lighttpd

Category - Web Servers

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


We have discovered  55,611 live websites   are using lighttpd.

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Technology usage statistics

Websites using lighttpd:55,611 websites
Most popular in: Russia
Market position in Web Servers category:#20
Market share in Web Servers:0.11%
Most popular version:1.4.45

Security vulnerabilites

Known security issues associated with lighttpd
PublishedCVETitleDomains
Jun, 2024CVE-2018-25103Use-after-free vulnerabilities in lighttpd <= 1.4.5044,738
Nov, 2013CVE-2013-4508lighttpd before 1.4.34, when SNI is enabled, configures weak SSL ciphers, which makes it easier for ...2,577
Nov, 2013CVE-2013-4559lighttpd before 1.4.33 does not check the return value of the (1) setuid, (2) setgid, or (3) setgrou...2,576
Feb, 2010CVE-2010-0295lighttpd before 1.4.26, and 1.5.x, allocates a buffer for each read operation that occurs for a requ...1,189
Oct, 2008CVE-2008-4359lighttpd before 1.4.20 compares URIs to patterns in the (1) url.redirect and (2) url.rewrite configu...525
Apr, 2007CVE-2007-1870lighttpd before 1.4.14 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a request to a file...23
Nov, 2025CVE-2025-12642HTTP Header Smuggling via Trailer Merge17
Mar, 2006CVE-2006-0814response.c in Lighttpd 1.4.10 and possibly previous versions, when run on Windows, allows remote att...1

Technology adoption

Recent changes in lighttpd usage.
Websites that added lighttpd 1,511
Websites that dropped lighttpd 2,624
Websites that changed version of lighttpd  967

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Major Versions

  • 1.xx (57 subversions, 52,741 domains)

Website Distribution by Country

Number of websites using lighttpd
United States3,184 websites


Russia39,810 websites
Germany3,412 websites
France2,666 websites
Netherlands1,190 websites
GB634 websites
Czech Republic562 websites
Singapore510 websites
Poland448 websites
Japan282 websites

Website Distribution by TLD

Number of websites using lighttpd
.ru36,987 websites
.com4,564 websites
.xn--p1ai2,127 websites
.de1,895 websites
.net1,670 websites
.org1,225 websites
.fr1,082 websites
.nl721 websites
.pl422 websites
.cz420 websites

lighttpd Versions

sorted by popularity
1.4.4539,970 websites
1.4.591,526 websites
1.4.351,497 websites
1.4.691,059 websites
1.4.631,058 websites
1.4.55884 websites
1.4.54626 websites
1.4.28589 websites
1.4.26574 websites
1.4.79570 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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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 60,836,597 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.