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
3,579
Open Page Rank 7+
0
16,914
Open Page Rank 6+
2
35,190
Open Page Rank 5+
2
66,018
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
11
693,335
Japan
3
536,543
Russia
2
334,605
Germany
5
326,474
India
4
258,307
United Kingdom
5
242,230
Italy
4
220,742
Spain
8
208,101
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | Cherokee | Nginx |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 1.4 s | 1.8 s |
| INP | 75 ms | 75 ms |
| CLS | 0 | 0 |
| TTFB | 700 ms | 800 ms |
Median site's p75 values from the Chrome UX Report, Jun 2026. Lower is better; green meets Google's "good" threshold. This describes the sites that use each technology, not the technology's own overhead.