Kestrel vs Nginx

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

Top sites by authority

Kestrel · 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

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

United States 8,015

693,335

Japan 1,406

536,543

Russia 1,022

334,605

Germany 2,719

326,474

India 3,169

258,307

United Kingdom 3,552

242,230

Italy 2,104

220,742

Spain 2,066

208,101

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, Jun 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 Kestrel sites · All Nginx sites