LiteSpeed vs SimpleHTTP
Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.
Top sites by authority
LiteSpeed · SimpleHTTP · how many of each technology's sites sit in the web's highest authority tiers
Open Page Rank 9+
16
1
Open Page Rank 8+
238
1
Open Page Rank 7+
892
4
Open Page Rank 6+
2,084
4
Open Page Rank 5+
4,867
6
Open Page Rank scores 0 to 10 from the open web link graph; 9+ covers only a few hundred domains worldwide.
By country
LiteSpeed · SimpleHTTP · share of sites in each country using one or the other
India
142,798
27
United States
96,715
24
Indonesia
90,611
13
Poland
83,488
13
Brazil
81,829
18
United Kingdom
60,596
15
Türkiye
60,567
14
Vietnam
49,050
8
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | LiteSpeed | SimpleHTTP |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 2.1 s | 2 s |
| INP | 75 ms | 75 ms |
| CLS | 0 | 0 |
| TTFB | 1000 ms | 700 ms |
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.