lighttpd vs Nginx

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

Top sites by authority

lighttpd · 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

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

United States 520

610,792

Japan 175

463,655

Russia 180

295,364

Germany 342

291,350

India 294

229,363

United Kingdom 313

211,733

Italy 227

188,318

Spain 236

179,475

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 lighttpd sites · All Nginx sites