Apache HTTP Server vs Nginx

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

Top sites by authority

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

United States 388,136

596,712

Japan 268,830

458,423

Germany 356,560

286,070

India 196,107

227,220

France 241,071

174,433

United Kingdom 154,333

211,227

Spain 165,938

190,406

Russia 42,395

300,315

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 HTTP Server sites · All Nginx sites