Apache APISIX vs Nginx

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

Top sites by authority

Apache APISIX · Nginx · how many of each technology's sites sit in the web's highest authority tiers

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

By country

Apache APISIX · Nginx · share of sites in each country using one or the other

United States 499

596,712

Japan 171

458,423

Russia 106

300,315

Germany 167

286,070

India 339

227,220

United Kingdom 193

211,227

Italy 127

195,238

Spain 156

190,406

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

Real user performance

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.

All Apache APISIX sites · All Nginx sites