Apache HTTP Server vs IIS

Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.

9,380,411
websites
vs
1,246,694
websites

Top sites by authority

Apache HTTP Server · IIS · how many of each technology's sites sit in the web's highest authority tiers

Open Page Rank 9+ 88 50
Open Page Rank 8+ 2,463 1,251
Open Page Rank 7+ 11,758 4,874
Open Page Rank 6+ 25,301 9,276
Open Page Rank 5+ 49,150 15,469

Open Page Rank scores 0 to 10 from the open web link graph; 9+ covers only a few hundred domains worldwide.

By country

Apache HTTP Server · IIS · share of sites in each country using one or the other

United States 388,136 117,730
Germany 356,560 31,200
Japan 268,830 17,328
France 241,071 25,056
India 196,107 58,829
Brazil 167,215 34,656
United Kingdom 154,333 42,820
Spain 165,938 28,110

Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.

Real user performance

Metric Apache HTTP Server IIS
LCP 1.8 s 1.7 s
INP 75 ms 75 ms
CLS 0 0
TTFB 900 ms 700 ms

Median site's p75 values from the Chrome UX Report, Sep 2026. Lower is better; green meets Google's "good" threshold. This describes the sites that use each technology, not the technology's own overhead.

Sites that switched

Domains that dropped one technology and adopted the other within about a year, data nobody else gives away free.

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