A side-by-side comparison of two web servers, based on the 291,153 Web Server sites tracked by Site Stats Database.
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| Metric | Apache Tomcat | Nginx |
|---|---|---|
| Websites | 115 | 133,349 |
| Market share | 0.04% | 46% |
| Share of top 10K sites | 0.04% | 9.6% |
| Share of top 100K sites |
| 0.01% |
| 11% |
| Rank | #13 | #1 |
|---|
| Median DR | 54 | 25 |
|---|
| Average DR | 51 | 29 |
|---|
| Median keywords | 653 | 850 |
|---|
| Median referring domains | 1,047 | 315 |
|---|
| Median domain age | 21 yrs | 14 yrs |
|---|
| Average domain age | 20 yrs | 15 yrs |
|---|
| Average monthly traffic | 780,101 | 71,671 |
|---|
| Combined monthly traffic | 89,711,579 | 9,557,266,912 |
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Monthly snapshots of each segment, 2026-06 to 2026-07. Website counts move when our catalog grows; the share of tracked sites is normalized, so it only moves when real prevalence changes.
Websites
Share of tracked sites
Combined monthly traffic
115 websites · rank #13
Top industries
Top markets
133,349 websites · rank #1
Top industries
Top markets
Nginx is used by more websites in our catalog: 115 use Apache Tomcat and 133,349 use Nginx.
Apache Tomcat sites have the higher median Ahrefs Domain Rating (Apache Tomcat: 54, Nginx: 25).
Between 2026-06 and 2026-07, Apache Tomcat went from 0.02% to 0.01% of all tracked sites, while Nginx went from 16% to 15%. Apache Tomcat is gaining ground faster in our index.
0 websites in our catalog use both Apache Tomcat and Nginx.
Adoption is counted from Site Stats Database's own crawl; Domain Rating comes from Ahrefs and traffic from DataForSEO. Figures reflect the sites we track and refresh at least monthly.
Citation
Site Stats Database. "Apache Tomcat vs Nginx." Site Stats Database, July 1, 2026. https://sitestatsdb.com/technologies/web-servers/compare/apache-tomcat-vs-nginx
Site Stats Database tracks 115 websites using Apache Tomcat and 133,349 using Nginx, each enriched with full monthly traffic history, authority, keywords, referring domains, and the complete detected tech stack. We detect every web server by crawling each site's HTML, response headers, and DNS; traffic and SEO metrics come from DataForSEO and Ahrefs. Everything refreshes at least monthly.
See plans & pricing| English |
| 70 |
| 23,646 |
| 4,482 |
| 29 yrs |
| 1,177,317 |
| Apache Tomcat |
| destinationlighting.com | English | 53 | 67,659 | 7,835 | 21 yrs | 973,801 | Apache Tomcat |
| patrontequila.com | English | 73 | 15,948 | 4,736 | 27 yrs | 741,464 | Apache Tomcat |
| bestaccreditedcolleges.org | English | 65 | 130,194 | 4,454 | 5 yrs | 170,719 | Apache Tomcat |
| ancestrylibrary.com | English | 69 | 301 | 2,873 | 26 yrs | 155,109 | Apache Tomcat |
| dailylook.com | English | 49 | 3,451 | 2,511 | 19 yrs | 137,158 | Apache Tomcat |
| pepsico.info | 49 | 12,219 | 721 | 24 yrs | 107,758 | Apache Tomcat |
| dynabook.com | English | 76 | 4,775 | 9,251 | 27 yrs | 87,652 | Apache Tomcat |
| ign.es | Spanish | 77 | 4,888 | 11,335 | 75,205 | Apache Tomcat |
| English |
| 97 |
| 58,180,430 |
| 3,979,372 |
| 29 yrs |
| 383,786,862 |
| Nginx |
| harvard.edu | English | 93 | 3,845,102 | 714,396 | 41 yrs | 104,117,233 | Nginx |
| biblegateway.com | English | 91 | 965,722 | 185,253 | 28 yrs | 82,990,263 | Nginx |
| nasa.gov | English | 92 | 977,872 | 485,459 | 28 yrs | 82,000,277 | Nginx |
| steampowered.com | English | 92 | 1,309,334 | 252,706 | 25 yrs | 80,550,067 | Nginx |
| go.com | English | 92 | 913,868 | 604,602 | 28 yrs | 72,794,971 | Nginx |
| almanac.com | English | 84 | 932,777 | 73,599 | 31 yrs | 63,656,636 | Nginx |
| cuemath.com | English | 73 | 683,540 | 10,181 | 14 yrs | 61,215,857 | Nginx |
| recipetineats.com | English | 79 | 844,549 | 59,630 | 12 yrs | 55,020,972 | Nginx |