Apache Traffic Server vs Nginx

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

Top sites by authority

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

United States 1,309

610,792

Japan 163

463,655

Russia 100

295,364

Germany 339

291,350

India 396

229,363

United Kingdom 355

211,733

Italy 220

188,318

Spain 188

179,475

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 Traffic Server sites · All Nginx sites