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
0
Open Page Rank 8+
3,549
1
Open Page Rank 7+
16,717
3
Open Page Rank 6+
34,686
4
Open Page Rank 5+
64,995
4
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
610,792
27
Japan
463,655
14
Russia
295,364
14
Germany
291,350
15
India
229,363
29
United Kingdom
211,733
15
Italy
188,318
14
Spain
179,475
11
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, 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.
Nginx to SimpleHTTP
| Domain | When |
|---|---|
| com-podkarpackie.com | Sep 2025 |
SimpleHTTP to Nginx
| Domain | When |
|---|---|
| comunicacionclara.com | Jun 2026 |