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 610,792

43,802

Japan 463,655

14,164

Russia 295,364

17,287

Germany 291,350

15,995

India 229,363

22,734

United Kingdom 211,733

13,939

Italy 188,318

10,355

Spain 179,475

10,521

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, 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.

All Nginx sites · All OpenResty sites