lighttpd

Category - Web Servers

lighttpd is open source web server that is optimized for speed critical environment.



We have discovered  53,427 live websites   are using lighttpd.

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Technology usage statistics

Websites using lighttpd:53,427 websites
Most popular in: Russia
Market position in Web Servers category:#21
Market share in Web Servers:0.10%
Most popular version:1.4.45

Technology adoption

Recent changes in lighttpd usage.
Websites that added lighttpd 1,539
Websites that dropped lighttpd 1,420
Websites that changed version of lighttpd  761

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Technology Information


Major Versions

  • 1.xx (58 subversions, 50,558 domains)

Website Distribution by Country

Number of websites using lighttpd
United States3,135 websites



Russia38,321 websites
Germany3,074 websites
France2,604 websites
Netherlands1,197 websites
GB602 websites
Czech Republic574 websites
Singapore507 websites
Poland436 websites
Japan280 websites

Website Distribution by TLD

Number of websites using lighttpd
.ru35,590 websites
.com4,448 websites
.xn--p1ai2,070 websites
.net1,646 websites
.de1,528 websites
.org1,146 websites
.fr1,072 websites
.nl766 websites
.pl413 websites
.cz413 websites

lighttpd Versions

sorted by popularity
1.4.4538,398 websites
1.4.591,473 websites
1.4.351,440 websites
1.4.631,043 websites
1.4.691,017 websites
1.4.55827 websites
1.4.82609 websites
1.4.54597 websites
1.4.28585 websites
1.4.79577 websites

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Top Websites Using lighttpd

A look at the most popular websites built with lighttpd
DomainCountryRankContacts
huffingtonpost.com United States771
shield.sitelock.com United States3,000
huffingtonpost.ca United States7,775
bailii.org GB7,900
lighttpd.net Germany7,930
strato-faq.de Germany8,061
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Alternative Technologies


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Apache: Total 14,574,852 domains found using Apache
Cloudflare Server: Total 7,645,170 domains found using Cloudflare Server
OpenResty: Total 4,065,545 domains found using OpenResty
LiteSpeed: Total 3,095,732 domains found using LiteSpeed
Pepyaka: Total 1,914,587 domains found using Pepyaka
IIS: Total 1,695,750 domains found using IIS
Kestrel: Total 790,230 domains found using Kestrel
Caddy: Total 733,952 domains found using Caddy
Microsoft HTTPAPI: Total 317,842 domains found using Microsoft HTTPAPI

FAQ

lighttpd falls under the category of Web Servers.
WebTechSurvey systematically indexes websites and their technologies. Users can find websites using lighttpd through the WebTechSurvey platform.
There are currently 59,613,103 live websites that use lighttpd.
lighttpd holds less than 0.1% market share in the Web Servers category.
The main competitors to lighttpd include Nginx, Apache, Cloudflare Server, and OpenResty.
lighttpd has a known security vulnerabilities: CVE-2025-12642, CVE-2018-25103, CVE-2013-4559, and CVE-2013-4508.