Nginx vs Phusion Passenger

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

Top sites by authority

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

United States 693,335

10,916

Japan 536,543

1,936

Russia 334,605

1,565

Germany 326,474

3,118

India 258,307

3,869

United Kingdom 242,230

3,214

Italy 220,742

2,290

Spain 208,101

2,333

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 Phusion Passenger sites