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The server tools we detect on new sites, ranked by how many use each. Part of Infrastructure.

Tools tracked
141
in Infrastructure
Sites
1,535,324
using at least one server tool
Leader
37%
nginx, of these sites
Above 1%
7
tools on more than 1% of them

What we found

  1. nginx leads, on 37% of the sites using a server tool, with LiteSpeed Web Server close behind on 26%.
  2. Only 7 of the 141 server tools we track run on more than 1% of these sites.

The leading server tools

# Movement Tool Country Share Bar Sites 90 days
1 – nginx High-performance open-source web server and reverse proxy that powers a large share of the public web. 37% 574,235
2 – LiteSpeed Web Server Commercial high-performance web server popular on managed WordPress hosting. 26% 397,283
3 – Apache Open-source web server from the Apache Software Foundation, and the original A in the LAMP stack. 18% 280,883
4 – Caddy Open-source web server with automatic HTTPS via Let's Encrypt out of the box. 12% 179,777
5 – OpenResty Nginx distribution with a built-in Lua scripting layer for high-performance dynamic web apps and gateways. 3.5% 53,752
6 – Envoy L7 proxy / service mesh data plane (Lyft / CNCF). 1.8% 27,884
7 – Microsoft IIS Windows Server web server, often paired with ASP.NET applications. 1.6% 24,406
8 – Varnish High-performance HTTP reverse proxy and cache used in front of dynamic web servers. 0.6% 9,463
9 – Uvicorn Lightning-fast ASGI server for Python frameworks like FastAPI, Starlette, and Django Channels. 0.3% 5,114
10 – Tengine Alibaba's nginx-based web server 0.2% 3,770
11 – Phusion Passenger Phusion Passenger app server for Ruby, Python, and Node.js 0.2% 2,910
12 ▲1 Kestrel Cross-platform web server for ASP.NET Core. 0.2% 2,617
13 – Gunicorn Python WSGI HTTP server commonly used to run Django, Flask, and FastAPI apps in production. 0.1% 2,239
14 ▼1 Google PageSpeed Module Open-source Apache and nginx module that automatically rewrites pages for performance. 0.1% 2,185
15 – Apache APISIX Open-source cloud-native API gateway built on top of nginx and Lua. 0.1% 1,769

Share is of the 1,535,324 sites using a server tool; a site can use more than one. Arrows compare each tool's rank among sites launched in September with August. The line is its share of new sites over 90 days. Showing the top 15 of 141.

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Recently launched products using server tools

Product Launched
Villa 19 Oct 2026
Kairos-experiment 19 Oct 2026
OUR Cloud 19 Oct 2026
Kernwise 19 Oct 2026
Selise Blocks 19 Oct 2026
LanBridge | Remote desktop and LanMate assistant 19 Oct 2026

Often built with

Other kinds of tool most often found on the same sites, leaving out the plumbing every site has (DNS, CDN, hosting).