IIS vs Phusion Passenger

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

Top sites by authority

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

United States 121,069

9,655

India 60,068

3,414

United Kingdom 43,214

2,778

Italy 39,691

1,950

Brazil 35,276

2,119

Canada 31,780

2,709

Germany 31,791

2,664

Türkiye 31,323

1,245

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, 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.

All IIS sites · All Phusion Passenger sites