OpenResty vs Phusion Passenger

Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.

Top sites by authority

OpenResty · Phusion Passenger · 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

OpenResty · Phusion Passenger · share of sites in each country using one or the other

United States 43,802

9,655

India 22,734

3,414

South Korea 24,932

757

Czechia 25,029

622

Slovakia 22,400

367

Russia 17,287

1,422

Germany 15,995

2,664

United Kingdom 13,939

2,778

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 OpenResty sites · All Phusion Passenger sites