Nginx vs SimpleHTTP
Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.
Top sites by authority
Nginx · SimpleHTTP · 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+
3,579
1
Open Page Rank 7+
16,914
4
Open Page Rank 6+
35,190
4
Open Page Rank 5+
66,018
6
Open Page Rank scores 0 to 10 from the open web link graph; 9+ covers only a few hundred domains worldwide.
By country
Nginx · SimpleHTTP · share of sites in each country using one or the other
United States
693,335
24
Japan
536,543
11
Russia
334,605
12
Germany
326,474
18
India
258,307
27
United Kingdom
242,230
15
Italy
220,742
17
Spain
208,101
14
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | Nginx | SimpleHTTP |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 1.8 s | 2 s |
| INP | 75 ms | 75 ms |
| CLS | 0 | 0 |
| TTFB | 800 ms | 700 ms |
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.
Nginx to SimpleHTTP
| Domain | When |
|---|---|
| com-podkarpackie.com | Sep 2025 |