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
168
Open Page Rank 8+
0
3,549
Open Page Rank 7+
0
16,717
Open Page Rank 6+
0
34,686
Open Page Rank 5+
0
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
Hiawatha · Nginx · share of sites in each country using one or the other
United States
8
610,792
Japan
2
463,655
Russia
1
295,364
Germany
2
291,350
India
3
229,363
United Kingdom
1
211,733
Italy
2
188,318
Spain
0
179,475
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | Hiawatha | Nginx |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 1.6 s | 1.8 s |
| INP | 50 ms | 75 ms |
| CLS | 0 | 0 |
| TTFB | 700 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 Hiawatha
| Domain | When |
|---|---|
| hotelsaopaulo.org | Sep 2025 |
| hotelescannes.net | Sep 2025 |