Mongrel vs Nginx
Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.
Top sites by authority
Mongrel · Nginx · how many of each technology's sites sit in the web's highest authority tiers
Open Page Rank 9+
0
168
Open Page Rank 8+
0
3,579
Open Page Rank 7+
1
16,914
Open Page Rank 6+
1
35,190
Open Page Rank 5+
1
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
Mongrel · Nginx · share of sites in each country using one or the other
United States
17
693,335
Japan
28
536,543
Russia
5
334,605
Germany
8
326,474
India
11
258,307
United Kingdom
8
242,230
Italy
8
220,742
Spain
11
208,101
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | Mongrel | Nginx |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 1.5 s | 1.8 s |
| INP | 75 ms | 75 ms |
| CLS | 0 | 0 |
| TTFB | 800 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.
Mongrel to Nginx
| Domain | When |
|---|---|
| onaka-labo.com | Oct 2025 |