Technology answer

lighttpd

3,276

companies run it, <0.01% of 54,527,857 in the index. Landing 12 Sept 2026.

Hosts: 31,726 live hosts run it, of 191,809,695 hosts in the index, 0.02%. A host is a website, not a company.

Companies by month

Companies, monthly, on the fixed panel of sites crawled since 2020of 54,527,857 in the indexlanding 12 Sept 2026

3,276 at Sept 26; 3,314 twelve months earlier, -38, -1.1% on the fixed panel; the series starts January 2021 because the panel is anchored at 31 Dec 2020

The 69 numbers in this chart

Month	Companies	Observed on the panel
2021-01	2,008	575
2021-02	2,008	575
2021-03	2,008	575
2021-04	2,008	575
2021-05	2,008	575
2021-06	2,008	575
2021-07	2,008	575
2021-08	2,012	576
2021-09	2,013	576
2021-10	2,014	576
2021-11	2,015	577
2021-12	2,016	577
2022-01	2,016	577
2022-02	2,017	577
2022-03	2,018	578
2022-04	2,019	578
2022-05	2,020	578
2022-06	2,020	578
2022-07	2,021	578
2022-08	2,022	579
2022-09	2,020	578
2022-10	2,020	578
2022-11	2,020	578
2022-12	2,020	578
2023-01	2,020	578
2023-02	2,020	578
2023-03	2,020	578
2023-04	2,056	588
2023-05	2,076	594
2023-06	2,095	600
2023-07	2,114	605
2023-08	2,134	611
2023-09	2,153	616
2023-10	2,173	622
2023-11	2,192	627
2023-12	2,211	633
2024-01	2,231	638
2024-02	2,250	644
2024-03	2,273	651
2024-04	2,293	656
2024-05	2,277	652
2024-06	2,278	652
2024-07	2,279	652
2024-08	2,281	653
2024-09	2,298	658
2024-10	2,372	679
2024-11	2,457	703
2024-12	2,538	726
2025-01	2,629	752
2025-02	2,717	778
2025-03	2,805	803
2025-04	2,892	828
2025-05	2,978	852
2025-06	3,066	877
2025-07	3,153	902
2025-08	3,240	927
2025-09	3,314	948
2025-10	3,370	964
2025-11	3,370	964
2025-12	3,360	962
2026-01	3,354	960
2026-02	3,345	957
2026-03	3,343	957
2026-04	3,337	955
2026-05	3,328	952
2026-06	3,320	950
2026-07	3,307	946
2026-08	3,294	943
2026-09	3,276	938

Both denominators, and a third

Shares of the same 3,276each row a different wholelanding 12 Sept 2026

Denominator

Companies

Share

companies in the index

54,527,857

<0.01%

companies running anything in Web Servers

32,553,744

0.01%

companies running anything in General-purpose HTTP servers

28,322,087

0.01%

Three wholes, three shares of one count: a share travels with its whole, never alone. Against the last of them, lighttpd is rank 11 of 41 technologies in General-purpose HTTP servers.

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Catalogue record

As recorded in the cataloguetaxonomy release tax-2026.10last discovered 10 Sept 2026

An open-source, lightweight web server.

lighttpd is an open-source HTTP web server designed for efficient resource usage. It is maintained by the lighttpd project and used by developers and administrators to serve websites and applications.

Kindproduct

Vendorlighttpd project, lighttpd.net

PathInfrastructure and Hosting > Web Servers > General-purpose HTTP servers

Sluglighttpd

Deploymentself-hosted

Pricingfree

Open sourceyes

First discovered2019-10-04

Last discovered2026-09-10

Taxonomy releasetax-2026.10

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Subcategory answerGeneral-purpose HTTP serversCompanies running anything in General-purpose HTTP servers, 28,322,087 of 54,527,857 in the index, and the technologies ranked in it.Category answerWeb ServersThe category above this one, with its subcategories and the companies in each.CatalogueAll 8,177 technologiesRanked by the companies running them, with the publication gate named and the long tail drawn.