Nginx vs OpenBSD httpd
Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.
Top sites by authority
Nginx · OpenBSD httpd · how many of each technology's sites sit in the web's highest authority tiers
Open Page Rank 9+
168
1
Open Page Rank 8+
3,549
4
Open Page Rank 7+
16,717
9
Open Page Rank 6+
34,686
14
Open Page Rank 5+
64,995
21
Open Page Rank scores 0 to 10 from the open web link graph; 9+ covers only a few hundred domains worldwide.
By country
Nginx · OpenBSD httpd · share of sites in each country using one or the other
United States
610,792
43
Japan
463,655
9
Russia
295,364
7
Germany
291,350
13
India
229,363
16
United Kingdom
211,733
14
Italy
188,318
9
Spain
179,475
7
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | Nginx | OpenBSD httpd |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 1.8 s | 1.3 s |
| INP | 75 ms | 50 ms |
| CLS | 0 | 0 |
| TTFB | 800 ms | 600 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.
Nginx to OpenBSD httpd
| Domain | When |
|---|---|
| cylocybe.co.uk | Feb 2026 |
OpenBSD httpd to Nginx
| Domain | When |
|---|---|
| alembicguitars.com | Jan 2026 |