Google App Engine vs Nginx
Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.
Top sites by authority
Google App Engine · 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+
0
35,190
Open Page Rank 5+
0
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
Google App Engine · Nginx · share of sites in each country using one or the other
United States
633
693,335
Japan
367
536,543
Russia
182
334,605
Germany
392
326,474
India
498
258,307
United Kingdom
435
242,230
Italy
345
220,742
Spain
361
208,101
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | Google App Engine | Nginx |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 2.1 s | 1.8 s |
| INP | 100 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.