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
168
Open Page Rank 8+
0
3,549
Open Page Rank 7+
0
16,717
Open Page Rank 6+
2
34,686
Open Page Rank 5+
2
64,995
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
610,792
Japan
2
463,655
Russia
3
295,364
Germany
5
291,350
India
1
229,363
United Kingdom
3
211,733
Italy
4
188,318
Spain
5
179,475
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | Cherokee | Nginx |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 1.3 s | 1.8 s |
| INP | 75 ms | 75 ms |
| CLS | 0 | 0 |
| TTFB | 600 ms | 800 ms |
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.