Cowboy vs Nginx

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

Top sites by authority

Cowboy · 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

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

United States 3,150

610,792

Japan 752

463,655

Russia 386

295,364

Germany 1,174

291,350

India 1,531

229,363

United Kingdom 1,488

211,733

Italy 942

188,318

Spain 1,022

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 Cowboy sites · All Nginx sites