Kestrel vs Nginx

Nginx is used by more websites in our catalog: 952 use Kestrel and 133,349 use Nginx.

Nginx sites have the higher median Ahrefs Domain Rating (Kestrel: 23, Nginx: 25).

Between 2026-06 and 2026-07, Kestrel went from 0.10% to 0.11% of all tracked sites, while Nginx went from 16% to 15%. Kestrel is gaining ground faster in our index.

0 websites in our catalog use both Kestrel 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.