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
3,549
Open Page Rank 7+
4
16,717
Open Page Rank 6+
4
34,686
Open Page Rank 5+
5
64,995
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
80
610,792
Japan
42
463,655
Russia
27
295,364
Germany
54
291,350
India
41
229,363
United Kingdom
50
211,733
Italy
41
188,318
Spain
39
179,475
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, 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.
Nginx to HHVM
| Domain | When |
|---|---|
| carvoeirohotels.com | Mar 2026 |
| be-hotels.com | Sep 2025 |
| hotels-in-casablanca.com | Sep 2025 |
| getmacauhotels.com | Sep 2025 |
| naples-apartments.org | Sep 2025 |