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 42,667

9,471

South Korea 25,476

754

Czechia 25,453

648

India 22,436

3,383

Slovakia 22,904

365

Russia 17,569

1,438

Germany 15,296

2,649

United Kingdom 13,580

2,795

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, 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.

All OpenResty sites · All Phusion Passenger sites