Cherokee vs Nginx
Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.
Top sites by authority
Cherokee · Nginx · how many of each technology's sites sit in the web's highest authority tiers
Open Page Rank 9+
0
166
Open Page Rank 8+
0
3,527
Open Page Rank 7+
0
16,536
Open Page Rank 6+
2
34,324
Open Page Rank 5+
2
64,296
Open Page Rank scores 0 to 10 from the open web link graph; 9+ covers only a few hundred domains worldwide.
By country
Cherokee · Nginx · share of sites in each country using one or the other
United States
10
596,712
Japan
2
458,423
Russia
3
300,315
Germany
5
286,070
India
2
227,220
United Kingdom
4
211,227
Italy
5
195,238
Spain
7
190,406
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | Cherokee | Nginx |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 1.2 s | 1.8 s |
| INP | 75 ms | 75 ms |
| CLS | 0 | 0 |
| TTFB | 500 ms | 800 ms |
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.