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 598

693,335

Japan 233

536,543

Russia 215

334,605

Germany 400

326,474

India 334

258,307

United Kingdom 386

242,230

Italy 262

220,742

Spain 280

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 lighttpd sites · All Nginx sites