LiteSpeed vs Nginx

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

4,396,816
websites
vs
11,639,465
websites

Top sites by authority

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

Open Page Rank 9+ 15 168
Open Page Rank 8+ 233 3,549
Open Page Rank 7+ 871 16,717
Open Page Rank 6+ 2,027 34,686
Open Page Rank 5+ 4,745 64,995

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

By country

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

United States 84,795 610,792
Japan 35,043 463,655
India 123,292 229,363
Germany 26,110 291,350
Russia 7,130 295,364
United Kingdom 51,794 211,733
Brazil 75,601 170,633
Italy 32,095 188,318

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

Real user performance

Metric LiteSpeed Nginx
LCP 2.1 s 1.8 s
INP 75 ms 75 ms
CLS 0 0
TTFB 1000 ms 800 ms

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.

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