IIS vs Nginx

Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.

Top sites by authority

IIS · Nginx · how many of each technology's sites sit in the web's highest authority tiers

Open Page Rank scores 0 to 10 from the open web link graph; 9+ covers only a few hundred domains worldwide.

By country

IIS · Nginx · share of sites in each country using one or the other

United States 117,730

596,712

Japan 17,328

458,423

Germany 31,200

286,070

Russia 9,443

300,315

India 58,829

227,220

United Kingdom 42,820

211,227

Italy 40,808

195,238

Spain 28,110

190,406

Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.

Real user performance

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.

Sites that switched

Domains that dropped one technology and adopted the other within about a year, data nobody else gives away free.

All IIS sites · All Nginx sites