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 693,335

49,893

Japan 536,543

15,900

Russia 334,605

19,990

Germany 326,474

17,998

India 258,307

26,277

United Kingdom 242,230

15,921

Italy 220,742

11,781

Spain 208,101

11,795

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, 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.

All Nginx sites · All OpenResty sites