IIS vs lighttpd

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

1,246,694
websites
vs
5,225
websites

Top sites by authority

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

Open Page Rank 9+ 50 2
Open Page Rank 8+ 1,251 23
Open Page Rank 7+ 4,874 58
Open Page Rank 6+ 9,276 88
Open Page Rank 5+ 15,469 122

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

By country

IIS · lighttpd · share of sites in each country using one or the other

United States 117,730 513
India 58,829 299
United Kingdom 42,820 319
Italy 40,808 227
Brazil 34,656 220
Canada 31,601 233
Germany 31,200 327
Türkiye 31,246 157

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

Real user performance

Metric IIS lighttpd
LCP 1.7 s 1.5 s
INP 75 ms 75 ms
CLS 0 0
TTFB 700 ms 600 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.

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