Microsoft HTTPAPI vs Nginx

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

8,000
websites
vs
11,457,706
websites

Top sites by authority

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

Open Page Rank 9+ 12 168
Open Page Rank 8+ 54 3,579
Open Page Rank 7+ 137 16,914
Open Page Rank 6+ 222 35,190
Open Page Rank 5+ 305 66,018

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

By country

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

United States 3,242 693,335
Japan 878 536,543
Russia 509 334,605
Germany 1,446 326,474
India 1,959 258,307
United Kingdom 1,705 242,230
Italy 1,151 220,742
Spain 1,202 208,101

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

Real user performance

Metric Microsoft HTTPAPI Nginx
LCP 1.8 s 1.8 s
INP 75 ms 75 ms
CLS 0 0
TTFB 700 ms 800 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.

Sites that switched

Domains that dropped one technology and adopted the other within about a year, data nobody else gives away free.

Microsoft HTTPAPI to Nginx

DomainWhen
coinswap.spaceFeb 2026
launtop.comDec 2025
hightopbio.comDec 2025
hoppypig.comSep 2025

Nginx to Microsoft HTTPAPI

DomainWhen
pizzadoughboys.comMar 2026
side-hotels.netSep 2025
brusselsapartments.orgSep 2025
hotel-tenerife.netSep 2025

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