Nginx vs thttpd
Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.
Top sites by authority
Nginx · thttpd · how many of each technology's sites sit in the web's highest authority tiers
Open Page Rank 9+
166
0
Open Page Rank 8+
3,527
0
Open Page Rank 7+
16,536
0
Open Page Rank 6+
34,324
1
Open Page Rank 5+
64,296
1
Open Page Rank scores 0 to 10 from the open web link graph; 9+ covers only a few hundred domains worldwide.
By country
Nginx · thttpd · share of sites in each country using one or the other
United States
596,712
8
Japan
458,423
3
Russia
300,315
2
Germany
286,070
6
India
227,220
3
United Kingdom
211,227
4
Italy
195,238
3
Spain
190,406
5
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | Nginx | thttpd |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 1.8 s | 1.2 s |
| INP | 75 ms | 75 ms |
| CLS | 0 | 0 |
| TTFB | 800 ms | 500 ms |
Median site's p75 values from the Chrome UX Report, Sep 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 thttpd
| Domain | When |
|---|---|
| sisenors.com | Jan 2026 |
thttpd to Nginx
| Domain | When |
|---|---|
| computerforums.net | Mar 2026 |