Google Web Server vs Nginx

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

Top sites by authority

Google Web Server · 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

Google Web Server · Nginx · share of sites in each country using one or the other

United States 326

610,792

Japan 118

463,655

Russia 118

295,364

Germany 184

291,350

India 264

229,363

United Kingdom 191

211,733

Italy 164

188,318

Spain 159

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 Google Web Server sites · All Nginx sites