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 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 610,792

7

Japan 463,655

3

Russia 295,364

2

Germany 291,350

5

India 229,363

3

United Kingdom 211,733

3

Italy 188,318

3

Spain 179,475

5

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, 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.

All Nginx sites · All thttpd sites