Apache Tomcat vs Nginx

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

Top sites by authority

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

United States 9,834

596,712

Japan 2,981

458,423

Russia 1,743

300,315

Germany 4,566

286,070

India 5,504

227,220

United Kingdom 4,441

211,227

Italy 4,080

195,238

Spain 4,102

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 Tomcat sites · All Nginx sites