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 398,004

9,655

Germany 364,164

2,664

Japan 273,172

1,596

France 236,181

2,238

India 200,300

3,414

Brazil 172,780

2,119

United Kingdom 156,332

2,778

Spain 155,877

2,020

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, Aug 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