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
3,539
Open Page Rank 7+
7
16,613
Open Page Rank 6+
13
34,459
Open Page Rank 5+
18
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
IBM HTTP Server · Nginx · share of sites in each country using one or the other
United States
193
596,712
Japan
110
458,423
Russia
41
300,315
Germany
95
286,070
India
120
227,220
United Kingdom
112
211,227
Italy
81
195,238
Spain
84
190,406
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | IBM HTTP Server | Nginx |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 1.6 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, 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.