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What is the most common web server?
As of July 28, 2026 · census snapshot 2026-07-28
As of July 28, 2026, the most common Server header on the web is "cloudflare" at 21.83% of the 191.7 million responses that disclose one, ahead of "nginx" at 17.16% and "apache" at 14.92%, in the Defaults.Exposed census.
Share of HTTP responses that disclose a Server header. CDN front-ends (for example "cloudflare") mask the origin server behind them.
| Server header | Responses | Share of disclosed |
|---|---|---|
| cloudflare | 41,854,808 | 21.83% |
| nginx | 32,893,804 | 17.16% |
| apache | 28,608,372 | 14.92% |
| openresty | 11,805,926 | 6.16% |
| litespeed | 9,348,794 | 4.88% |
| squarespace | 8,751,286 | 4.56% |
| pepyaka | 7,865,007 | 4.10% |
| hcdn | 5,076,102 | 2.65% |
| namecheap-nginx | 4,786,941 | 2.50% |
| kestrel | 3,666,007 | 1.91% |
| vercel | 3,492,060 | 1.82% |
| microsoft-iis | 1,945,442 | 1.01% |
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Statistic current as of July 28, 2026. Recomputed from the live census each edition; the number on this page and the machine-readable twin always match. Please cite Defaults.Exposed and link this page.
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Permalink:https://defaults.exposed/stats/what-is-the-most-common-web-server · Machine-readable:top-web-server.json · Licence:open data
Methodology: how we grade the internet · Source data: defaults.exposed/data. Updated with each census edition.