Nginx vs OpenResty

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

Top sites by authority

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

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

By country

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

United States 596,712

42,667

Japan 458,423

13,810

Russia 300,315

17,569

Germany 286,070

15,296

India 227,220

22,436

United Kingdom 211,227

13,580

Italy 195,238

10,042

Spain 190,406

10,675

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

Real user performance

Median site's p75 values from the Chrome UX Report, Sep 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.

All Nginx sites · All OpenResty sites