The primary function of a web server is to store, process and deliver web pages to clients. The communication between client and server takes place using the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP). Pages delivered are most frequently HTML documents, which may include images, style sheets and scripts in addition to text content.
At enlyft, we use sophisticated, patent-pending algorithms to track the use of various Web Servers products and technologies. We track 18 products in the Web Servers category, and have found 18,417,143 companies using these products.
Product |
Install base
# of companies we found using this product |
Market Share |
---|---|---|
Apache httpd | 12,104,171 | 65% |
nginx | 3,405,851 | 18% |
Litespeed | 2,000,289 | 10% |
IIS | 777,065 | < 5% |
Caddy Server | 41,423 | < 5% |
The Tengine Web Server | 35,730 | < 5% |
Sun ONE Web Server | 33,182 | < 5% |
Lighttpd Web server | 12,128 | < 5% |
Resin | 2,894 | < 5% |
Hiawatha | 2,317 | < 5% |
H2O Webserver | 862 | < 5% |
Cherokee | 600 | < 5% |
Oracle HTTP Server | 413 | < 5% |
JBoss Enterprise Web Server (EWS) | 158 | < 5% |
MAMP | 22 | < 5% |
Kestrel | 22 | < 5% |
Tomahawk | 8 | < 5% |
Key Focus Web Server | 8 | < 5% |