IBM HTTP Server vs Nginx
Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.
Top sites by authority
IBM HTTP Server · 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+
2
3,549
Open Page Rank 7+
7
16,717
Open Page Rank 6+
13
34,686
Open Page Rank 5+
18
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
IBM HTTP Server · Nginx · share of sites in each country using one or the other
United States
192
610,792
Japan
113
463,655
Russia
39
295,364
Germany
93
291,350
India
122
229,363
United Kingdom
107
211,733
Italy
80
188,318
Spain
83
179,475
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | IBM HTTP Server | Nginx |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 1.7 s | 1.8 s |
| INP | 75 ms | 75 ms |
| CLS | 0 | 0 |
| TTFB | 500 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.