
2021-12	38.3%	37.3%	12.3%	4.7%	7.3%
2022-01	38.3%	37.3%	12.3%	4.7%	7.3%
2022-02	38.3%	37.3%	12.3%	4.7%	7.3%
2022-03	38.3%	37.3%	12.3%	4.7%	7.3%
2022-04	38.3%	37.3%	12.3%	4.7%	7.3%
2022-05	38.3%	37.3%	12.3%	4.7%	7.3%
2022-06	38.3%	37.3%	12.3%	4.7%	7.3%
2022-07	38.3%	37.3%	12.3%	4.7%	7.3%
2022-08	38.3%	37.3%	12.3%	4.7%	7.3%
2022-09	38.3%	37.3%	12.3%	4.7%	7.3%
2022-10	38.4%	37.3%	12.3%	4.7%	7.3%
2022-11	38.4%	37.3%	12.3%	4.7%	7.3%
2022-12	38.4%	37.3%	12.3%	4.7%	7.3%
2023-01	38.4%	37.3%	12.3%	4.7%	7.3%
2023-02	38.4%	37.3%	12.3%	4.7%	7.3%
2023-03	38.4%	37.3%	12.3%	4.7%	7.3%
2023-04	38.4%	37.3%	12.3%	4.7%	7.3%
2023-05	38.4%	37.3%	12.3%	4.7%	7.3%
2023-06	38.4%	37.3%	12.3%	4.7%	7.3%
2023-07	38.4%	37.3%	12.3%	4.7%	7.3%
2023-08	38.4%	37.3%	12.3%	4.7%	7.3%
2023-09	38.4%	37.3%	12.3%	4.7%	7.3%
2023-10	38.4%	37.3%	12.3%	4.7%	7.3%
2023-11	37.6%	37.6%	12.7%	4.7%	7.4%
2023-12	37.6%	37.6%	12.7%	4.7%	7.4%
2024-01	37.6%	37.6%	12.7%	4.7%	7.4%
2024-02	37.6%	37.6%	12.7%	4.7%	7.4%
2024-03	37.6%	37.6%	12.7%	4.7%	7.4%
2024-04	37.6%	37.6%	12.7%	4.7%	7.4%
2024-05	37.6%	37.6%	12.7%	4.7%	7.4%
2024-06	37.6%	37.6%	12.7%	4.7%	7.4%
2024-07	37.6%	37.6%	12.7%	4.7%	7.4%
2024-08	37.6%	37.6%	12.7%	4.7%	7.4%
2024-09	37.6%	37.6%	12.7%	4.7%	7.4%
2024-10	37.7%	37.4%	12.8%	4.7%	7.3%
2024-11	37.7%	37.4%	12.8%	4.7%	7.3%
2024-12	37.7%	37.4%	12.8%	4.7%	7.3%
2025-01	37.7%	37.4%	12.8%	4.7%	7.3%
2025-02	37.7%	37.4%	12.8%	4.7%	7.3%
2025-03	37.7%	37.4%	12.8%	4.7%	7.3%
2025-04	37.7%	37.5%	12.8%	4.7%	7.4%
2025-05	37.6%	37.7%	13.0%	4.5%	7.3%
2025-06	37.5%	37.7%	13.0%	4.5%	7.3%
2025-07	37.5%	37.7%	13.0%	4.5%	7.3%
2025-08	37.4%	37.8%	13.1%	4.5%	7.2%
2025-09	37.4%	37.8%	13.1%	4.5%	7.2%
2025-10	37.4%	37.8%	13.1%	4.5%	7.2%
2025-11	37.4%	37.7%	13.2%	4.5%	7.3%
2025-12	37.4%	37.7%	13.2%	4.5%	7.3%
2026-01	38.4%	37.5%	13.6%	4.6%	5.9%
2026-02	39.0%	37.4%	13.9%	4.7%	5.0%
2026-03	39.1%	37.4%	14.0%	4.7%	4.8%
2026-04	39.1%	37.4%	14.0%	4.7%	4.8%
2026-05	39.1%	37.4%	14.0%	4.7%	4.8%
2026-06	39.1%	37.4%	14.0%	4.7%	4.8%
2026-07	39.1%	37.4%	14.0%	4.7%	4.8%
2026-08	39.1%	37.4%	14.0%	4.7%	4.8%
2026-09	39.1%	37.4%	14.0%	4.7%	4.8%

The technologies ranked in General-purpose HTTP servers

Companiesof 28,322,087 with any of themlanding 12 Sept 2026

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Technology

Vendor

Companies

Share

1

Nginx

NGINX (F5, Inc.)

11,728,164

41.4%

2

Apache HTTP Server

Apache Software Foundation

11,181,238

39.5%

3

LiteSpeed

LiteSpeed Technologies

5,054,818

17.8%

4

OpenResty

OpenResty Inc.

991,381

3.5%

5

IIS

Microsoft

968,864

3.4%

6

Caddy

Light Code Labs

139,185

0.49%

7

apache

The Apache Software Foundation

93,489

0.33%

8

lighttpd

lighttpd project

3,276

0.01%

9

Oracle iPlanet Web Server

Oracle

1,729

<0.01%

10

HCL Domino

HCLSoftware

1,411

<0.01%

11

Centminmod

Centmin Mod Project

1,059

<0.01%

12

Zenedge

Zenedge AB

947

<0.01%

13

Kangle

585

<0.01%

14

OpenBSD httpd

The OpenBSD Project

582

<0.01%

15

H2O

H2O Project

291

<0.01%

16

Oracle HTTP Server

Oracle

211

<0.01%

17

SimpleHTTP

none recorded

176

<0.01%

18

Hiawatha

Hiawatha Webserver Project

106

<0.01%

19

IBM HTTP Server

IBM

58

<0.01%

20

Mongrel

Zed A. Shaw

41

<0.01%

21

Cherokee

Cherokee Project

30

<0.01%

22

thttpd

ACME Laboratories

27

<0.01%

23

AOLserver

AOLserver Project

23

<0.01%

24

Yaws

YAWS project

23

<0.01%

24 of 41 technologiesa company running two of them is counted in both, so the shares do not sum to 100%under 20 companies no share is published

The 14 more technologies in General-purpose HTTP servers, ranked

Technology	Vendor	Companies
Artifactory Web Server	JFrog Ltd.	16
mini_httpd	ACME Laboratories	15
Ferron	Ferron	12
Monkey HTTP Server	Monkey Project	9
LlamaLink Cloud Server	LlamaLink	9
Xitami	iMatix	8
Microsoft Windows Server	Microsoft	2
Boa	Boa Webserver	2
HP Compact Server	HP	2
CactiveCloud	CactiveCloud	1
ELOG HTTP	Paul Scherrer Institut	1
G-WAN	G-WAN	0
BaseHTTP	Python Software Foundation	0
RX Web Server	Rokit Tax	0

3 of the 10 most detected technologies here sit under the publication gate on detector quality of 0.90, so they are listed rather than ranked: Tengine 120,133, Google Web Server 6,847, Angie 3,707.

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