OpenResty vs SimpleHTTP
Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.
Top sites by authority
OpenResty · SimpleHTTP · how many of each technology's sites sit in the web's highest authority tiers
Open Page Rank 9+
31
0
Open Page Rank 8+
508
1
Open Page Rank 7+
1,681
3
Open Page Rank 6+
2,892
4
Open Page Rank 5+
4,539
4
Open Page Rank scores 0 to 10 from the open web link graph; 9+ covers only a few hundred domains worldwide.
By country
OpenResty · SimpleHTTP · share of sites in each country using one or the other
United States
43,802
27
Czechia
25,029
5
South Korea
24,932
10
India
22,734
29
Slovakia
22,400
4
Russia
17,287
14
Germany
15,995
15
Vietnam
14,913
9
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | OpenResty | SimpleHTTP |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 1.8 s | 2 s |
| INP | 75 ms | 75 ms |
| CLS | 0 | 0 |
| TTFB | 700 ms | 700 ms |
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.