HHVM vs Nginx
Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.
Top sites by authority
HHVM · Nginx · how many of each technology's sites sit in the web's highest authority tiers
Open Page Rank 9+
1
168
Open Page Rank 8+
2
3,539
Open Page Rank 7+
4
16,613
Open Page Rank 6+
4
34,459
Open Page Rank 5+
5
64,564
Open Page Rank scores 0 to 10 from the open web link graph; 9+ covers only a few hundred domains worldwide.
By country
HHVM · Nginx · share of sites in each country using one or the other
United States
82
596,712
Japan
41
458,423
Russia
28
300,315
Germany
55
286,070
India
46
227,220
United Kingdom
48
211,227
Italy
43
195,238
Spain
39
190,406
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | HHVM | Nginx |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 1.7 s | 1.8 s |
| INP | 75 ms | 75 ms |
| CLS | 0 | 0 |
| TTFB | 800 ms | 800 ms |
Median site's p75 values from the Chrome UX Report, Sep 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.
Nginx to HHVM
| Domain | When |
|---|---|
| carvoeirohotels.com | Mar 2026 |