Nginx vs Starlet
Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.
Top sites by authority
Nginx · Starlet · 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+
3,579
2
Open Page Rank 7+
16,914
6
Open Page Rank 6+
35,190
19
Open Page Rank 5+
66,018
34
Open Page Rank scores 0 to 10 from the open web link graph; 9+ covers only a few hundred domains worldwide.
By country
Nginx · Starlet · share of sites in each country using one or the other
United States
693,335
44
Japan
536,543
100
Russia
334,605
9
Germany
326,474
48
India
258,307
36
United Kingdom
242,230
25
Italy
220,742
30
Spain
208,101
17
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | Nginx | Starlet |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 1.8 s | 1.5 s |
| INP | 75 ms | 75 ms |
| CLS | 0 | 0.15 |
| TTFB | 800 ms | 600 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.