Hiawatha vs Nginx
Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.
Top sites by authority
Hiawatha · Nginx · how many of each technology's sites sit in the web's highest authority tiers
Open Page Rank 9+
0
166
Open Page Rank 8+
0
3,527
Open Page Rank 7+
0
16,536
Open Page Rank 6+
0
34,324
Open Page Rank 5+
0
64,296
Open Page Rank scores 0 to 10 from the open web link graph; 9+ covers only a few hundred domains worldwide.
By country
Hiawatha · Nginx · share of sites in each country using one or the other
United States
8
583,778
Japan
2
452,133
Russia
2
298,261
Germany
1
281,862
India
3
220,418
United Kingdom
1
204,186
Italy
1
186,865
Spain
2
186,046
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | Hiawatha | Nginx |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 1.5 s | 1.8 s |
| INP | 50 ms | 75 ms |
| CLS | 0 | 0 |
| TTFB | 600 ms | 800 ms |
Median site's p75 values from the Chrome UX Report, Oct 2026. Lower is better; green meets Google's "good" threshold. This describes the sites that use each technology, not the technology's own overhead.