LiteSpeed vs Nginx

Nginx is used by more websites in our catalog: 43,161 use LiteSpeed and 133,349 use Nginx.

Nginx sites have the higher median Ahrefs Domain Rating (LiteSpeed: 15, Nginx: 25).

Between 2026-06 and 2026-07, LiteSpeed went from 5.4% to 4.9% of all tracked sites, while Nginx went from 16% to 15%. LiteSpeed is gaining ground faster in our index.

93 websites in our catalog use both LiteSpeed 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.