Apache HTTP Server vs Phusion Passenger

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

Top sites by authority

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

United States 388,136

9,471

Germany 356,560

2,649

Japan 268,830

1,590

France 241,071

2,288

India 196,107

3,383

Brazil 167,215

2,080

Spain 165,938

2,138

United Kingdom 154,333

2,795

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 Phusion Passenger sites