Nginx vs WEBrick
Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.
Top sites by authority
Nginx · WEBrick · 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+
3,539
1
Open Page Rank 7+
16,613
4
Open Page Rank 6+
34,459
5
Open Page Rank 5+
64,564
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 · WEBrick · share of sites in each country using one or the other
United States
596,712
50
Japan
458,423
26
Russia
300,315
9
Germany
286,070
22
India
227,220
30
United Kingdom
211,227
26
Italy
195,238
20
Spain
190,406
19
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | Nginx | WEBrick |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 1.8 s | 1.6 s |
| INP | 75 ms | 75 ms |
| CLS | 0 | 0 |
| TTFB | 800 ms | 700 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.